![]() ![]() Until Free Willy, state-of-the-art for full-size aquatic animatronics was the shark created for Jaws. So they called Walt Conti, who had recently achieved breakthrough success by creating the free-swimming miniature humpback whales for Star Trek IV. The filmmakers had no idea how they were going to pull off these critical scenes. However, almost half the story would be dedicated to Willy’s dramatic rescue from the park and triumphant return to the open ocean. A real whale named Keiko would portray Willy in scenes that take place at a marine park. In 1992 Warner Bros was planning to make Free Willy, a film about the friendship between a boy and a killer whale.
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