Will a gorilla-inspired Walker have any more luck against a tow cable? Jenkins believes so, but no one will know for sure until Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits theaters Dec. They are very aggressive.’ And that’s how the idea of the gorilla came.” One of those “something else”s is the new inspiration for the Walkers, following their debut in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back: “I suggested to Rian, ‘Well, instead of a dog, what about a gorilla?’ I can’t remember why I said a gorilla, but I just said, ‘They have a great stance. So you start off with one vehicle, tank, gun, ship, and it evolves through combat into something else.” “World War II and the Korean War and that era was a heavy influence in all the design, going into the ‘ 60s,” he said, “but also using the mentality that Rian and I talked about a lot, which was an iteration-type idea.
… That was why Rian liked some of the physical models that I was making so much, because it made us realize that ‘You know, if this could have been around 1983 and if it feels good, then we’re fine.’ That was pretty much the internal checkbox that I took forward with that.”īoth vehicles are variations on looks from the original trilogy that Jenkins and his team developed using real-world inspiration. “If it feels like a model and I felt like it probably could have been in the original trilogy, then I’d be happy with it. “The final aesthetic came from something we were doing on ,” Jenkins explained.
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