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A Visit to the Set
chatting on his iPhone, resting the
still-mending ankle that was broken by
the door of the Millennium Falcon just
six weeks before our visit. For medium
and close-up shots, he wisely trades his
boots for purple Asics sneakers to help
facilitate his recovery - which, as
every fan knows by now, was amazingly quick.
Breaking from the action at
Starkiller Base, Gouldsbrough whisks
us off to other areas at Pinewood. As
we walk, she spots actor Roger Moore
rocketing by in a golf cart toward the
snow set. Stephen and I wonder aloud
if, given Moore's long tenure as James
Bond, he's been granted a lifetime pass
to visit Pinewood's stages.
We stop off at the production's
creature shop, which is housed in a
building permeated by the "foul
stench" of recently fabricated foam
rubber; the building's security guard
proudly states, "I don't even notice the
smell anymore." The company credo
of maximum verisimilitude is on
display as we spot a huge number of
practical creatures in various degrees of
preparation, a menagerie that might
have been accomplished digitally in
the trilogy of Star Wars prequels.
At the entryway, just beyond the
front door, two R2-D2s - complete
with the extensive weathering one
would expect from 30 years of adventuring since the timeframe of Return of
the Jedi - stand ready to save the day.
Creature sketches and designs adorn
the walls, and many finished masks are
covered in protective tarps.
A large creature, seated in a
throne-like chair and clutching a chalice, is easily twice the size of a typical
human; named "Grummgar," it
requires several puppeteers to operate.
The largest beast in the shop is the
"happabore," which looks something
like an elephantine hippopotamus
with the snout and teeth of a wild boar.
It's clear how the scale and detail of
both the masks and animatronic creatures will help bring the requisite
believability to the screen.
Following a flurry of last-
Top: Multiple
cameras are rigged
to an X-wing
cockpit on a gimbal
rig. Middle:
Chewbacca, Solo
and Finn prepare to
infiltrate Starkiller
Base. Bottom:
Concept art
for the new
"flametrooper"
uniform looms
behind constructed
stormtrooper
helmets.
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