George Lucas Reportedly Has Secret Cameos in Recent Star Wars Films

George Lucas reportedly has been featured in some of the recent Star Wars movies in a unique way. Sources for ABC News say that Lucas's scream appears in the films, which was originally recorded for American Graffiti – the filmmaker's last movie before Star Wars. When The Last Jedi came out, Matthew Wood, a supervising sound editor from Skywalker Sound, said to ABC News that the Wilhelm Scream has been officially retired from Star Wars. He said a new scream has been created that's been featured in The Last Jedi, Rogue One and other non-Star Wars movies. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=all-the-major-new-aliens-in-the-modern-star-wars-movies&captions=true"] Two years later, ABC reports that the new scream is "The George." Wood didn't confirm that the scream was from Lucas, but he and sound designer David Acord said that the new scream is featured in The Rise of Skywalker. Acord said he made over 2,000 sound effects for The Rise of Skywalker, which didn't all make it into the movie. He also created the sounds of The Child in The Mandalorian. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-wars-every-jedi-and-every-sith-ever&captions=true"] In the same interview, the sound designers said the sounds of the Orbacks – which were the giant, hairy, four-legged creatures with tusks that Jannah and her crew were riding on – are "90% pitched, slowed down crow" with some donkey thrown in there. A sound effect he didn't have to make was the voice of the miniature droidsmith, Babu Frik. He was voiced by Harry Potter actress Shirley Henderson, who apparently delivered her lines while controlling the mouth for the puppet on set. The sound artists said that the members of the Sith Eternal in Episode 9 are chanting "Revenge, Soul, Kill" in the actual language of Sanskrit. It was voice actor Sam Witwer who came up with that phrase. Witwer provided voices for The Rise of Skywalker but also played Starkiller in The Force Unleashed and earned an Emmy nomination for playing Darth Maul in The Clone Wars. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/25/star-wars-episode-9-colin-trevorrow-confirms-the-leak-is-real-ign-now"] Wood and Acord are nominated at the Academy Awards for their sound effects work in The Rise of Skywalker. The two were nominated for The Force Awakens at the 2016 Oscars but lost the award to Mad Max: Fury Road. Wood was nominated for the sound effects in The Last Jedi two years later but lost to Dunkirk. The two are nominated this year against 1917, Ford v. Ferrari, Joker and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. For more on The Rise of Skywalker, read which ships from Star Wars: Resistance made their way into the film and see the leaked concept art that Colin Trevorrow confirmed was from his time working on the film. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.