Peter Mayhew on EpIII - Potentially HUGE spoiler

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-06-10 07:59pm

Some TFNet dude wrote:
I attended the Walt Disney Star Wars Weekend at MGM Studios, Orlando, on Sunday the 8th of June. The celebrity guests were Jeremy Bullock and Peter Mayhew. At 2pm they had a 'Questions and Answers' session with the two stars. About 200 people attended inside the ABC on-site cinema. Anyway, out of this session came this very VERY interesting piece of info from Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in EP3).

He confirmed he will be returning as Chewbacca. The interviewer, whos name was Brian Stone I believe, pushed Mayhew a little further into what Chewies role will be in Episode 3. Mayhew seemed pretty uncomfortable at that point, sitting forward in his chair. In a much quieter voice he announced to the audience, and this is almost a straight quote as me and my partner remember it, "Chewbacca rescues and delivers the two children to Ben Kenobi". He then sat back in his chair and refused to commit any more.

So I hope this is of some interest to you. And as we wondered the park that afternoon, one thing seemed to back up Mayhews info. Chewbacca and Obi-Wan Kenobi seem to already know each other in the Cantina in A New Hope. Perhaps this falls into place? What other reason would Chewie be in EP3 if not to show a connection to Kenobi?

I think it's bullshit. Comments?

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-06-10 08:02pm

According to http://www.starwars.com and http://galactic-voyage.com/Galactic%20News.htm Chewie will be in a fight scene.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-06-10 08:37pm

Even if GL had that in mind now, he might change his mind before the movie is made. I think people underestimate the fluidity of GL's writing process, and it's too early to make any predictions on this movie.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-06-10 09:15pm

I have a feeling that he's just fucking with the fanboys.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-11 03:03pm

I hope he doesn't appear like that, delivering Luke and Leia? Pee-yooo!

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-11 03:08pm

Presumably, we won't even know who Amidala's kids are until TESB. It would kinda fuck everything up if we knew in Ep3.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-11 03:20pm

Howedar wrote:Presumably, we won't even know who Amidala's kids are until TESB. It would kinda fuck everything up if we knew in Ep3.

I don't think you are meant to see the prequels before the OT. Otherwise you would already know about the Skywalker connection and since Amidala is already his wife...

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-06-11 03:29pm

Hey, people said Dooku hired Sebolba to kill Anakin before AOTC came out...

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-06-11 04:14pm

It's been updated:

an update wrote:UPDATE
We did some digging and some cross-referencing of the information we were given and found out there might not be as much to be excited about as we originally thought.

Only a select few people have seen the script - and at this point we highly doubt that Peter is on that short list. While he may have been told about his scenes, we're confident he's been told he is in and not much more. In addition to that other people there assured us the above report was not entirely accurate - in reality Peter said nothing of the kind and that the report was based on either something grossly misheard or misinterpreted when Peter talked about Chewbacca babysitting Han and Leia's twins in the early expanded universe novels.

Truthfully, I'm more excited that it's not gonna happen... sounded kinda corny.

Chewie probably shouldn't meet Obi-Wan in Ep3... after all, in ANH, Chewie says something and Han replies with "You said it, Chewie," then, speaking to Luke, "where did you dig up that old fossil?" Sounds like Chewbacca and Han were joking Obi-Wan.