Greedo

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Greedo
Star Wars character
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Greedo as he appears in Star Wars (1977)
First appearance
Created by George Lucas
Portrayed by
  • Paul Blake/Maria De Aragon (Episode IV)
  • Simon Rose/Oliver Walpole (Episode I, deleted scene)
Voiced by
In-universe information
Full nameGreedo Tetsu Jr. [1]
GenderMale
Occupation Bounty hunter
Affiliation Jabba the Hutt
Homeworld Rodia

Greedo Tetsu Jr. is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He was a Rodian bounty hunter from the Tetsu Clan and worked for crime boss Jabba the Hutt. Greedo's Huttese language is based on Quechua, the Inca language. [2] He appears in the first Star Wars film during a scene where he confronts and threatens Han Solo, only to be killed by Solo. The scene was later altered so that Greedo also shoots at Han, leading to the infamous fan controversy known as "Han shot first", which the character has since come to be most associated with.

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Greedo was portrayed in 1977 by Paul Blake, as well as Maria De Aragon for some close-in pickup shots in 1977, while a younger version of him was played by Simon Rose and Oliver Walpole in a deleted scene from the 1999 prequel film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace . The character has made appearances in a few other pieces of Star Wars media, including the 2008 animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the 2015 video game Star Wars Battlefront .

Appearances

Star Wars (1977)

Greedo is a Rodian bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars: A New Hope. [3] Jabba hires him to capture Han Solo, who purposefully jettisoned the Hutt's cargo during a smuggling mission while being boarded by an Imperial Star Destroyer. Greedo tracks his target to the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine, where Han attempts to persuade him that he will pay back Jabba, but Greedo demands the money up front. Han, who has just been promised a large payment by Ben Kenobi, responds that he doesn't have it with him but will pay soon. Greedo says Jabba is tired of Han's excuses and gloats that he's waited a long time to kill him, to which Han responds, “Yes, I’ll bet you have,” and quickly kills him first with a concealed blaster. [4]

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special depicts a being strikingly resembling Greedo in both species and clothing, known as "Bludlow". [5] Bludlow is seen at the Cantina, although no relation between Greedo and him is known, other than being both Rodians. Nevertheless, the bountyhunter Koh'Wa Phœur is also seen in the cantina in episode IV. In the special, they are portrayed as close friends.

A Rodian named "Ludlo" was described as the brother of Greedo during a 1978 marketing campaign. [6]

In 2014, The Star Wars Holiday Special, already of the lower "S-Canon" canonicity level, was declared non-canonical and part of the separate Star Wars Legends continuity, which takes place in a different universe. Despite this, Bludlow was recanonized with the 2018 novel Star Wars: Last Shot , a tie-in to the film Solo: A Star Wars Story , of the same year.

The Phantom Menace (1999)

In Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace , a young Greedo wrestles with a young Anakin Skywalker in a deleted scene set on Tatooine. The scene was shot to demonstrate the violence potential that would have led Anakin to become Darth Vader, but George Lucas decided that Anakin should have been completely good in Episode I, to begin his downfall to evil later.[ citation needed ]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010)

Greedo also appears in the 2010 Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Sphere of Influence". In this series, set 21 years before A New Hope, Greedo is hired by the Trade Federation to kidnap Baron Papanoida's daughters, Che Amanwe and Chi Eekway. He and his accomplices are ultimately foiled by Ahsoka Tano as well as the Baron and his son.

Other media

Portrayal

In Star Wars, Paul Blake played Greedo during the main shooting, while Canadian actress Maria De Aragon portrayed Greedo for close-in pick-up shots. Linguist Larry Ward performed the voice, speaking in a simplified form of Quechua, a South American language. [8] Tom Kenny provided the voice in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. [4] [9] British two-time Academy Award winning 'Dean of Special Effects' John Stears designed and built Greedo's articulated head and pyrotechnics for the infamous Han-Greedo scene in the first Star Wars film. [10]

Han shot first

In 2012, director George Lucas expressed his dissatisfaction with the Han-Greedo scene, believing that it depicts Solo, the film's supporting protagonist, as a "cold-blooded killer". [11] Lucas had altered the scene for the 1997 Special Edition re-release so that Greedo shoots first at Solo and misses, and then Solo returns fire, killing Greedo. [12] The scene was altered again for the 2004 DVD release so that the shots are fired at nearly the same time and so that Solo dodges Greedo's shot. [12] [13]

Some fans objected to the revisions to the original film, even generating an online petition demanding that the changes be retracted. [14] The primary objection to the revision is that it alters Han's initially morally ambiguous character, making his later transition from anti-hero to hero less meaningful. [15] [12] [16] Lucas stated in 2012 that Greedo has always shot first, and his revisions to the film only served to "clean up the confusion". [11]

The scene was altered again for the version of Star Wars released on the Disney streaming service, Disney+, on November 12, 2019. In this version, Greedo says a line transcribed by fans as "maclunkey" or "ma klounkee" before shooting at Han. The line may be a threat spoken in Huttese, as it is used that way by Sebulba in The Phantom Menace . [17] Additionally, the reverse shot of Greedo being shot was removed. The changes were made by Lucas before Disney acquired the Star Wars rights in 2012. [18]

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