But other than the face of Luke Skywalker, Foster had to be “nebulous” about the physical appearance of Chewbacca, who is only described as “a great hairy mass,” in the book. Altman’s oral history book Secrets of the Force (2021). “I had met Mark Hamill and knew what he looked like,” Foster revealed in Edward Gross and Mark A.
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And, as was a common practice at the time, Foster had to write the book version of Star Wars-all 220 pages of it-without seeing the movie or having any sense of what the characters even looked like. He’d written the novelization of the 1974 sci-fi movie Dark Star, as well as several Star Trek Log books, all of which adapted episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1974) into short stories. This meant that Alan Dean Foster’s Star Wars book, with George Lucas’s name on it, had an entire life of its own for half a year, before the Force was famous.Īs a science fiction writer in his own right, Alan Dean Foster was very familiar with the strange tap-dance of turning movies into books. 20th Century Fox initially wanted Star Wars in theaters for Christmas of 1976, but because of production delays largely connected to the incomplete visual effects, the film was pushed back to May 1977. The book hit shelves early because Star Wars, the film, was late. Even though the book came out before the movie, Foster was hired by George Lucas to write a tie-in novelization of Lucas’s screenplay. The film version of Star Wars is not secretly based on a 1976 book by Alan Dean Foster.
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