STAR WARS: EPISODE VII - New Villain, Alien Characters, and Battle Descriptions
Art from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Some new information has leaked for J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: Episode VII. I guess that sign Abrams' set up with the phrase, "Loose Lips Bring Down Starships," isn't really working for some of the people that have been given access to the material from the movie.
The info comes from the website Making Star Wars, and they offer some great scene descriptions, as well as details on a villain, aliens, and other characters in the movie. The descriptions are based off of concept art that they've seen. There's really no way to authenticate the descriptions, but they do sound very plausible. I'll throw out a SPOILER warning just in case.
The first illustration they discuss includes six different rebel characters. Three women and three men that are lined up against a white backdrop. They are apparently dressed similar to the extras at Greenham Common’s rebel base set. Here's a description they offer of one of them:
"The first fighter is male, early twenties, he has Adam Driver’s haircut, longer, and kind of swooped to the side. Dark hair. He wears a mustard tunic, closed, with a black best. He has dark brown pants. He wears boots but the ankles are wrapped in white like Anakin Skywalker’s in The Phantom Menace. He looks directly at the camera, blaster in hand and at his side."
Next is a description of a character that’s obviously evil. We don’t know exactly who this is, but here's the description:
"The helmet looks like a samurai helmet. If you took Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and removed all the ornate additions from the helmet, you could have something similar. The back is kind of like Vader’s helmet but it is short, it just protects the back of the head, leaving the neck exposed. The face is covered. But you can see the eyes. This costume is Darth Vader if he were a ninja. Where the eye holes are, there is some light colored design. It has a good vibe about it. It reminds me of Shredder, a little bit of someone from Cobra in the old G.I. Joe and he has a black flowing cloak and red lightsaber which makes it look very cool."
That definitely sounds like a very interesting villainous character. It will be cool to see what he actually looks like in the film. The next bit of info offers a description of huge wickermen tree-type characters characters. Apparently they look like the Dark Elves from Thor: The Dark World, and they have General Grievous’s head and long brown tunics. Here's the description:
"The figure’s face is almost like General Grievous in spirit. White, skeletal, black eye sockets with little pin points [for] eyes. The mouth is almost like Jerry Lewis style buck teeth. Is it an apparatus? But make no mistake, he’s scary! The face is totally white but its face looks like a mask, but it appears to be its skin, as its hands are the same color. The head is almost pointed but where a hair line would begin, there’s pointy wicker like brambles sticking straight up. The face is almost as if Satan made an army of Shy Guys from Super Mario Brothers and outfitted them with riffles.
"He wears a dirty brown poncho. His boots are sort of like a Tusken Raider’s boots. His pants are tied off. He has a bandolier with bullets and pouches strung across his chest. He has a sniper riffle weapon with a scope on it. At the end of the rifle, the barrel is almost rocket shaped. It clearly isn’t a rocket though. At his waste [SIC] a leather pouch rest covering his belt line."
The site describes more of these creatures that you can read about here. The site also reveals that there is an illustration that features a group of 15 children who are students sitting on little mats on the ground. All of the children are aliens except for one little girl. They say it reminds them of something out of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. A teacher stands before the class and two of the children have their hands raised. You can read descriptions of the characters here.
The site goes on to describe a “Special Forces Tie Fighter.” This fighter is believed to be the one that John Boyega’s character flies in the movie, and crash lands in at the beginning of the film.
"The new Special Forces TIE Fighter is very much the same classic TIE Fighter from the front. But it is black. It isn’t a dull black either, it kind of a shiny black on the body, closer to Darth Vader’s shine than the classic dark TIE Fighter dull black paint. The wings are exactly the same as the TIE wings we’ve seen in the past. The distinguishing feature on these new TIEs is the red markings near the glass cockpit. It is painted red. If the front of the TIE was a clock, two, three, and four o’clock are red on the right. On the left, eight, nine, and ten o’clock are red in that area. The same goes for the back of the fighter."
The final description is of an epic battle that takes place in a forest setting. It includes huge pod like creatures, speeder bikes, and even Stormtroopers using flame throwers. It's a lengthy description but here are a couple excepts from it.
"This planet is inhabited by large creatures with tentacles. They are not unlike the Expanded Universe’s Orgons. But I do not believe they are one and the same, its just a good comparison. The body is more peanut shaped and the tentacles are easily 90 feet long. The body of these creatures is about 2.5 times the length of a speeder bike. The creatures travel fast with their long arms by grabbing onto the tree cover and traveling like a fast kid on the monkey bars.
"In one piece of concept art we see the trees high into the air. To the far right of the frame, two speeder bikes race for their lives! They’re being chased by two of the tentacled beasts. The bodies of the monsters are shaped like peanuts, we can only see the silhouette of these monsters under the tree cover. They have long tentacles, six in total, three on each side of its body and it use those tentacles to transverse the tree tops chasing down the speeder bikers. The bikers are racing side by side practically, but the beasts are also chasing them side by side and it doesn’t look very good for the biker closest to us in the frame. It seems he’ll likely be killed in a matter of moments."
You can read the full description here. There's a ton of really cool stuff that is going to be loaded in this movie. We are getting a ton of bits and pieces from it here and there, but it will be so cool to see how it all comes together in the final product.