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The skeleton crew it is not connected with the wider one Star Wars universe through splashy cameos, but he brought with him a lot of connection and suggestions to the rest of the galaxy far, far away in a litany of offhand notes and easter eggs. But a sneaky Easter egg is apparently even more of a deep cut than fans were expecting.
In principle The skeleton crew the public and its young heroes are dragged to the pirate cove of Port Borgo, surrounded by a whole flotilla of charmers. Star Wars ships But one stood out in particular: a thin, white ship briefly glimpsed as him Onyx Cinder made his way into the harbor. Some fans pegged the design as a classic piece Star Wars concept art: Colin Cantwell’s first design for the pirate ship that would eventually become the Millennium Falcon. Cantwell’s thin and narrow design will eventually be iterated and carried over into the Tentative IV block runner, but could apparently make his way back in Star Wars continuity through The skeleton crewas well as how Andor canonized his first Star Destroyer design as the Cantwell-class Arrestor Cruiser.
It turns out, however, that the ship was not enough of Cantwell. Instead, it’s a mashup of that design with the Eagle Lander similar to Gerry Anderson’s sci-fi classic. Space: 1999. Cantwell’s original design for the building was actually moved by a perceived resemblance to the Eagle, so the mashup is quite appropriate – and the “Millennium Eagle” was brought to life by former ILM modeler and VFX supervisor Bill George, as part of a series I imagine a hypothetical show celebrating the life-scale models of classic sci-fi ships and props.
“I always loved the story of how the design of the Pirate Ship was changed as it was felt that it looked too much like the Eagle. Space: 1999“, George said recently ColinCantwell.coma site recently created by friends and family of the deceased artist to celebrate his work. “My original concept was to make a mash-up of the two ships. It was not difficult because they have similar proportions.”
George confirmed that it was his hybrid design that did it The skeleton crewAfter that former colleagues at ILM reached out to him and asked if they could scan the model for use in the galaxy far, far away. “No one ever told me who was behind the request,” George added, “but when I was asked, I jumped at the chance! I have no idea, but once a pattern is made, I tend to see in other media.I’m glad she came into the background as a sort of “cameo” appearance.
The ship has not yet been directly identified Star Wars‘universe, so time will tell if the Millennium Eagle it will find a designation as brazen as its portmanteau title, or if, like the Arrestor cruiser, it will be identified by a tribute to Cantwell and George in another way. But at least a fun little twist Star WarsDesign history has made its way back to the galaxy far, far away – an idea nearly 50 years in the making.
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