With Disney pushing a return to more practical-based effects for its Star Wars universe compared to the CG-heavy approach of the prequels, creature designer Neal Scanlan has been talking to MTV about the alien characters set to inhabit Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, stating that director Gareth Edwards has been pushing for more realistic and emotive creatures than we saw in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
“In the world of Force Awakens, there was a real mixture of all different kinds, very much like the original Cantina sequence [in A New Hope],” said Scanlan. “Working with Gareth now on Rogue One, he sees these aliens as being much more part of the human [world]. They co-habitate, they work together and so it’s pushed us very much to create characters that are more realistic. They move more realistically, they’re able to emote more than maybe the characters that we did for . So they’re a closer part of the storytelling. They’re less of the world, and they’re more of this group who have a mission, and play a part in that.”
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is set for release on December 16th 2016, with a cast that includes Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) Diego Luna (Milk), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Donnie Yen (Ip Man), Jiang Wen (Let the Bullets Fly), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Alan Tudyk (Con Man) and Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler).
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Originally published January 21, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
