Dennis Muren Interview: The Rancor
In this vintage interview, Dennis Muren of Industrial Light Magic talks about creating the memorable rancor creature from Return of the Jedi and how the original idea for bringing the monster to life didn t work. Dragonslayer, which Muren had just finished working on, used new GoMotion technology and had proved expensive; thus, there was an effort to keep the cost down for Return of the Jedi. George Lucas suggested creating the rancor as a man in a suit, and Phil Tippett had the idea of having one pe
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