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...Episode III, which starts production this summer in Australia. Peter Mayhew, the 7-ft. 3-in. English actor who donned the Wookiee suit for the first three Star Wars films--and has been signing autographs at conventions ever since--will again play the brawny warrior from the planet Kashyyyk. Lucas has said that Episode III, due for release in 2005, will be the last Star Wars movie. Cue Chewie's mournful roar...
...noises never before heard on earth. To find a voice for Chewbacca, reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, Burtt combined bears growling, a walrus grunting, a seal barking, a tiger roaring and a lizard-a big lizard-hissing. The result, as anybody who has ever traveled to the planet Kashyyyk knows, is pure Wookie. For Darth Vader, Lucas wanted a sinister sound. Burtt put a tiny microphone inside a scuba tank regulator and found what Lucas wanted: the sound of labored, but mechanical breathing. "The biggest dilemma," he says, "is always to create a sound which sounds familiar...
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