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Blast it Biggs, where are you?

Update

Mark Hamill Speaks Out

From pages 23 to 24:

Mark Hamill, who hasn't yet seen the new edition, has editorial ideas of his own. He wishes Lucas would reinstate a deleted opening sequence, which pictured Luke in a Tatooine hangout with his pilot pal Biggs Darklighter. (It's described in Lucas' 1976 novelizaton but was cut and hasn't been resurrected for the reissue; another Biggs scene later in the movie has been reinstated.)

"Biggs eventually gives up his life to enable Luke to enter the Death Star ... The heroism of that act would be accentuated if that introduction was still in."

What you won't see Luke and Biggs at Toshi station. (Spelling from the Script in The Art of Star Wars)
What you will see Luke and Biggs talking with Red Leader. Both pictures from Ryan Silva's Compendium.

Garrick Hagon Reflects

(This portion of the article is noted as being contributed by James Swallow. My comments are in parenthesis.)
From page 29:

He mentions that Biggs' cape was a major point of conversation, and describes Mark Hamill's jokes when they met for a costume fitting. "He threw his arms around me and said 'You're my best buddy!', and it began to dawn on me that this might be an important role!"

So I did, and then I had to go back to George and say 'Look at my hair', and George said, 'What's the matter? You got your hair cut at the Academy, that's okay!' Then he gave me this wonderful flight helmet and said, 'What do you think? I think you've got the best one'. I wish I'd kept it!"

Hagon as Biggs Darklighter From Topps Star Wars card #243 (Green Set)

Bigg's first onscreen moments were originally to have been early on in the movie, in a cut scene where Luke visits some friends at Anchorhead, including one friend who was portrayed by actress Koo Stark. Here we would have seen Luke's first inklings of the "larger world" Ben Kenobi mentioned when Biggs confessed to him he was bound for the Rebel Alliance, imploring Luke to come with him. As fate would have it, the two would catch up to each other a lot quicker, meeting once again (in another excised moment) in the hanger bay on Massassi, just before the Rebels took off to attack the Death Star. During the battle, Biggs (with the characteristic black and yellow checkerboard helmet) took up Luke's wingman position, Red three. George Lucas decided that Biggs ealier scenes hampered the flow of the movie, so there were cut from the original film, and won't be included in the Special Edition.

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