Although Bistan looks like he might be a second cousin to Wookiees and Ewoks, Lucasfilm story group guru Pablo Hidalgo revealed in Wednesdays episode of The Star Wars Show that the alien is actually from the new Iakaru species. It was more like we told the creature department to come up with a thousand ideas, and then it was like casting the movie. The director says that the design with his wide mouth helped inform what character he ended up becoming. I was like, Weve got to give him that moment in the film, and so [Pao] was born out of that..
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Another alien seen in a video recently released is “Space Monkey”, who laughs hysterically while firing his machine gun. Now you know as much as we do.
As you can see in the photo gallery below, Edrio has a couple of cool nods to previous Star Wars films.
The third season of “Star Wars Rebels” is slated to begin later this year, and at the recently held Star Wars Celebration in London, England, executive producer Dave Filoni previewed the return of a famous “Star Wars” villain in the new official trailer for the Disney XD animated hit. Edwards said that this was his favourite character in the movie, but didn’t want to “give away” what happens to the character in the movie. At booth 2913, one display is presenting fans with a new addition to the Star Wars mythos, a character named Edrio Two Tubes.
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Gerrera is a character who first appeared on the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and he’s being brought to life in live-action form by way of Forrest Whitaker in the first Star Wars anthology film.
