George R.R. Martin’s work may have helped inspire Chewbacca’s creation in the “Star Wars” franchise.

Slash Film has published the breakdown of Martin’s strange connection to the “Star Wars” trilogy. It began with creature artwork from Martin’s short story “And Seven Times Never Kill Man!” which was published in July 1975.

Artist John Shoenherr illustrated Martin’s creature in 1975. However, a concept art image of Chewbacca created by Ralph McQuarrie for George Lucas in 1976 bears a striking resemblance to Shoenherr’s creature.

The side-by-side comparisons have been making the rounds on Reddit, with many questioning if Martin was the real mastermind behind Chewbacca. Check out Slash Film’s story about the odd connection here

Neither Martin nor Lucas has commented on the Chewbacca story, but both men are hard at work. Lucas is currently working on the “Star Wars: Episode VII” production while Martin is working on finishing his sixth installment in the “A Song of Fire and Ice” saga.

Martin recently spoke about his writing process for “Winds of Winter” during a writer’s conference at Freemason’s Hall in London. Martin revealed there are more deaths to come in “Winds of Winter,” as characters are due to cross paths, again.

“The way my books are structured, everyone was together,” Martin explained to the conference crowd, “then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it’s getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.”