'Rogue One: Star Wars'' Aliens Will Be More Realistic, Says Creature Supervisor
Aliens and creatures play a significant role in the "Star Wars" universe, making the galaxy far, far away more interesting at the very least. This year's "Star Wars" film, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," will have aliens that are more realistic, says the movie's creature supervisor.
In an interview with MTV, Neal Scanlan talked about how the upcoming film portrayed aliens. He also discussed what made "Rogue One's" approach different from the recently released "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
Whereas "The Force Awakens" was similar to the original Cantina sequence in "A New Hope" where there were aliens of all different kinds, "Rogue One" director Gareth Edwards wanted to show aliens and humans working together in the upcoming flick.
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"Working with Gareth now on 'Rogue One,' he sees these aliens as being much more part of the human [world]," Scanlan told MTV. "They co-habitate, they work together and so it's pushed us very much to create characters that are more realistic."
The Academy Award-winning creature supervisor revealed that the aliens in "Rogue One" will move more realistically and emote more than the ones seen in the previous movie. Although "The Force Awakens" did feature a couple of realistic and believable creatures, the rest — all 110 aliens and droids — were more simplistic and had only a few seconds of screen time.
"They're a closer part of the storytelling," he said further. "They're less of the world, and they're more of this group who have a mission, and play a part in that."
In other words, viewers of "Rogue One" should not expect to see a scene with a multitude of aliens in the background but rather get to know them as with the other human characters in the film.
"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" hits theaters on Dec. 16. It's the first in a series of "Star Wars" anthology films.
