The Evolution of Jabba the Hutt - Original Concepts, Alternate Depictions, and More! 

Yeah that would be great. Just so Diego can touch him.

I want that to happen so we can hear Cassian calling him "Yabba" in-universe

I want to see him feel Jabba up, and everyone there is just silent when it happens.

yabba*

I haven’t watch the video yet but excuse me

I mean he has the structure of a gigantic bean bag with arms. In fact, I had a gigantic bean bag when I was a kid that was filled with foam instead of beans, and I always imagined if Jabba wasn't slimy with a lizard like texture that he would be the kind of thing you could just chill on its belly kind of like how the little girl lays on Totoro.

I have to agree with that. While a lot of people see it as excess and George Lucas meddling with the film, I see it as integral to building Han's character as an outlaw and to show the reason why he was frozen in carbonite and taken away by Fett in Empire Strikes Back.

@Lefty Gurl The development and evolution of that scene being created is certainly an interesting story in it of itself. But the actual scene is mostly unnecessary and redundant to the story. All the story beats that are talked about within the scene were already explained in the Han and Greedo scene. It also takes away the mystery of who Jabba is before seeing him in Return of the Jedi as well as seeing the Millenium Falcon for the first time. Which is a mystery that’s worth retaining. On a technical level, it’s very cool seeing Jabba the Hut being out and about slithering on the ground away from lying on the bed in his palace. But at the same time when Han walks behind Jabba and steps on his tail, there’s artificial motion blurring of Han moving up and down that has not aged particularly well. There’s also a continuity error in the editing of shots in which Chewie is on screen holding his weapon and making sure Han’s conversation doesn’t go south. The exact spot where Chewie is standing changes from two different shots.

Totally agree! I really enjoyed that book.

And for the years between first reading the comic and the release of Episode VI, I would see the original alien character in the Mos Eisley street scene and think, "That's Jabba!"

this species was also in TCW

I thought he was always from Naboo

А у Хана Соло есть «осторожно, злая Собакка».

Declan Mulholland was acting very sparingly by that time and he died in 1999.

Agreed! Both about McQuarrie's original designs and the overall quality of the storytelling and voice acting on Rebels!

I can't remember right now, but I think Alex (or Ecklart Ladder) did a video about all the references in Rebels, there's A TON of Ralph McGuirre original artwork.

Thank you! I was surprised that I had to scroll this far down to see someone point that out. Greedo is inspired by actor Peter Lorre, who was also in Casablanca. I've always found the comparison of their characters in The Maltese Falcon to be a bit more apt.

I see it as just Han being sarcastic.

Probably ALL species have a history of calling "decent" individuals shining examples of their species. We have words like "humanitarian" and "humane" and Han’s phrase. You might imagine Admiral Ackbar saying to Leia, "Princess, you are a wonderful Mon Calamari" as a way to honor her. In Han’s case it seems to be passive aggressive because, it technically is an honoring phrase, but Hutts consider themselves superior to humans.

@@Daniel-Strain Or Jabba was originally intended to be human. Which would explain why the actor is wearing a costume

@@festo8756 well duh. I'm talking about an in-universe explanation lol.

@@Daniel-Strain There isn't one that would make sense

Those old comics were pretty goofy but they really do give you the best idea what the original edit of the film would have played like.

@@joncarroll2040 The differences between the comic adaptation and the film caused me a lot of confusion when the first film finally hit HBO or whatever channel it was, since I'd only seen the film once or twice before ESB came out, but had read the comicbook so many times. I was like "where did This Scene go? Where is Jabba? What happened to the other scenes with Biggs?" I had no concept at the time of how stuff could be cut out of a film, it was just not something that had occurred to me yet.

I don't think it's quite true, though there was one comic where Luke meets someone who once met Obi-Wan, Darth Vader and "the man who carried that lightsaber" (obviously meant to be Luke's father.) Years later, an EU writer actually fixed this continuity flub that explaining that the third guy was actually another jedi who had borrowed Anakin's lightsaber because of reasons.

Uh... it's in the video?

@@AlfonsoSRT It's not. There's concept art of human Jabba. Not one drawing of Jabba as an alien. If George always intended for Jabba to be an alien how do you explain that?