The Fifth Brother in Star Wars Rebels was Based on Unused Concept Art for The Force Awakens.

Fifth BrotherThe official Star Wars Rebels Facebook page has just confirmed that the insidious Fifth Brother was modeled after unused concept art – but instead of being based around Ralph McQuarrie’s work, the character is based on relatively new material that was made for The Force Awakens. Click ahead to see what an antagonist from the upcoming movie might have looked like in live-action…

TFA Bad GuyThe concept art looks very Palpatine-esque in terms of the character’s facial structure, which might be why this character wasn’t used for the movie. The Fifth Brother’s appearance is distinctly alien while this character looks like a human or a near-human alien. Certain details were carried over for sure, such as the locations of the locations of certain protrusions on his helm or the character’s jagged teeth.

 

Even though the proto-Fifth Brother won’t be in The Force Awakens, the attire he wears does look similar to the attire of the (presumed) Knights of Ren seen in the trailer. I would say that this concept art was either for one of the characters shown below or for Andy Serkis’s still-to-be-revealed Supreme Leader Snoke.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

63 thoughts on “The Fifth Brother in Star Wars Rebels was Based on Unused Concept Art for The Force Awakens.

  • November 3, 2015 at 12:05 am
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    Well that´s one hell of a design, isn´t it? Look at the great art of Rebels, especially the hats! Oh…..and the names! Fifth brother! Seventh sister! Just……amazing! 🙂

    • November 3, 2015 at 2:51 am
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      I blame Tatooine with it’s 2nd Son

      • November 3, 2015 at 6:37 am
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        You mean Luke? Assuming Anakin was the 1st Son 😉

        • November 3, 2015 at 8:53 am
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          Or did he mean 2nd sun Since Tatooine has 2?

          • November 3, 2015 at 2:31 pm
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            Or is the Grand Inquisitor the second Son? 😉 Oh the possibilities…

  • November 3, 2015 at 12:07 am
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    That concept art actually screams zombie Plagueis to me. Highly doubt it but that was my initially thought…

    • November 3, 2015 at 12:30 am
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      I thought the same thing.

    • November 3, 2015 at 12:48 am
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      I thought of Dark Helmet from Spaceballs lol

  • November 3, 2015 at 12:21 am
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    My initial thoughts upon seeing the concept art was ROTJ and Palpatine’s “advisors”… I’ll try to make time and dig up an image…

    • November 4, 2015 at 11:28 am
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      There it is

  • November 3, 2015 at 12:51 am
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    Could be Snoke, or an advisor of Snoke.

  • November 3, 2015 at 12:52 am
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    Looks like a background crowd character to me.

  • November 3, 2015 at 1:02 am
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    I do not care for this design. Looks to much like a Mortal Kombat character.

    • November 3, 2015 at 1:25 am
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      more like Yoshimitsu from Tekken

  • November 3, 2015 at 1:12 am
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    This concept art would not be released if apart of force awakens this has to be old concept art from another projects maybe clone wars.

    • November 3, 2015 at 1:18 am
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      Umm, this post was from the official Star Wars Rebel’s page itself, so I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t be lying about that.

      • November 3, 2015 at 2:24 pm
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        But everything for tfa has been so secret even if it was the official star wars page they would not just outright release concept art.

        • November 3, 2015 at 2:29 pm
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          It was unused and they more than likely went a completely different direction with whichever character this was for. I don’t think it reveals much about the final design or like you said, they wouldn’t have released it. But they did, so it’s official concept art from TFA.

          • November 3, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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            I agree they would show concept art for an entirely different direction for the character this has to be a background character not a huge new character like snoke.

          • November 5, 2015 at 6:29 am
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            They never said i was a huge character. Just unused concept art. You’re assuming it was for something important based on what YOU want it to have been. When in reality it could have been for a background character with no lines and .6 seconds of screen time.

  • November 3, 2015 at 1:36 am
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    yeagh it does have a Plagueis feel to it. Exiting to discover who this Snoke guy really is.

  • November 3, 2015 at 2:09 am
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    intriguing. Seems like a prophet of the Dark Side to me.

  • November 3, 2015 at 3:23 am
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    The Knights Of Ren (have they been confirmed to be them in the pic above?) remind me of darker versions of the Imperial Royal Guard without their robes from the Crimson Empire comics.

    • November 3, 2015 at 3:25 am
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      Btw, When are you going to reveal Snoak’s image on here anyway?

      • November 3, 2015 at 10:23 am
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        Snoke has no image, he is ‘reflective smoke’ lol

        • November 3, 2015 at 11:44 am
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          I actually wouldn’t mind a character in this series like the dude that Seth Macfarlene voiced in Hellboy II. They need more non-humanoid aliens.

        • November 3, 2015 at 11:45 am
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          Well, He does already have the yellow eyes.

    • November 3, 2015 at 3:46 am
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      It strikes me Knight of Ren is not equipped with sophisticated weapon as Royal gurad . Still they are more formidable like Yojinbou as group of Independent Samurai warier.

      • November 3, 2015 at 6:34 am
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        Well Force Pikes are not all that sophisticated but the lack of sophistication is probably why The First Order is re-using a lot of the Empire’s vehicle designs due to lack of planetarty territory to gather the capital to be more ambitious in their weaponry. Yeah there is Starkiller but that was probably a left over and unfinished Imperial Superweapon from the Endor days that they filled in the blanks with.

        • November 3, 2015 at 10:23 am
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          More likely Starkiller is one of the ‘ancient sith weapons’ that the superlasers in the death stars were based on. Somehow related the the wellspring of the Dark Side the emperor sent scientists out to look for. The Imps found it, used it to help design the Death Star etc…

          • November 3, 2015 at 11:42 am
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            That’s one possibility. Though it seems like The Sith really are dead in this trilogy from what we know thus far.

  • November 3, 2015 at 3:59 am
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    If this was released willingly from Lucasfilm, then it’s probably because the art is completely in a different direction from where they decided to go in TFA

    so don’t read too much into it…

  • November 3, 2015 at 4:33 am
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    It must be early concept art for Snoke,of course,if Snoke looks like that,he would be prostetic,but they might done something similar to Snoke,but for CGI character

  • November 3, 2015 at 8:50 am
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    or same species

  • November 3, 2015 at 11:11 am
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    The original art looks SO much better! The one in the Rebels looks like a clown.

    • November 3, 2015 at 11:37 am
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      Totally share your opinion. For me the fifth brother is the most stupid design coming from star wars ever. But love the original concept artwork.

  • November 3, 2015 at 12:06 pm
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    I like that concept art, very creepy, would have been great in Rebels. Instead they went with the wrestler physique big-hulk-of-a-guy approach… disappointing. I liked the female inquisitor character design though.

  • November 3, 2015 at 12:56 pm
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    Another possibility though I am still skeptical that the Inquisitor was The Son.

    • November 3, 2015 at 1:33 pm
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      I thought the Son died on Mortis… I will have to go back over that episode and get my facts straightened out. Still I view Mortis as pivotal, to be referenced as the “conduit through which the ENTIRE FORCE of the universe flows” is simply too great, too important, to ignore. THE ULTIMATE POWER IN THE UNIVERSE! I mean seriously, ALL THE FORCE flows through this one point…

      • November 3, 2015 at 2:29 pm
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        He did which is why I don’t buy the theory of them being the same person. It will really depend on how much of the new EU is incorporated into the film. Seems like the Journey To The Force Awakens stuff is where they are leaving the real hints. I haven’t read it all yet but I have read all the reviews here and I haven’t seen anything about Mortis yet. Clone Wars is canon but they seem to be downplaying the prequels in this one. I think the only reason CW made the cut was due to Filoni/Lucas having worked on it and Rebels would kind of really sucked without it’s backstory.

        • November 3, 2015 at 2:50 pm
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          Have faith my friend, I personally believe Mortis, like Luke, is being “kept in the bank” – my feeling is Ep8 is where the sh*t will really hit the fan and the true nature of the story will be revealed. (Thinking of the story development of E4-6, and bearing in mind GL modified said story between E4&5, GL proposed ANH as introducing the characters, ESB as putting them in the worst possible situation, and ROTJ as their overcoming/triumph – I strongly feel E7-9 will follow this story development… it is a proven formula)… so leaving Luke until the end of TFA, using him as the instrument of triumph for the moment, and having him guide the central character in Ep8 as they face horrors never experienced… the idea of Mortis being controlled for Galactic domination would fit quite nicely… as would Luke balancing the “Son” Kylo and the “Daughter” Rey…

          • November 3, 2015 at 2:59 pm
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            I guess we will see when the time comes. Especially if they have a Mortis episode of Rebels. Or from what we see in the concept art and production designs. You’ll be the first one on here to get credit for it if they do.

  • November 3, 2015 at 3:03 pm
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    Brain-wave:
    Luke is in “exile” to hunt down the ACTUAL Sith. I’m thinking that’s gonna be the “aha!” moment for this film, where people realize the Sith ARE in this after all. And that’s why Luke is no where to be seen,
    Luke sees the Knights of Ren on the rise, and immediately figures out that they aren’t legit – and drops off the radar to get to the bottom of things – while Leia and Han waste their time fooling around with the small-fry KoR.

  • November 3, 2015 at 4:51 pm
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    I really dislike all the inquisitor designs from rebels. They look dumb IMO

    • November 3, 2015 at 6:21 pm
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      Agree. I’m not too keen on the whole Inquisitors thing themselves. I guess I just don’t get why you would be a semi-Sith. Why learn a few Force powers and stop from going all the way? Hopefully it’ll be explained this season in Rebels.

  • November 3, 2015 at 5:03 pm
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    Or could this be concept art for Supreme Leader Snoke…?

  • November 3, 2015 at 7:25 pm
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    PLLAAAAAGGGUUUEEEIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i’msorryihadto

  • November 4, 2015 at 6:27 am
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    Cool! I like their hats, very classy. 🙂

  • November 4, 2015 at 7:33 am
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    Oh yeah, The Mortis trilogy raised far more questions than it answered and he wrote the whole thing!

    • November 4, 2015 at 3:36 pm
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      im liking the idea of the involvment of the son/daughter or of the return of Abeloth??

      • November 5, 2015 at 6:14 am
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        Son/Daughter are canon but Abeloth no longer is.

        • November 5, 2015 at 6:27 am
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          Thank the gods. Abeloth was boring and drug on far too long. She *might have been interesting if they had streamlined that series but somewhere around 50 60 % of that series was BS runaround filler.

          • November 5, 2015 at 7:08 am
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            I’m only just getting around to finishing the series even though I mostly know what happens. Arguably better than Legacy Of The Force but that’s not exactly high praise. I don’t care much for what happened after Jedi far as the books go in the old EU but there was some good stuff before it. The NJO is where the EU jumped the shark imo, Never recovered after that.

          • November 5, 2015 at 4:36 pm
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            Yep, it was a forced shake up for the sake of doing something different and stopped feeling like star wars throughout and after that. From that specific series and on NONE of the multi-author series EVER meshed together well. All of the series had authors favoring their own characters and plot threads while ignoring those from the other authors or, even worse, twisting the other authors plot threads to fill holes in their own. It happened through the LotF and the Fate series. Problem is they left the galaxy in such a clusterf*ck after the NJO series that they basically painted themselves into a corner. An idiotic “have everyone act counter to their established personalities”, “make stupid decisions based on the authors need for them to do so”, “we aren’t really creative we just have a contract and no direction so were writing whatever bullsh*t comes to mind” corner. Allstons Last X-wing novel was a fitting end to the old EU, it was titled Mercy Kill and sums up the state of the books at the time. The old stories NEEDED to go. People bought them because they were Star Wars, not because they were good.

          • November 6, 2015 at 2:46 pm
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            I’m finishing up the ones I missed because I doubt they’ll be available for much longer as the new canon grows, they are slightly cheaper, and I like to see what direction they would have gone in had Disney not bought the rights. The ones I really enjoyed were the character story standalones like Plagueis as well as the aforementioned X-Wing/Wraith books and the anthology ones. I was not really sorry to see the post-Jedi stuff go but the stuff before was a little better and wouldn’t really have affected the canon had they kept it. Though I think the Dark Horse comics had a better success rate than the novels did. It also got stupid with it’s own Legacy title at the end but I enjoyed the X-Wing and Tales series.

          • November 6, 2015 at 4:18 pm
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            The Legends books aren’t going anywhere man. The books manager at my local store said they’ve been doing all new print runs of the old novels with the new Legends branding and everything. so it would appear that you have some time… 😀

          • November 6, 2015 at 4:55 pm
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            You think? I seen some with the banner but it tends to be the more quality stuff like that I already read like The Thrawn trilogy, I don’t think they’ll be doing it with some of the post-NJO stuff that they’d rather forget about. Lol. The new EU only consists of a handful of adult books atm so I guess I can see them doing that to pad out the section till they get up to the same numbers.

  • November 5, 2015 at 2:34 am
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    Am I the only one who LOVEEESSS the “unused” concept art here? It’s so different and yet cool and snake like (cough cough…snoke like?). If this was the jumping off point for SLS then i hope he looks very close to this!!

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