Por Theforce.net , os atores que você vê no cartaz são Mark Hamill e Carrie Fisher, embora muito estilizados.
O pôster que você mostrou ser um " reimaginar " (por exemplo, uma cópia) de um poster anterior desenhado por Tom Jung (veja abaixo). Os irmãos Hildebrand receberam o pôster de Jung, mas não os tiros na cabeça de Carrie Fisher e Mark Hamill, e pediram para transformá-lo em um conjunto de pôsteres de filmes coloridos.
"We had a problem with Carrie Fisher," noted Jung, "because they wanted to make her more glamorous. I got my wife to pose for the drawing, and I changed the hairdo and shoved the paint around until I came up with the figure you see now. Carrie Fisher's mother, Debbie Reynolds, loved the poster. She called David Weitzner at Fox's advertising department and asked if she could have the painting, so he asked me to do a duplicate painting, which is now hanging in Carrie Fisher's house. The original painting is at Skywalker Ranch." Cinefantastique Feb. '97 (by Lawrence French)
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They hired twins Tim and Greg Hildebrandt, who were well-known fantasy artists at the time, to paint their own take on the Jung design. “The reason they called us is because Tim and I had just done the Lord of the Rings calendar, and we had a fan following.” says Greg Hildebrandt. “We had come through literally overnight for them on a poster for Young Frankenstein. It wasn’t used, but we did it overnight, so they called us and said we need a poster fast.” Star Wars Poster Book
