Chewie, a movie on the making of Star Wars, in the works
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:26AMEW.com reports that a screenplay is doing the rounds in Hollywood about the making of Star Wars as seen from the vantage-point of Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca. EW.com interviews the authors. Here's an excerpt:
Do you worship the Star Wars universe the way that a lot of fans do, or were you able to tackle this assignment from an objective point of view?
VR: I think it’s pretty hard to be objective about Star Wars. To a lot of people, including us, it’s the greatest movie ever made. It’s such a huge part of our childhood and of everyone’s that we kind of adore it.ES: There are some people who are bigger Star Wars fans then us, who know the whole extended universe and have read all of the novels. But I can’t even count how many time we’ve seen the original trilogy. I saw all of the movies in one weekend when I was a kid. I saw the first one, and I was like, “There’s more of this?” I think I started watching the first one again that same weekend.
Does your script feature all the players that we would expect to see in a movie about the making of Star Wars?
VR: Yes. They’re all characters. They all appear and play important roles in Peter’s life and in the script. The relationship between Peter Mayhew and Carrie Fisher is something that people have really grabbed a hold of. Something that’s true is that they used to have lunches at the chinese restaurant near the set. She would still be in costume and he was about 7-foot-three, so they kind of really stand out in the middle of this chinese restaurant.Oh, this is going to be so much fun to cast.
ES: Exactly.