Warwick Davis Would Love to Revive Cult Doc Return of the Ewok

While selling his new Disney+ sequence, Willow, which brings again a beloved character he first performed within the Nineteen Eighties, star Warwick Davis was requested about one other beloved character of his from that period, Return of the Jedi’s Wicket the Ewok. Specifically: mockumentary Return of the Ewok, shot behind the scenes of the Star Wars movie and by no means formally accomplished nor launched.

Speaking to Uproxx, Davis sounded enthusiastic concerning the thought of lastly releasing the doc. Shot by Jedi assistant director David Tomblin, it follows the actor as a younger teen, taking part in a fictionalized model of himself as he will get into character, and was apparently supposed for use for promotional functions—form of a precursor to the Blu-ray extras we’re so used to seeing immediately. But Davis additionally cautioned that it’s not so simple as him asking Lucasfilm to dig the footage out of storage and slapping it on Disney+.

“I think the challenge with Return of the Ewok is that so many people gave their time, there are these wonderful cameos in there, crew gave time during lunch hours to make it, and nobody ever signed off on their involvement,” he told Uproxx. “So, for some kind of lawyer, it’d be a massive amount of work to get everyone signed off so that we could actually use it commercially, I suppose.”

Still, Davis sounds wistful on the chance. “I wrote an autobiography, and in that book I put little screenshots from the film, Return of the Ewok, as like a comic book kind of thing, telling the story for people who haven’t seen it,” he stated. “But it really is one of those found in the attic kind of creations, isn’t it, in its very raw form? There’s unfinished sound, the print is very rough, but I think that’s one of the charms of it, really.”

As with all issues Star Wars, at the very least, we are able to at all times have hope. Willow’s two-episode premiere is now streaming on Disney+.

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