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Poor Lea looks like Kevin Bacon on the movie cover


Does anybody else see it? I love Lea and think was and still is a very sexy woman. I just can't unsee that though.

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Bacon looked more sexier though!

Its that man again!!

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https://lebeauleblog.com/2014/07/15/what-the-hell-happened-to-lea-thompson/5/

Later that year, Thompson starred in George Lucas’ adaptation of the Marvel comic book, Howard the Duck. And yes, in case you are wondering, Howard is the first Marvel character ever to make the jump to the big screen.

Thompson played Beverly, a sexy rocker chic who meets a talking duck from another dimension and… No. No I’m not going to try to summarize the plot of Howard the Duck. It defies explanation.

Howard the Duck came at a pivotal time in George Lucas’s career. He had recently finished the original Star Wars trilogy. The Indiana Jones movies were hits. Lucas decided to step down as president of Lucasfilm so he could concentrate on producing movies. He turned to his old film school friends, Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz with whom he had written American Graffiti. While making that film, Lucas first brought up the idea of adapting the Howard the Duck comic book into a movie.

Originally, the idea was to make an animated movie. But Lucas was obligated to make a live-action film. So he decided to make a live action adaptation of Howard the Duck with special effects by Industrial Light and Magic. This lead to a shift from the satire of the comic book to a movie that was driven by special effects. Also, the character was changed from the source material to be more likable.

Thompson actually sang all of her own songs for the movie. Thomas Dolby wrote the songs and selected the members of the band, Cherry Bomb. Thompson’s 80’s hair took over two hours a day to prepare. She complained that she would have worn a wig had she known it was going to take so long.

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