Donald Duck doesn’t wear them, but Chewbecca nearly did.
We’re talking about pants, of course,
New documentation shows that studio executives with 20th Century Fox originally pushed for Chewbecca to wear pants in the original Star Wars movie.
According to reports, they were concerned that the bandoleer worn by the tall character only highlighted his lack of clothing. They worried that this would cause issues with censors and the distribution of the film.
Actor Mark Hamill recalls memos from studio executives asking for Chewie to wear “pair of lederhosen.”
“All they could think of was, ‘This character has no pants on!’ This went back and forth. They did sketches of him in culottes and baggy shorts,” Hamill recalls.
So, do you think Chewie would have worked in pants or dressed in baggy shorts for a day at the beach? Or are you happy that George Lucas won this battle and Chewie doesn’t have pants?
Chewie didn’t need pants and until I read this article it had never occurred to me that he hadn’t been wearing any.
I think some people in this country are a bunch of prudes who see genitalia everywhere even when they don’t exist. I don’t know where Chewie kept his and I don’t care.
However, if it becomes an issue I guess Lucas can add some and mangle SW even more.
There were no genitals in science fiction until James Cameron made Avatar…Oh wait. My bad. “I was lucky that thing had knees. -That was not his knee.”
That would certainly explain the lack of restrooms in the future…
Babylon 5 had a head. And we saw it.
Yup. It did, but it is the exception that proves the rule.
Also it came after the knee line so… doesn’t exactly disprove my point 🙂