Let's try this again:
I recently watched ANH, and for perhaps the first time ever I wondered "Why isn't Wedge at the rebel briefing"?
Well, apparently he is, but played by a different actor. He's the pilot sitting next to Luke, who says "That's impossible, even for a computer!". That actor was fired and then Denis Lawson was hired to play Wedge. And yet a third actor overdubbed the vocals for both.
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Wedge/Lawson would probably be better known if Lawson had been able to play him in the rebel briefing.
Also, if there had been a vintage Kenner "Wedge" figure.
(thank you Jarrett Crader for pointing out the spam comments in the original version of this post)
Noah Stevens yeah, Biggs, Camie and Fixer. They used to hang out at Anchorhead.
ReplyDeleteSome of the Tatooine scene dialogue was included in the Marvel Comics adaptation.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, I knew Biggs well from the Star Wars Storybook. It doesn't have all the scenes with Camie and Fixer, but it does have the Biggs & Luke on Tatooine scene, including movie stills of them together. Here it is:
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We'd probably know that actor by name (Garrick Hagon) if (1) that scene had been in the movie, and (2) he had an action figure with those stylish duds
ReplyDeleteThe character portrait in West End's Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope uses line art depicting the briefing room Wedge, though later portraits for the Thrawn-era Wedge show Lawson. I remember seeing the Biggs stills in the storybook, but the novelization also included lost scenes like that, Camie and Fixer, and, I think, Luke using his macrobinoculars to look up at the Star Destroyer in orbit wondering what was up.
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