She may look and feel like an entirely new creation, but the seeds of what became L3-37 were planted years ago by the maker himself, George Lucas. The filmmaker gallery and storybook that accompanies the Target version of the home video release sheds light on this, and We Got This Covered take a closer look.
In a new Target exclusive art book for the Han Solo spin-off movie, it was revealed that the L3-37 droid’s activist streak was a notion conceived by the producer several years before this latest run of films hit our screens.
It makes you wonder if Lucas had anymore ideas that are still waiting to come our way in some future outing.
The way it reads is that this would have been from the post-The Phantom Menace and pre-Attack of the Clones era, which of course was littered with automated droids. After the Trade Federation switched off all of the droids at the end of the Battle of Naboo, and every battle droid was deactivated near the finale of Revenge of the Sith it’s no wonder droids like L3-37 came to be.
