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Anybody else ever hear of any cast or crew address this or any missing footage? Blast it Biggs, where are you? UpdateWhen I receive Issue #35 of Star Wars Insider I will be adding much more. Stay tuned....Mark Hamill Speaks OutEntertainment Weekly, Issue #361, January 10, 1997, has a cover story on the Star Wars Special Edition. Mark Hamill has an interesting quote reguarding the Biggs Darklighter footage.
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.)
Garrick Hagon ReflectsStar Wars Insider, Issue #32, Winter 1997, has a article covering many of the actors who played Rebel pilots in the trilogy. Garrick Hagon, who played Luke's boyhood friend, Biggs Darklighter, discusses many things.
(This portion of the article is noted as being contributed by James Swallow. My comments are in parenthesis.) 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!"(Hagon discusses having to get his hair cut while acting in A Bridge Too Far and then having to go back and face George Lucas.) 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!" I have read the script and I don't exactly recall Biggs asking Luke to leave with him. He only asks if Luke is headed for the Academy.
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