Star Wars: Mark Hamill Recalls the Daffy Duck Cartoon George Lucas Wanted Shown Before Screenings
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Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century to screen ahead of showings of
Star Wars: A New Hope to get audiences in the right frame of mind for the adventure. The animated short, which was a riff on
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, would bring with it an inherent sense of playfulness to alert audiences that the film they were about to see was meant to embrace that spirit of adventure without being too serious.
"George really did want this classic Daffy Duck cartoon shown before every screening of [Star Wars]," Hamill shared on Twitter. "It would've been an icebreaker to let the audience know what was coming was less than dead serious. I was disappointed when we couldn't get the rights to it & it didn't happen."