EW Reveals New Creatures and Droids from Rogue One!
Entertainment Weekly’s collector’s edition of The Ultimate Guide to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is on newsstands now. Several new alien creatures and droids have been revealed by EW, who can also be found on the pages of this issue. Check them out…
Here are some of the creatures and droids, with some insights from EW and creature-effects supervisor Neal Scanlan.
From EW:
Weeteef Cyubee
Warwick Davis has played various characters in three Star Wars movies — and in Rogue One he’s back as a wrinkly member of Saw Gerrera’s (Forest Whittaker) team. “Warwick is performing pretty blind inside the animatronic head,” Creature-effect supervisor Neal Scanlan says. “He is cocooned in his [costume], and his imagination brings such incredible life to his performance.” Though Weeteef is a good rebel, his look was inspired by a mean fish. “We thought of a piranha,” says Scanlan, pointing out that Weeteef’s name is slang (wee teeth) for his tiny, sharp incisors.
Benthic
Breathing assistance is not a new concept for Star Wars characters, even though the coughing and heavy wheezing are often reserved for villains like Darth Vader or General Grievous. But despite the apparatus on his face (inspired by gas masks from the First and Second World Wars), Benthic is no friend of the Empire. In Rogue One, he’s allied with the Rebels to fight back against the evil forces that conquered his home planet, and rendered him a refugee. The oxygen is strong with this one.
Beezer Fortuna
Sharp-eyed fans will spot the similarity (in name and appearance) between this wormlike fella and the slithery Bib Fortuna, Jabba the Hutt’s consigliere in Return of the Jedi.
Oolin Musters
Earth’s ocean has been a lucrative casting agency for many Star Wars creatures, including this rebel fighter who appears in a prison cell.
Image Credit: Giles Keyte/Lucasfilm Ltd.
Farm Droid
The loose-jointed robot works on the farm of Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelson), father of Jyn (Felicity Jones). “The character alerts him to the arrival of the Imperial troops,” Scanlan says of the character, who’s seen at the beginning of the film.
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Fortuna looks bad ass
A Twi’lek! Bib Fortuna has an anorexic old relative.
I wish there were more creatures in the film..
I wish people would see a movie before saying such things.
I saw the 29-minute preview in Japan, and I would say there were more aliens than humans. Everyone in Saw Gerrera’s partisans seems to be alien, for one. The Two-Tube egg-mates, Moroff, Cyubee, etc.
Especially in prominent roles.
I love the psuedo Bib-Fortuna. The droid is also very similar to the little repair droids from Phantom Menace (I forget their names). One of my complaints about TFA was that there were no OT or PT aliens to be seen anywhere, which I found strange given their presence in all other material. So I like that Edwards has peppered the film with callbacks as well as new material. It makes the universe feel more cohesive – and if rumours are to be believed the movie will finally make sure the PT doesn’t feel quite so orphaned (and I’m not talking about Jimmy Smiths).
Pit droids.
In TFA Admiral Ackbar represented in the mon calamari & Nien Numb represented Sullust. Also a Stennes Shifter in Maz’s place. And an offshoot of an ithorian.
Chewbacca? Ackbar? Nien Nunb?
I’m quite obviously talking about background aliens.
Still my points stand.
So why do all the male Twi’Leks look horrendous and the females look beautiful?
I suppose the Twilek women disagree with your assessment.
Or maybe they’re all just to species-ist that they settle.
Yea I was thinking the same thing. They look like mutants
I wonder if Beeza fortuna will say “wanna wanga!” 🙂
This looks more like Star Wars than TFA did. Incredible. Neil Scanlon et al, must get an Oscar for this.
Neal Scanlon did TFA too. Geez. You guys complain endlessly about things being rehashed, Then you turn and complain about not enough old stuff.
Learn to read, I know Scanlan worked on TFA, I think he topped his own work on this is what I’m saying. No one is complaining about anything, apart from you that is. Back off and read properly next time. It’s people like you who come to boards like this to stir and we dont like it.
That Twi’lek looks like Bib Fortuna’s “special” younger brother.
Twi-Leks have some serious gastric bypass surgery.
Why are all the aliens always the same skin tone? I know they changed up the calamari but most of these are just flesh colored. We never see Rodians anymore or any other blue and green creatures. I want trandoshans!