More Details on the Two Aliens Bistan and Pao from Rogue One

Rogue-One-10Yesterday The Star Wars Show revealed several new details about the “Space Monkey” creature that was revealed during one of the panels at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016. Now Entertainment Weekly has even more details about Bistan aka “Space Monkey”, and another alien called “Bigmouth” that briefly appeared on the Rogue One BTS footage shown at Celebration…

 

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Bistan

Yesterday Pablo Hidalgo revealed on The Star Wars show that “Space Monkey’s” real name is Bistan, that its race is an Iakaru, and that he is a gunner on an U-Wing.

 

Entertainment Weekly spoke with director Gareth Edwards who revealed some more bits on the character:

His real name: Bistan. He’s the gunner on a new starship known as the U-Wing, a sort of gunship and troop transport. “It’s not necessarily a character that we get to know, but I think he has a very memorable, iconic look,” said Edwards. “[He’s] one of my favorites. I can’t give away what happens to him.”

 

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On the other alien EW reports:

“Bigmouth,” whose real name is Pao, a soldier who serves as a kind of platoon leader, coordinating the charge into battle. “There was this great design of this creature that’s mouth would open really wide, and he looked like he was really good at giving orders and shouting at people during a battle,” Edwards said. “I was like, ‘We’ve got to give him that moment in the film,’ and so [Pao] was born out of that.”

 

Neal Scanlan

 

Gareth Edwards on the creature shop and the process of selecting the aliens:

He says aliens are just as important a part of the uprising against the Empire as the humans, but they didn’t know what they wanted until Neal Scanlan’s creature department got busy making designs. The best of the menagerie made it into the movie.
“It wasn’t like, ‘We’ve got this character, we need to design a creature for it, and here’s what this creature’s like,’” Edwards said. “It was more like we told the creature department to come up with a thousand ideas, and then it was like casting the movie. There were walls and walls of these different types of characters that we could’ve picked from. We just went through them, like, ‘God, he’s fascinating…. Who’s that…? And she looks amazing…! And what’s that there?’ Slowly, we got it down to our top hundred, and then it got even more refined.”

 

Source: Entertainment Weekly

 

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113 thoughts on “More Details on the Two Aliens Bistan and Pao from Rogue One

  • July 21, 2016 at 5:18 pm
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    I loved first trailer,but I was complaining how they don’t want to include aliens in crew,because that’s what STAR WARS is for me. Crew where are droids,aliens and humans,fighting evil,like Rebels crew. And now,I am so happy. This movie screams STAR WARS for me.

    • July 22, 2016 at 1:06 am
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      there weren’t any aliens among the rebels in Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back. That only happened in ROTJ.

      • July 22, 2016 at 9:20 am
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        wookiee are aliens bro

        • July 22, 2016 at 9:24 am
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          aka Chewbacca

          • July 24, 2016 at 9:19 pm
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            Do I have to answer that point AGAIN?! 😉

        • July 22, 2016 at 10:57 am
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          true. but ONE single ‘alien’ smuggler who got roped into the rebellion at the end of the first movie. EVERY other rebel in the first two movies was human. get to ROTJ and, combined with Jabba’s palace, it’s suddenly the Muppet Show 😀

          • July 23, 2016 at 12:05 am
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            What they had Mon Calamari, Sullustans and Prune Face in ROTJ?

          • July 23, 2016 at 8:06 pm
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            yes they did. what is your point? i said there were no alien rebels in Star Wars (A New Hope) and The Empire Strikes Back!

          • July 23, 2016 at 11:38 pm
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            Exactly, you are getting my point.

          • July 24, 2016 at 9:44 am
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            no I am not. the original poster said that aliens in the Rebel forces was Star Wars to them. I pointed out that TWO THIRDS of the original trilogy didn’t have aliens in the rebel forces. does that mean Star Wars and Empire aren’t Star Wars to them. THAT is MY point. not hard really.

          • July 24, 2016 at 2:11 pm
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            I’m saying just because we don’t see any in ANH or ESB, doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They had the technology for masks in those movies, as seen in the Cantina. (ESB has very few masked aliens in general.)

          • July 24, 2016 at 9:24 pm
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            well yeah we have to accept what is now “canon” but in reality even though they were quite capable of making creatures (as you point out, which kind of goes against your own point) in Star Wars and Empire we don’t see them recruited among the Rebel forces (EXCEPT CHEWBACCA! who falls into it by accident) because that decision was clearly made at the time of ROTJ (like so many of Uncle George’s examples of revisionism 😉 )

            once again…. the original poster said it wasn’t Star Wars without them despite not a single sign of them in Star Wars and Empire. stuff made up after the fact and put into comics or expanded universe stuff doesn’t change that.

          • July 25, 2016 at 6:45 pm
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            Not everything is always shown onscreen

          • July 26, 2016 at 5:53 pm
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            ahh. that’s the classic cop-out though. a film should provide whatever information it is required to. not rely on having to read a companion book or some encyclopedia or whatever. however it’s not a flaw in SW or ESB. the inconsistency is created in ROTJ.

            it’s quite obvious that the intention in SW and ESB was to have all human rebels. this was changed for ROTJ which creates an inconsistency (not the only one. for instance Vader is Tarkin’s henchman in SW. by ESB with the popularity of the character having become huge he is suddenly second only to the emperor as the story is revised and altered as it goes along. same with Luke and Leia’s relationship and Luke’s “father”). however I am happy for my fave movies to be imperfect. still love them.

            to echo your point. let’s just leave all the alien rebels out of Rogue One then. we can say they are there but just not shown 😉

          • July 27, 2016 at 2:55 am
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            then you get the politics and talk of the prequels that a lot of people complained there was too much exposition.

          • July 27, 2016 at 10:51 am
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            is that reply to my last sentence? if so, i was clearly being facetious.

            if it’s a reply to the earlier part of my post then how does it follow you have to have politics and talk?!! the only information that was needed required NO exposition or talk or politics. it merely required some rebels to be aliens instead of humans. that literally doesn’t take up ANY extra screen or script time or anything remotely like that.

          • July 27, 2016 at 2:56 am
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            You are saying the films are required to show everyone that was a member of the Alliance in all the movies?

          • July 23, 2016 at 11:40 pm
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            Yes, but I am sure there are aliens onboard, we just don’t see them.

  • July 21, 2016 at 5:51 pm
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    Love those aliens! Have the feeling they will be cool on screen, like most of OT ones. Seems they have more charisma than some actual actors… :p

  • July 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm
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    I want to know what species Pao is since the article doesn’t include that piece of info, the mystery sucks. Maybe Lucasfilm isn’t revealing it yet but it seems more like an oversight.

    • July 21, 2016 at 7:35 pm
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      Or maybe leaving it open for authors to come around and ‘create’ a story instead of centralizing everything beforehand.

    • July 22, 2016 at 9:22 am
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      I looks like a Shozer from Episode 7

      • July 22, 2016 at 3:49 pm
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        I looked up who Shozer and he doesn’t look like Pao to me. But humans vary wildly on our individual appearances so maybe that species does too.

  • July 21, 2016 at 6:37 pm
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    Wouldn’t everyone of the heroes have to die? Otherwise where were they during the attack on the two Death Stars or the Battle of Hoth?

    • July 21, 2016 at 7:13 pm
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      I assume many are dead, but couldn’t they be on other missions? I’m sure not every rebel was on Yavin IV. Just like the First Order won’t be starting from scratch. I’m sure not everyone was on Starkiller or Kylo Ren’s Star Destroyer. But i bet a great many do actually die. I mean… we already know 1 character who will die in the film.

      • July 21, 2016 at 8:01 pm
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        Not every last Rebel would have necessarily been on Yavin IV, but going by what we know from ANH it seems that the overwhelming majority of them were. It wasn’t just a backwater little hidey hole for a cell or two, it was THE Rebel base. Had Luke and the rest of the pilots failed to destroy the Death Star in time then, we’re told, the Empire would have “crushed the Rebellion with one swift stroke.”

        I’m concerned that the LFL Story Group is getting away from that, what with pre-Yavin Rebel cells zipping around in starfighters that we never saw until ROTJ, and the Rebellion being gradually portrayed as larger and larger prior to and at the time of ANH, etc.

        But, we’ll see how Rogue One turns out.

        • July 21, 2016 at 9:02 pm
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          good points. Definitely going to be a fun movie. However, Tarkin may not have had the best intel. I think Yavin IV was a cell. I mean, where was Mon Mothma during IV? Or ackbar? I’m sure there were missions and other dealings happening, as the Rebels didn’t know that the Empire would learn they were on Yavin.

          I think they got caught off guard and sent all the pilots they could. Whereas in ROTJ, they all came together to stop the second Death Star, taking the initiative.

          But yeah, i am sure they will explain things. I have faith in Lucasfilm. They are above most when it comes to continuity, especially considering all the stories and mediums Star Wars inhabits.

        • July 21, 2016 at 9:12 pm
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          Thus far (just to justify it at this point), I would guess that the other main rebels would have been supported by Alderaan, which Tarkin would have assumed had been alienated and all-but completely marginalized by the destruction of the planet.

          This assumption is supported by the fact that the rebels in….Rebels….are sourced by Bail and utilize the same class of ships. I’m assuming we are to assume that the early A-Wings we see in Rebels are Alderaanian-sourced starfighters – which does support the claim that the Rebel Alliance overall was “too well equipped” prior to the destruction of Alderaan. They would have been able to pull in the rest of the A-Wing fleet after the destruction of Alderaan for the Second Death Star Assault.

          So I’m stating that Tarkin would have plenty of reason to believe that the destruction of Alderaan would have marginalized the Alderaan-supported rebels (the fleet we encounter in Rebels – which also began production and development of the B-Wings) and the only other significant cell is the X-Wing fleet monitored and managed by Mon Mothma on Yavin. The other rebels we see as part of ESB and ROTJ fleet (Mon Cals, Sullustans and other human worlds) would have joined up after Luke destroys the Death Star, thereby giving the galaxy a……A New Hope.

        • July 21, 2016 at 11:40 pm
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          Remember, it’s the Rebel “Alliance”…there are many cells and its clear from the Rogue One promotional material that this film represents the transition from a collection of largely independent insurgent groups to a unified fighting force. And since Rogue One takes place just before ANH, it would make sense that destroying Yavin IV would deal a crippling blow to that newfound strength, so Tarkin’s comment shouldn’t be taken literally.

    • July 21, 2016 at 7:27 pm
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      It would be totally crazy for the Rebellion not to have put in place a contingency plan in case Yavin IV was destroyed by the Death Star. Surely they had other cells and possibly even bases that could continue the fight, should things have taken a turn for the worse. Pretty common in the history of insurgent movements…

    • July 21, 2016 at 7:30 pm
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      Perhaps some of the characters do survive, and played a role in the battles you mention, just that their particular story is being told in Rogue One.

      A similar question could be asked of Mon Mothma. Where was she during Episodes IV and V?

    • July 21, 2016 at 8:26 pm
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      General Rieekan didn’t appear onscreen in ROTJ but not because he died, they just didn’t write him in. In the canon it’s written that he was there at Endor though. I’m sure some of Rebel field operatives from Rogue One will survive but then move on to other assignments elsewhere.

    • July 21, 2016 at 8:59 pm
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      They don’t necessarily have to die. They could be like “well, my job here is done”. Then they flick their weapons over their shoulder and epicly walk away. Or they say something like: i would love to help but i got family on XY. now the faith of the galaxy is in Leia’s hands”. However, I think Jyn has to die though. I can’t imagine it any other way.

      • July 22, 2016 at 10:51 pm
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        They’re going to die though. Most of them, anyways.

    • July 21, 2016 at 11:32 pm
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      Do you think every rebel, especially infiltration units, were at Hoth and Home One? It’s a big galaxy. You’re confusing the fact that there is a film about one important Rebel operation with the notion that they should therefore be central heroes of the saga and featured in other films.

      While I have no doubts that most of them will die, Vader’s line in ANH “there will be no one to stop us this time” implies to me that Krennic and Vader won’t wipe them all out.

      • July 22, 2016 at 6:24 am
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        Sorry but * will wipe them out.

        That confused me.

    • July 22, 2016 at 1:53 am
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      We didn’t really see much of the infantry during hoth, and on Endor only a small team of troops was dispatched (with hopefully rex being one of them); so, they just were somewhere around… plus we haven’t seen the characters from lost stars and twilight company either, but they fought the battle of Hoth.

    • July 22, 2016 at 11:58 pm
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      Could be anywhere. I’m sure there were tons of people in the Rebellion that weren’t seen onscreen.

  • July 21, 2016 at 8:08 pm
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    what i wanna know is where are the bothans and how and when do they die for these plans in this movie..

    • July 21, 2016 at 8:14 pm
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      ^This is exactly why Celebration 2016 failed to live up to its potential.

      • July 21, 2016 at 8:39 pm
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        Though I’d agree that Celebration 2016 could have been more than it was, I don’t quite understand what this has to do with the above comments.

        • July 21, 2016 at 8:40 pm
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          That people weren’t informed about the movie. That no major details were given and we are 5 months out from the film.

          • July 21, 2016 at 8:44 pm
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            I’d agree on that. I could be wrong but I thought we were about in the same boat though with Episode VII. We knew come small details about the movie, and some characters, but didn’t know anything until what seemed like the 11th hour. I’m going to imagine we’ll get bombarded with info between November and December.

          • July 21, 2016 at 11:38 pm
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            I’d prefer to have all the details in the movie. (While I can’t resist looking at what comes out before.) But I would still love to be completely surprised int he theater. 😀

          • July 21, 2016 at 9:01 pm
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            How much do we really need to know?????????????

            They steal the Death Star plans.
            There’s a battle.
            Vader is in the movie.
            There are aliens as part of the crew.
            Jyn is Galen’s daughter.
            Galen likely is not working for the Empire anymore (costume)
            Kaytoo is CGI and likely sarcastic comedic relief.
            Krennic has some serious hubris and runs special trooper squads.
            The battle is on a tropical planet.
            U-Wings are troop carriers with gun ports.
            The AT-AT’s are modified for cargo instead of troops.
            Jyn is likely recruited by Mon Mothma and doesn’t start out as part of the Alliance.
            Mon Mothma is in the movie.
            There’s a scene on Yavin 4.
            Cassian is a tech – he reprogrammed Kaytoo.
            Saw Gerrera is in the movie, played by Forest Whitaker.
            Donnie Yen’s character is not a Jedi but knows the Force and has a confidant that also becomes part of the crew.

            I mean….did we want the script to be released to us??????

          • July 22, 2016 at 1:51 am
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            You forgot about Jedah, the very important planet to appear, sort of spiritual capital in the galaxy

      • July 22, 2016 at 7:26 pm
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        Did you attend Celebration? The quality of a Celebration shouldn’t be judged by how much big news is dropped. That’s not really their purpose. They’re conventions where Star Wars fans can gather, hang out, and have fun. If someone flies to London to see a movie trailer, that’s their problem. Celebrations are about much more than that.

        Folks that actually attend the Celebrations have a blast. Those sitting at home waiting to see a movie trailer judge the Celebrations as “failed” because they didn’t get the commercial they were hoping to see. That just doesn’t make any sense.

      • July 22, 2016 at 10:48 pm
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        No Ghost. You just complain about everything. Literally. And when I troll you Negative Nancies with a fake “Everything new Star Wars sucks!” post I inevitably see you reflexively up vote me without realizing you’ve just been had.

        It’s kind of glorious.

      • July 25, 2016 at 1:09 am
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        “This is exactly why I didn’t get exactly what I wanted”

        Fixed.

    • July 21, 2016 at 8:17 pm
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      Bothans stole the plans for the second Death Star not for the first.

      • July 21, 2016 at 10:54 pm
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        I’ve stopped counting how many times people confuse Ep IV & Ep VI storylines.

        • July 22, 2016 at 2:38 am
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          I just ignore it now.

          • July 22, 2016 at 3:46 pm
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            I’m too dumb to NOT correct it everytime, it’s like an instinct. Funny because it’s one of the few things about Star Wars trivia I do feel the need to “educate” people on. Yeah, I’m THAT fanboy on the Bothans issue. (and we’re still waiting to see one on screen someday…)

    • July 21, 2016 at 8:55 pm
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      Considered this has been discussed so many times in every Star Wars forum out there I guess this is no question but more like a running gag by now 😀

      • July 21, 2016 at 9:03 pm
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        srsly.

      • July 22, 2016 at 2:50 am
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        I’d actually love it if they made passing reference to Bothans stealing the plans in Rouge One. That would piss off a lot of nit pickers!

        Of course technically Mon Mothma said ‘many Bothans died to bring us these plans’ implying that they stole the plans. It could also be that Rebel Commandos had to kill many Bothans in order to steal the plans from those guys. Or Rebel Spies having stolen the DS plans left a note saying ‘We stole ur planz. Love, the Bothans’ to divert Imperial wrath.

    • July 21, 2016 at 10:57 pm
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      2 common mistakes/misconeptions:
      1) You’re thinking of Death Star #2 (RotJ).
      2) It was Mon Mothma’s boyfriend, Manuel Both-Hanz, who helped deliver news of Death Star #2 situation to rebels, which is why she looked so sad delivering the news (re-watch the scene)

      • July 22, 2016 at 7:23 pm
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        “t was Mon Mothma’s boyfriend, Manuel Both-Hanz, who helped deliver news of Death Star #2 situation to rebels…”

        Hahaha! Bloody brilliant! I love it.

      • July 22, 2016 at 10:46 pm
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        I LOL’d.

    • July 23, 2016 at 1:54 pm
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      There’s always at least one of you posting everyday about where the Bothans are lol. And you think you know Star Wars. You know nothing ChillySCR

    • July 23, 2016 at 2:57 pm
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      Bothans died stealing plans for the 2nd Death Star.

  • July 21, 2016 at 8:08 pm
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    I like the aliens, but i would love to see a non humanoid alien, CGI o whatever, but a non humaoid alien, where are they? 🙁 where are those creatures with 3 finger hands, i undersatnd they are making it old style, but even the old movies have non humanoid aliens.

    The galaxy is very rich in species, and with today’s technology everything is posible, they don’t need to be limited to persons in disguise to make aliens. This movie looks really great, but i think more imaginative stuff will be a good plus.

    This new movies are laking a litle of that.

    I`ll love to see more radical new creatures, or even entablished ones, it is star wars! nos just a 70s film, hopefully we will see more.

    • July 21, 2016 at 8:15 pm
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      Agree, I want to see weird aliens like Sebulba, which is kinda hard to pull off with a person wearing prosthetics.

      • July 21, 2016 at 8:21 pm
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        Exactly! that´s what I’m talking about. it is Star Wars, that’s part of the magic, weird stuff you can only see in a galaxy far far away.

      • July 21, 2016 at 11:31 pm
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        Up vote for prequels!

      • July 23, 2016 at 12:52 am
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        yo

    • July 21, 2016 at 8:53 pm
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      They are in post production i assume. Nonhumanoid aliens means CGI which takes time. Usually when you render stuff it looks pretty bad (aka unshowable to an audience) untill the individual layers are combined in programs like nuke. In many cases they only have finished CGI in the trailers and testscenes while most other scenes are far from finished. So don’t worry about that (yet) 🙂

      • July 22, 2016 at 12:03 am
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        Hopefully! 🙂 i mean i like what they are showing, the movie looks really great, but looking the aliens make me think about it.

    • July 21, 2016 at 10:52 pm
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      I came to comments to write what you wrote.
      Even as limited as things were (tech&budget) back in the 1970s, for developing aliens, Lucas showed quite an imagination w/non-humanoids.

      I get bored every time I see:
      alien mask – 2 eyes & nostrils, mouth in same place
      5 fingers on ea hand (2x arms)
      2x legs & human looking feet (boots)

      • July 22, 2016 at 12:13 am
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        Yes that is what i mean, with a nonhumanod Im refering a character that its particulary interesting because of its anatomic configuration, proportions, etc. one you can tell “is not a person with a mask” and that there is no way there is a person inside.

        • July 23, 2016 at 1:52 pm
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          I have never seen a more ridiculous back and forth of comments, on the Internet. Kudos to you two for arguing about getting more diverse aliens, budget constraints, and directors choices of said sentient alien species.

          You all win the Internet today. Silliest shit I’ve ever read. Especially if you really let alien diversity designs ruin a movie, or your day that much. Hahahahahaha

          • July 25, 2016 at 11:35 pm
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            Clearly you don’t see the point here, for me, that doesn’t ruin anything, but is good to see that al least we entertained you a for a few minutes, and I’m glad you join. For me and some others, every single part of Star wars is worth talking and discussing, and sharing a point of view, I dont see the silly part in that.

    • July 21, 2016 at 11:23 pm
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      What are you on about? Are we watching the same movies?

      Star Wars has a visual language established by the OT, and alien designs are predominantly people in costumes, even if they’re CGI. There are creatures with more radical biologies, but show me a sentient alien that doesn’t conform to humanoid, besides Jabba. Ithorians? Humanoid apart from the head.

      The prequels featured a few experiments with non-humanoids but even Sebulba was fairly conservative as an alien species compared alien character designs outside of the Star Wars franchise. There is a point at which a design no longer “feels” like it belongs in the world. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

      Finally, I find it amusing that you’re calling out 3-fingered hands specifically, as Maz has three fingers and a thumb. And don’t forget the Rathtar, one of the most radical departures from SW norms yet (and part of the reason why I feel that sequence didn’t feel right).

      • July 21, 2016 at 11:45 pm
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        Re: “show me a sentient alien that doesn’t conform to humanoid”
        How about from 1977 when budgets/tech constrained them & they still tried to create non-humanoids?

        • July 21, 2016 at 11:47 pm
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          Define non-humanoids then, because I’m not seeing it any significant difference in what they’re doing in Rogue One.

          • July 21, 2016 at 11:57 pm
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            I just included a pic of a non-humanoid from A New Hope by way of example that Lucas went out of his way to come up with interesting aliens.
            He complained about the budget constraints on the cantina scene & how disappointed he was that they couldn’t do more….that they wound up with mostly “guys in suits”.
            However, the example I provided (above) shows that even w/constraints they wanted to show non-humanoid aliens.

          • July 22, 2016 at 12:04 am
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            Of course Lucas went out of way to do what he could w/limited tech/budget to show aliens in different non-human forms. No the tech/budgets wouldn’t allow at the time a *realistic* sentient major character alien, so we got background creatures even in 1977: dewbacks, banthas, massive skeleton behind droids, dianoga in the trash compactor.
            Having a lot of *sentients* that were non-humanoid at the time with speaking parts would’ve mostly looked bad at the time (again- example why they dropped the Han+Jabba scene in ANH), but by time of RotJ they had the budget & animation tech down – again, see Jabba’s palace aliens.

          • July 22, 2016 at 12:19 am
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            Re: “feel free to point out what I’m missing”
            Ok, I will.
            Just a few, including creepy ones, from Jabba’s palace. Either *NOT* a person-in-suit, or very far from humanoid.
            Some examples:

          • July 22, 2016 at 12:21 am
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            And…you keep saying SENTIENT, when I’ve specifically replied with examples of sentient. Or are you trying to reply to someone else?

        • July 21, 2016 at 11:57 pm
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          Yeah, a hand puppet, and onscreen for a second. So we have two examples. Still not seeing why you’re so disappointed. Never did I say “all” previous aliens are humanoid. My point is that you are greatly overstating the diversity of existing aliens in the Star Wars universe.

          • July 22, 2016 at 12:00 am
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            You wrote “show me a sentient alien that doesn’t conform to humanoid”, so I did.
            That example is from the 1st movie with most constraints (budget & tech).
            Unlike say Star Trek, where aliens just get a few prosthetics glued on and/or make-up, Star Wars has consistently shown alien life that doesn’t confirm to – “person with mask/makeup”.
            Go watch RotJ & Jabba’s alien buddies.
            Jabba would’ve been in A New Hope if budget/constraints had allowed, as a non-humanoid as well.

          • July 22, 2016 at 11:54 pm
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            Remember that giant Mantis looking creature sitting at the bar in the Cantina?

      • July 22, 2016 at 1:36 am
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        Star wars has been creating a visual language, as you say, but with every movie Lucas has released, not just OT, aliens that look like people in costumes is part of that visual language, and i like it. But that is not the only thing in Starwars, there is much more.

        One thing that have a big roll in this movies is imagination, every movie came with more inventive things, including characters. You mention the word “experiment”, movies from I to VI, are experimental films and all has to do with imagination and storytelling.

        When I talk about nonhumanoid aliens Im talking about those that are not tecnically “people with a mask and gloves”, and i love this kind of characters too, it is part of the visual language you mention, we all love, Akbar, greedo, kit fisto, etc. but muy point here is that they can include other kind o species too, not just the one that have a human inside, that iss what I mean when i say “three finger hands”.

        Today´s technology opens the door to make more technicaly challenging and interesting characters among the protagonics, it is totally fine that in the 70s the mayority of the alien characters were people with masks because of the budget and technical limitations and evan with that Lucas and team managed to create some very interesting aliens.

        And don’t get me wrong, i like the aliens they show, Bistan and Pao, but I would love to see more characters like Sebulba, Watto, or even Ongree and Dexter, that are humanoid but dont look like they have a person inside, because that simple thing makes room to have a character with more indivial characteristics that make Him/her more different from the others. So that way if you intend to create a new character you dont have to stay in that anatomical configuration, it can be anything the character need.

        Conclusion, a person inside an alien suit is not a bad thing, i like that actually, but i like the other kind of aliens too, and both kind are very important for the Starwars universe, and today almost anything is technicaly possible, so why stay just with one kind of alien, if Star Wars is all about diversity.

        I’m very exited with this movie, hopefully we will se a lot more of the alien departmet, so may the force be with you 🙂

    • July 22, 2016 at 12:41 pm
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      I agree with you but I can understand why they go for humanoid characters. People complained about CGI which is needed for most non humanoid creatures if there is a lot of movement involved. another thing is that people need humanoid faces to identify emotions and develop feelings for characters. Even in sci fi flicks important characters will almost always be humanoid to some degree. A good example for this is District 9. The prawn aliens in the movie were supposed to look a lot more bizarre and insect like. However, Blomkamp wanted the audience to feel sympathy when looking at these creatures being mistreated so he chose to make them more humanoid. Facial features (especially the eyes) are extremely important to tell the audience that a creature is sentient. imagine the eyeless Xenomorph Alien in a Jedi robe. Nobody would buy that we are seeing an intelligent being.

      If I could chose some non main characters or non sentient creatures I would probably hire these guys to design them:

      Alex Ries:
      http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/gallery/

      Wayne Barlowe:
      https://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/artwork/film-tv-game/

      Neville Page.
      http://www.nevillepage.com/

      and my alltime favourite Ken Barthlemey:
      http://theartofken.com/

  • July 21, 2016 at 10:42 pm
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    Is Bistan based on Donald Trump?

    • July 21, 2016 at 11:07 pm
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      Nah:
      Not orange enough
      No comb-over

    • July 21, 2016 at 11:54 pm
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      I’m guessing Bistan actually serves a useful purpose, unlike Trump.

      • July 22, 2016 at 2:20 pm
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        I’m guessing you live on some kind of government assistance and fear people like Trump that want to pur your sorry basement dwelling ass back to work. Now STFU and go play in traffic, you twinkle toed commie cocksucker.

    • July 22, 2016 at 6:26 am
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      You had to make it political. Why????

      • July 22, 2016 at 2:21 pm
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        Libtards do nothing but cry, so you have to forgive them a little because they can’t help but feel like they’re victims of everything in life.

    • July 22, 2016 at 2:21 pm
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      You need to go fuck yourself with a rusty cast iron rake.

      • July 22, 2016 at 2:39 pm
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        Why so sensitive?

  • July 21, 2016 at 11:59 pm
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    I really wanna see some rodians and duros rebels. Give us something more classic. This thing looks ugly and kinda dumb.

    • July 22, 2016 at 12:37 am
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      “How dare you give us something new?”

      • July 25, 2016 at 6:23 pm
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        This alien sucks. It looks like a deformed sloth

    • July 22, 2016 at 6:09 am
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      “Give us something new you’re just re-hashing the OT!”

      “No! This isn’t what Star Wars is supposed to look like!”

      FFS

      • July 25, 2016 at 6:25 pm
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        what’s wrong with showing at least a few species from the old ones? It’s like they went extinct. There’s none

        • July 25, 2016 at 8:17 pm
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          Like the Mon Calamari clearly visible in the Rogue One reel from Celebration, you mean?

          • July 27, 2016 at 6:24 pm
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            Boring.

        • July 26, 2016 at 7:15 pm
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          There’s none on Yavin. Therefore there’s none part of that particular Alliance battalion.

          Therefore, there’s not going to be many, if any at all.

    • July 22, 2016 at 10:30 am
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      Oh shut the fuck up. I rather see something new than re a rehash stop being spoiled

      • July 22, 2016 at 7:21 pm
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        “Oh shut the fuck up.”

        Talk like a grown up.

        • July 22, 2016 at 10:45 pm
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          It gets old. Same people post the same things over and over again. This whole movie is classic. I like the new aliens designs personally.

          • July 22, 2016 at 11:52 pm
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            I saw that there are some new Mon Calamari on the sizzle reel

        • July 25, 2016 at 1:04 am
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          That’s how most grown ups talk these days, sadly.

      • July 25, 2016 at 6:28 pm
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        Fuck off. I can like what I want. This alien looks like shit. So are u pissed Vader is coming back too? What about the old stormtroopers and Death Star? No because they look awesome. This thing is fucking stupid

  • July 22, 2016 at 2:39 pm
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    Pao looks like a blue ninja turtle.

  • July 22, 2016 at 4:07 pm
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    Not sure why I feel so let down from this years conventions. I love these aliens though, EU gets a bone with Thrawn, and no trailer. Just some more pics and a new poster. Information we already knew from Entertainment Weekly only from Disney themselves. Is Disney trying to commit suicide with Star Wars?

    • July 22, 2016 at 7:21 pm
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      “Is Disney trying to commit suicide with Star Wars?”

      Why? Because you’re thirsty for news and you didn’t get any? Lucasfilm is planning a slew of new films and television programming. How can that be a bad thing? If you hovered around your computer all weekend hoping for an Episode 8 teaser, that’s sort of your fault rather than Lucasfilm’s.

      Were you referring to Celebration? The Star Wars Celebrations don’t really exist for the purpose of huge news drops although those are, at times, incorporated into the events.

    • July 22, 2016 at 10:43 pm
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      We’ve seen more stuff from Rogue One then we did with Ep VII at the same point in time from each films release. So it’s not another trailer, but EVERYTHING else.

    • July 23, 2016 at 8:51 pm
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      To add to the other responses – I think we got a TON more for Rebels than we had in the past, including Thrawn obviously. Full trailer, a couple of clips, Filoni and Eckstein’s full panel about Ahsoka.

      Like it or not, Thrawn and Ahsoka are massively important to 2 different generations of SW fans – the 2nd Gen that grew up with the movies on VHS/TV and the EU material and the 4th Gen that grew up with Clone Wars, partially the prequel generation but not necessarily. So the talk about those characters really resonates with whole generations of SW fans.

    • July 25, 2016 at 1:02 am
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      What a ridiculous question.

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