A major plot gap in the original 1977 film has had 'Star Wars' fans debating for decades.
By Kyle Swenson Kyle Swenson Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow May 3 at 5:12 AM The announcement on Thursday that Peter Mayhew, the British-born actor who originally played Chewbacca in the beloved “Star Wars” franchise, had died earlier in the week shook up the science fiction and cinema worlds. The first on-screen Wookiee died Tuesday at the age of 74.
The book, “Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker,” which was released six months before the film, was written by a ghostwriter who took the story’s basics from “Star Wars” creator George Lucas’s own original drafts of the script. A 1974 script draft, using an older spelling for Chewbacca’s race, also explicitly says that “Han presents Chewbacca and a delegation of Wookees with a treaty, gifts, and a medal of honor.”Mayhew had his own theories.
“Chewbacca wasn’t given a medal because medals don’t really mean much to Wookiees. They don’t really put too much credence in them. They have different kinds of ceremonies,” Lucas said. “The Wookiee Chewbacca was in fact given a great prize and honor during a ceremony with his own people. The whole contingent from the Rebel Alliance went to Chewbacca’s people and participated in a very large celebration. It was an honor for the entire Wookiee race.
Although the canon comic settles once and for all that Chewbacca received a medal, there is still no clarity on how or when he got it, or why he was so conspicuously left out in the iconic “Star Wars” ceremony scene. The debate still rages following Mayhew’s death this week.
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