Richard Miller, the Industrial Gentle and Magic sculptor that helped create Princess Leia’s gold bikini costume for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, has died. He was 80.
Miller’s shut good friend and colleague Fon H. Davis confirmed the information in an Instagram put up.
“I’m heartbroken to listen to my good friend, colleague and extremely gifted sculptor, Richard Miller has handed away,” he captioned. “I’m grateful to have had the chance to work, snort, and be grumpy, at instances, with him. I actually admire having this image Marrianne Heath despatched me final Christmas. That’s the smile I like to recollect. I additionally miss Grant very a lot in the present day. We’d have gotten collectively to recollect Richard. Hug your pals in the present day.”
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Nearly a yr in the past, Miller had taken to Twitter to share a tidbit from the Princess Leia bikini saying, “I sculpted the Princess Leia bikini again in 1981 for Return of the Jedi. Enjoyable truth: It was fairly uncomfortable on Carrie so I glued leather-based to the inside so she might transfer round extra freely.”
Miller has an extended record of credit for all of the work he did in Hollywood movies all through his profession. His work was utilized in movies like Willow (1988), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Indiana Jones and the Final Campaign (1989), Physique Wars (1989), Again to the Future Half II (1989), Again to the Future Half III (1990), Backdraft (1991), Rocketeer (1991), Hook (1991) and Demise Turns into Her (1992).
Different motion pictures his work was featured in had been The Flintstones (1994), Child’s Day Out (1994), The Masks (1994), Casper (1995), Congo (1995), Jumanji (1995), Mission Unimaginable (1996), Spawn (1997), Flubber (1997).
Miller returned to the Star Wars universe when his sculptures had been used within the three prequels of the saga. His credit additionally included movies like The Mummy (1999), House Cowboys (2000), A.I. Synthetic Intelligence (2001), Planet of the Apes (2001), Hulk (2003) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).
A few of his final work was on the Pirates of the Caribbean sequence of movies.
