As well as suffering from clinical depression and anxiety.
Spoilers Han's dice
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Yeah, he was even hospitalised for exhaustion after coming back to the states. It was a colossally stressful shoot for a number of reasons.
That said, I doubt at any point he was ever unclear on whether or not he intended to replace the Irish bloke wearing a fur coat in the desert with a (presumably not Irish) stop motion creature. That's a little too specific methinks.
Indeed, IIRC the whole point of putting him in that coat was to make the rotoscoping process a little more forgiving, as the idea was that Jabba would also be furry. Meaning you could afford to have an imperfect matte line because if the fur jacket on the original plate shows through behind the puppet, then they'd blend a lot easier than if the puppet was bald.
This is pretty evident in the digital Jabba versions of the scene as you can clearly tell in the walk and talk shot that the matte line gets very difficult for them to track, with the dark vest not contrasting at all well with the dark fur coat.
It's one of those oddities that the design decisions for RotJ made reintegrating that scene more difficult than if they'd stuck closer to the original design idea for Jabba.
That said, I doubt at any point he was ever unclear on whether or not he intended to replace the Irish bloke wearing a fur coat in the desert with a (presumably not Irish) stop motion creature. That's a little too specific methinks.
Indeed, IIRC the whole point of putting him in that coat was to make the rotoscoping process a little more forgiving, as the idea was that Jabba would also be furry. Meaning you could afford to have an imperfect matte line because if the fur jacket on the original plate shows through behind the puppet, then they'd blend a lot easier than if the puppet was bald.
This is pretty evident in the digital Jabba versions of the scene as you can clearly tell in the walk and talk shot that the matte line gets very difficult for them to track, with the dark vest not contrasting at all well with the dark fur coat.
It's one of those oddities that the design decisions for RotJ made reintegrating that scene more difficult than if they'd stuck closer to the original design idea for Jabba.
Yeah I don't think I've ever read how that comic version came about. My best guess is that Marvel were provided with a shooting version of the 4th draft (which included the Jabba scene) along with a bunch of (probably pre-reshoot) production photos, but nothing from the Jabba scene save the script. It may however have included this group photo from the Mos Eisley street shoot and they just decided to go with one of those guys on the right as Jabba.
And just for fun, this is how the stage directions in the script describe Jabba: -
Weirdly, the 3rd Draft seems to have the same description as the later 4th Draft revision, so the eye-stalks seem to have been something Lucas considered but later ditched.
The 2nd draft does seem to imply that he's hairy much like Chewie, only bulkier and mangy (though for context, in this draft he's not a mob boss but a pirate and Han's business partner, kinda): -
And just for fun, this is how the stage directions in the script describe Jabba: -
Interestingly this is a little less specific than an earlier revision of the 4th draft, which states: -
Weirdly, the 3rd Draft seems to have the same description as the later 4th Draft revision, so the eye-stalks seem to have been something Lucas considered but later ditched.
The 2nd draft does seem to imply that he's hairy much like Chewie, only bulkier and mangy (though for context, in this draft he's not a mob boss but a pirate and Han's business partner, kinda): -
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