Return of the Jedi storyboard artist talks Star Wars, Hollywood

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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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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