In addition to the image of the dark-colored X-wing from the Dark Horse comic itself, I was also able to find photos of an excellent repaint job on a pair of Fantasy Flight miniatures, inspired by the Dark Horse “stealth squadron” design, courtesy of Fantasy Flight forum member WizzBif :
#STAR WARS CLONE FIGHTER CONCEPT SERIES#
One of the early storylines in that series had the Rebels assembling a “stealth squadron” that flew black/dark grey X-wings. Then I realized, it was the Dark Horse Star Wars seriesfrom the past couple of years that I was thinking of.
It’s one of the new Episode 7 style X-wings, of course, but the black paint job reminded me of something. The more I thought about it, the more I’d realized that this black X-wing looked mighty familiar. Sharp-eyed fans also noticed a black X-wing that appears to have orange or red markings on its wings.
#STAR WARS CLONE FIGHTER CONCEPT UPDATE#
Photos taken this past week from an aerial drone showed some fascinating details, including a full-sized Millennium Falcon exterior (well, half of the Falcon, anyway!) and what looks like the blue and white X-wing previously shown in JJ Abrams’ “Force for Change” update video this past July. Is it possible, though, that we’ve already seen a predecessor to this new starfighter?įilming for Episode 7 at the former RAF base at Greenham Common seems to center around a group of bunker-like shelters that were once used to house cruise missiles, now apparently doubling as underground starfighter hangars. The planet's lower level inhabitants were modelled to look like they were part of a ‘rough trade' or took part in criminal elements.With the release of multiple aerial shots of the Star Wars: Episode 7 location set at Greenham Common, one of the more tantalizing images has certainly been that of what appears to be a black X-wing. George Lucas challenged the design team to make the city/planet look better than Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner (which funnily enough starred Harrison Ford who had become a box office A-list celebrity at that point following his two Star Wars roles and his massive Lucas produced hit, Indiana Jones).Ī key feature was that personal vehicles could not be found on the lower streets. They are literally a factory production line of humans Iain McCaig confirmed the idea was they were going “back to George's THX days”.įirst mentioned in the Thrawn ‘ Heir to the Empire‘ novels by author Timothy Zahn and spied at the end of Return of the Jedi celebration scenes and in a bit of The Phantom Menace (refer to the Jedi Temple scenes with Yoda, Mace Windu and friends), Attack of the Clones was Star War's first chance to truly flesh out the planet of Coruscant. There's no personal attention, they're just soldiers being trained”. The cloned troopers (from Jango Fett's DNA) were taught in giant classrooms.Īrtist Edwin Natividad stated “it's assembly line learning, no individuality.
The Clone Trooper classrooms are a reference to Luca's first film, THX-1138 It also shows some of the challenges that producer Rick McCallum faced and how his production team overcame them.ġ. There is more than just amazing concept art in there, it has plenty of facts and trivia about how the film came into being.Īuthor Mark Cotta Vaz shines a good insight into how director and writer George Lucas would make decisions about what creatures and space ships and costumes would go into the film – it's an iterative process that largely appears to have worked.
The Attack of the Clones came out on and seeing as that's close enough to a 20 year anniversary, I had a look through my ‘The Art of Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones' book.
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