Jabba the Hutt has appeared in three distinct forms since Star Wars: A New Hope. The character’s first version was a deleted 1977 scene featuring a human actor, Declan Mulholland, as a stand-in. In 1997, George Lucas restored the scene with CGI for the Special Edition, introducing a computer-generated Jabba that was widely criticized for poor visual quality. A refined CGI version followed in the 2004 DVD release, improving Jabba's textures and movements—this is the version still used in current

Did you know Jabba the Hutt wasn’t always the slimy slug-like creature we remember? In Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), Jabba was initially portrayed by actor Declan Mulholland, a human! He filmed a scene with Harrison Ford where Han Solo confronts him about unpaid debts in the Millennium Falcon hangar. At the time, George Lucas envisioned Jabba as a stop-motion creature but couldn’t achieve the desired effect with the available technology and budget. Mulholland stood in as a placeholder, deliverin