The answer to the question is , “ No , of course not , that would be too random for words . ” However , it does transpire that he did instigate the visual look of Chewbacca in the original Star Wars movie through an interesting chain of events .
How it works is thusly : in July 1975 , Martin ’s short story ‘ And Seven time Never Kill Man ! ’ was published in Analog . Artist John Shoenherr create some artwork for the story which is understandably very Wookie - esque . In itself not solely damning , until it is revealed that Star Wars conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie was handed a written matter of this very picture by George Lucas ( who apparently had claimed it was from the 1930s , not just a few months in the beginning ) in late 1976 as part of his ideas for what Chewbacca would look like , as revealed atBinary Bonsai .
McQuarrie then developed this image into the final look for the Chewbacca character . A rather telling point that the original Shoenherr characterization was inspirational is that it has the alien using a weapon system that look very similar to Chewbacca ’s earmark bowcaster weapon , a point missing from McQuarrie ’s rendition , indicating the original was used as a reference by the prop department .
This is n’t the first clip that GRRM has inadvertently contributed to the creation of an iconic race without realise it . Fellow SF author Charles Stross ‘ borrowed ’ the name ‘ githyanki ’ from GRRM ’s ‘ Thousand Worlds ’ SF jell for a race of ogre he was creating for an prescribed dungeon and Dragons product in the late seventies . The name and the airstream caught on , becoming an iconic D&D race still present in the belated iteration of the plot . Martin was unaware of this until he was asked about it by a fan during the other 2000s .
Ran at Westeroshas hintedthat since the ursine alien race in Return of the Jedi who help contribute down the Empire was guess to be the Wookies but was replaced with something cuter and more marketable , we could possibly find fault GRRM for the concatenation of events that led to the creation of the Ewoks ( ! ! ! ) . Although Martin would probably prefer it if we did n’t .
[ via“>Binary Bonsai ]
This post by Adam Whiteheadoriginally appear at The Wertzone
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