Sure, John Wayne's Westerns were a big influence on the Star Wars' story, but his connection to the franchise goes deeper than that.
The Big Picture It's no secret to anyone how John Wayne influenced the original Star Wars. Just look at the whole Wild West vibe in Tatooine and other Outer Rim planets, or the way Harrison Ford imprinted an aura of cowboy coolness in Han Solo, and his dynamics with his sidekick Chewbacca .
The Duke Has a Secret Cameo in the Original 'Star Wars' How can you think of a desert planet and not populate it with Western-inspired lore? Well, Star Wars goes a little beyond that, really, as the Duke has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in A New Hope, something revealed by legendary sound engineer Ben Burtt himself a few years back, in Star Wars Celebration IV in 2007.
The realization came when Burtt was working on Attack of the Clones, looking for inspiration for the voice of Poggle the Lesser , who's an insectoid. The only other insectoid character before him was Garindan, and Burtt remembered how he did it by going through his notes at that time: As Burtt revealed this information only in 2007, it's likely that Wayne never knew about his part in A New Hope. He died in 1979, two years after the movie came out. Officially, his last role was in The Shootist, which came out a year before the original Star Wars. He's uncredited for Garindan's voice in the movie, but that's also not his last contribution to the franchise...
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