Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Creatures Featurette Released
12/05/2016 10:11 am EST
Rogue One may not be a part of the Skywalker Saga, but it is still a Star Wars movie, and a Star Wars movie needs aliens, droids, and other such creatures.
A new featurette released by Disney and Lucasfilm takes fans behind-the-scenes of Rogue One's creature creation process.
"We all grew up with Star Wars and I never imagined for one minute that I would ever work on a Star Wars production," says Rogue One creature effects supervisor Neal Scanlan. "My role on Rogue One is an opportunity to be able to develop techniques, get better at it, not only in the way that we make things but hopefully more successfully creatively in such a way that it feels as Star Wars as it can possibly be."
"The creatures are amazing," says Alan Tudyk, the voice of the droid K-2SO. "Their eyes blink and move, and their lips have very subtle expression."
"You'll look up and one of the creatures is a huge monkey shooting an enormous gun out of a plane," says star Felicity Jones, who plays Jyn Erso. "And then you remember, 'Oh, we're actually in Star Wars."
That monkey creature seems to be one that director Gareth Edwards is particularly fond of.
"I love apes and monkeys in general, and I love space, so when you combine the two into a kind of space monkey its kind of a dream come true," Edwards says.
"You've got to remind yourself that every single day is an amazing thing no matter what you're doing," Edwards adds. "We just happen to be running around with robots and creatures and stuff."
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From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel are producing, with John Knoll and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theaters December 16, 2016.
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