The Movie Blog has an interview with Return of the Jedi storyboard artist David Russell. The interview is interesting, of course, but the real prize here are a series of storyboards that make the Emperor look like something out of a Stephen King novel. Russell also worked on Red Tails and the 1989 Batman.
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1 Stooge // Apr 24, 2012 at 12:07 pm
One of the things I’ve always wondered about is why Ralph McQuarrie’s version of the Emperor changed. Originally he painted this:
http://starwars.com/img/news/ralph_mcquarrie_remembered/24.jpg
But then at some point he redid it as this:
http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/starwars/wallpapers/ralph-mcquarrie-the-emperor.jpg
Were there plans at some point to make the Emperor super-creepy?
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