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The Boogeyman had to remove a Star Wars lightsaber
The Boogeyman director Rob Savage has revealed that they had to remove a Star Wars lightsaber as a key prop from the movie.
The new Stephen King horror adaptation focuses on two sisters (played by Yellowjackets' Sophie Thatcher and Obi-Wan Kenobi's Vivien Lyra Blair) who are reeling from the death of their mother, and allow in a desperate patient that brings in a terrifying entity.
Blair originally broke out last year as the young Princess Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Savage explained that her initially secret involvement in the Star Wars show wasn't unveiled until after they had cast the movie, meaning an original idea had to be scrapped.
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"The interesting thing about that, especially with the Princess Leia of it all, was that in the original script, she had a toy lightsaber instead of a moon ball that she would hold close to her in bed," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
"That is what I used to sleep with as a kid, and the whole idea was that it was a knockoff lightsaber that started to fritz out when the creature was near and eventually shattered."
Savage explained that Disney "didn’t want an image in the movie of young Princess Leia with a shitty knockoff lightsaber fritzing out in her hand," leading to a change of prop.
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"So they said no and that we had to come up with something else, and so me and the production team desperately searched for kids’ toys that glow," he continued.
"And then we found this moon ball that we thought would be a great prop, and so we rewrote the scenes, which ended up being some of the scariest, best scenes in the movie."
Savage added: "When things like that happen, it always seems to be for the better."
The Boogeyman is out now in cinemas.
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