THE ART OF TFA BOOK

The name "Rey" is an alias. Taken from the pilot helmet. That's Rey's "big secret".

 

Sweet butter crackers !

 

^wow that's amazing!! Is that from the book as well? My theory may not be so off base after all lol

 

There were a couple of Luke waking up in the sand descriptions of people who had apparently seen the film who were posting on reddit just before the movie came out.

I guess there's a grain of truth to everything.

 

Can someone post more pics of the book?

 

Nope its from deviant art, not in the book

 

I found the early lightsaber intriguing. I'd love to learn about the canon history of the Jedi. Also, the Yoda concepts make me wonder if we'll learn about Yoda's species in VIII and IX.

 

Wow is it me or does Maz look like ET in this concept.

 

I can when I get the time... I already posted a couple more in the "deleted scenes/dialogue" thread.
Anything in particular people would like to see?

 

Wasn't there a rumour in the week before the film came out that this scene was in the film.

I just got the book today and whoever put out the spoiler must have just seen it in this book.

 

I have the book... that page is very confusing... it says "yoda" & "yoda alternate"

 

The "Yoda" drawings were done in an early phase where they were basically playing around trying to find ideas. I wouldn't read too much into it. It was probably just the artist playing with the idea of a character that is Yoda's species or one based on the early concepts for Yoda.

 

HOLY COW ROBIN....RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! THE ONE WITH DARTH VADER HELMET IN HIS HANDS LOOK REALLY BAD ASS.....RUUUUNNNNN.....

 

Like a reverse Yoda-TPM situation. Make Maz a puppet in VIII and IX and then Special Edition-alize TFA?

 

I agree.

I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this book!

My take away from looking through all these images is that I'm not an Ian McCaig fan (as far as character concepts go).

No McQuarrie is painful... I don't see any of that "out of this world" imagery. What I mean by this is that the artists all used inspiration from real world locations & cultures in their images. McQuarrie was able to create imagery that didn't need require those cultural references (with exception to things like the Jawas & sand people).

In terms of things that didn't seem like references... check out his Alderann concept art, Bespin concepts & facility designs. Things like the imperial vertical lights... like what's that from you know?

Though I do applaud the efforts of the artists involved... I'm not sure how many or which of them will be involved with 8 (looks like a fresh crew so far). Chiang & some other artists really came up with some fantastic ideas... the underwater death star seemed like an intriguing concept... but into which ocean did it fall? Seems like Endor doesn't have moon sized oceans.

 

• Finn's original name was Sam, then Skylar. He was a white guy who was basically a new Han Solo
• BB8 Was originally a flying droid of size of BB's head
• Poe Dameron was originally called John Doe, and was a black guy.
• Poe was a Jedi, then a bounty hunter, then had his own Wookie pal
• Rey was originally called Kira, and then Thea in the storyboard phase
• Rey's planet underwent a ton of changes. Desert planet, jungle planet, at one point the Imperial ruins were actually the remains of the second Death Star and everything was underwater, she went diving all the time for salvage
• Han and Chewie show up in the Millenium Falcon to go looking for something hidden in the remains of the Death Star. Falcon goes underwater.
• Speaking of Han, he was supposed to have a sick beard + long trenchcoat
• Kylo Ren was originally a bounty hunter who idolized Vader - went around destroying Jedi relics, killing any Jedi he found, and keeping their lightsabers as trophies. Eventually that evolved into him leading a group of bounty hunters around, then that evolved to a group of stormtroopers, then it evolved into a formal organization
• When it was still a pirate group, they used a broken down old Star Destroyer as their moving base
• A huge theme of everything was fire and ice. Blue and red contrasting everywhere. Lava on snow planets, red and blue lightsabers, and so on
• At some point someone was supposed to have a double bladed lightsaber. But one blade was red, the other was blue
• There was supposed to be a new Yoda character. Younger than TPM Yoda, but has a sick beard
• At some point, I think an old climax, has a huge army of like 100s of Red-lightsaber wielding fighters go up against about 20 or so Jedi on a field next to a huge crashed Star Destroyer
• At a different point, the remnants of the Empire used the remains of the Rebel base that was destroyed/mentioned on Dantooine in ANH as their main base of operations. Cool callback.
• Starkiller was originally a new Death Star (dubbed Doom Star), then evolved into a moving weapon that just absorbed/killed planets and then moved on, destroying entire systems. Then went back to a new Death Star. Then a combo (which we got with TFA)

I'll post more later. All of this is from the first 1/3rd of the book. It is well worth the money bros. Check it out.

 

If you're talking about the art book, I concur. It's a great book.

I'm pretty sure it is... I did see most/all of this when I was reading through it.