JamesG
02-17-2011, 02:28 PM
Remaking Wookiee: Chewbacca Becomes a Character on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"
By DAVE ITZKOFF
February 17, 2011
Chewbacca, the wild and wooly Wookiee who fought at Han Solo’s side through the three original Star Wars movies, will appear in the two-part season finale of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars", the Cartoon Network animated series, with some assistance from Peter Mayhew, the actor who has portrayed Chewbacca in George Lucas’s live-action films.
“The powers that be needed Wookiees,” Mr. Mayhew said in a recent telephone interview from California, “and they found, right, ‘There’s a Wookiee waiting. We’ll see if he’s available.’ We were available.”
Though Lucasfilm Animation is keeping specific plot details under wraps, the "Clone Wars" finale, scheduled for April 1, will see Chewbacca cross paths with Ahsoka Tano, the Jedi apprentice to Anakin Skywalker (a k a the future Darth Vader).
Lucasfilm hasn’t said yet if Chewbacca will return for future episodes of "The Clone Wars", but Mr. Mayhew said he was happy to have been so closely associated with the character for nearly 35 years.
“I always reckon that I’ve got the best job in the world,” he said, “purely because I know what I’m talking about, it’s a pleasure to talk and you get paid for doing it. So that can’t be bad, can it?”
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/remaking-wookiee-chewbacca-becomes-a-character-on-star-wars-the-clone-wars/
By DAVE ITZKOFF
February 17, 2011
Chewbacca, the wild and wooly Wookiee who fought at Han Solo’s side through the three original Star Wars movies, will appear in the two-part season finale of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars", the Cartoon Network animated series, with some assistance from Peter Mayhew, the actor who has portrayed Chewbacca in George Lucas’s live-action films.
“The powers that be needed Wookiees,” Mr. Mayhew said in a recent telephone interview from California, “and they found, right, ‘There’s a Wookiee waiting. We’ll see if he’s available.’ We were available.”
Though Lucasfilm Animation is keeping specific plot details under wraps, the "Clone Wars" finale, scheduled for April 1, will see Chewbacca cross paths with Ahsoka Tano, the Jedi apprentice to Anakin Skywalker (a k a the future Darth Vader).
Lucasfilm hasn’t said yet if Chewbacca will return for future episodes of "The Clone Wars", but Mr. Mayhew said he was happy to have been so closely associated with the character for nearly 35 years.
“I always reckon that I’ve got the best job in the world,” he said, “purely because I know what I’m talking about, it’s a pleasure to talk and you get paid for doing it. So that can’t be bad, can it?”
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/remaking-wookiee-chewbacca-becomes-a-character-on-star-wars-the-clone-wars/