Darth Plagueis In The Sequel Trilogy.

These are interesting.

Old McQuarrie Emperor design - distinctly Plagueis-like:



And for those who claim a Muun can't be 'scary', check out this grotesque option:



(Shamelessly ripped from here: http://boards.theforce.net/threads/whos-the-baddie.50004944/page-901)

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Rather then being scary it just looks like he has Space Herpes.

 

That doesn't look a Muun to me...

 

Maybe Lucas was thinking back to that McQuarrie concept piece? Since that early concept looks most like a Munn maybe that's why he chose that race for Plagueis when talking to James Luceno about his book in 2011?

Some other interesting designs (probably old news) but its the first time I've seen these again in almost 30 years.. and it looks like Disney is going back to the well and using whatever is left in the stable. What's old is new again I guess

This is on Tatoonie in Episode 7


Lothal from Rebels anyone?


This looks like some of the episode 7 concepts floating around. Don't know if they adapted it to hermit Luke or Kylo Ren or the 'ancient evil' or what, but there is new concept art showing Kylo Ren, the Chrome Trooper and Rey in an area much like this

 

Interesting... but Plagueis is dead

 

Those are cool pics indeed. In fact, that art with Vader does resemble the “leaked art” we have seen. I think that’s pretty cool. I never related the two.
If I entertain the idea of Plagueis existing again, and all the speculation in the last few posts, along with some speculation for the future… what could the weapon in Ep VII really be…lets take a look:
It’s a planet, they say…or does the planet CONTAIN the weapon…
If Plagueis is there…in spirit. That could be a major weapon in a sense. “Look, Luke, you have to go to this planet and keep watch. For as long as it takes. He cannot awaken and rebuild the Sith” That’s a huge weapon to me, a Sith Lord awakening.
What if Sidious was telling himself he killed Plagueis, just kind of to make himself believe it, like “Yes, of course I killed Plagueis, I had to of…he was sleeping…and im powerful…right? Guys? RIGHT?”
Well…if there is a planet where he “rests” or “is buried” and there is a chance he could awaken…what do you do to fix that? YOU BUILD A PLANET DESTROYING WEAPON! (see: Death Star I and II)
There just isn’t much “canon” to work with as far as Plagueis goes. So if he “came back” from the dead or was “awakened”. There could be merit to that, but as far as we literally KNOW…he isn’t alive. He is dead.
If the midichlorians in Shmi Skywalker were the force “striking back” to create balance…what happens when there is no dark side…does the Light throw the force back out of balance and it has to “strike back” with an “awakening” to refuel the dark side so that there is an endless battle. The only real balance coming when the dark and light are even and alive physically?
If Plaguies wakes up and is powerful…same as Luke…it could actually bring balance…if you take Force balance in that literal of a way.
I wouldn’t be against him being the main villain, but they need to do some REAL work on explaining the dead returning to life.
*drops Mic*

 

This is a pretty interesting point and may very well come into play. I'm actually interested to so see just how much they make reference to Midichlorians in the ST considering it was something only touched on in the PT. We might actually hear Luke say the word Sith also.

 

I think they really need to build another Death Star... it's worked so well, right? I mean the same Jedi can't blow it up three times, right?

 

....But the Death Star is dead.

 

I agree... dead, and should not be brought back...

 

I would be perfectly fine with this.

 

From what we've seen, it seems like at least half of this movie is based off of Ralph McQuarrie.

 

Yeah, that would be. Star Wars was always borrowing elements to create a mythological setting. With Plagueis coming out of the shadow after his apprentice being the huge main villain before, that would mimick lot of classical works or Japanese shonen genre, where you always build up by showing the next villain character being a lot stronger than the one before, or introducing them gradually, by ranks, first comes the liuetenant/apprentice, then the general/master.

Also concept of reppetition is pretty old in mythological standpoint, even in Greek mythology, which was again utilized in Japanese series based on the greek mythology, where the Gods are fighting each other repeatedly since the Age of Myth. And this concept was even included in the Clone Wars Mortis Trilogy.

So I expect something classic and huge load of mythology - not to forget, Long time ago in a galaxy far far away.... Star Wars actually is a myth already.
Tough I will die long time before the whole myth will unfold in it entirety

 

They could always come up with some crazy clearly amazingly fictional way of how plagueis can be brought back. Whether by some technique he used to preserve himself within the darkside or some other reason but it just comes down to what they thought would work with the story. We know almost nothing about what the story even is. I tend to nowadays think we will not see plagueis. The more I think about it the more bringing back a character that is dead even if just presumed dead opens up a can of worms I think they will not want to open. It may bring too many other characters deaths into question and seem a little hoakey. Leaving us ultimately with....

 

It would be interesting to know that Tarkin knew Plagueis was Sheev's master. hehe Sheev, no wonder Plagueis changed his name to Sidious.

 

Here is something for you all to think about on a philosophical level as to why I believe they will not use Plagueis as the main villain. we are led to believe in episode 1 that Shmi Skywalker gave birth to Anakin as a virgin very much like the Virgin Mary. So then who are we to believe is the father? Obviously the Force which could be likened to God. if they were to use Plagueis in the film and make it as if he created Anakin (which palpatine implies in rots, although i think it was a lie to manipulate anakin) then the films would lose much of their mysticism and at the same time it would cheapen the Skywalker family bloodline. If they do talk anymore about Anakin's origin in the movie, I think they will only reinforce the fact that he was created by the force.