Thursday 11 October 2012

BEHIND THE SCENES: DEVIL WAMPA!


An in-development head for the fearsome snow beast, the Wampa, makes its striking presence felt in Stuart Freeborn's workshop at Elstree Studios in 1979, for THE EMPIRE SRIKES BACK.

Lucas's name for the creature may have been from a shortened version of the 'Wampanoags', a group of historical North American people from south-eastern Massachusetts. from his education in the anthropology field, perhaps?

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