Wookiee Stormtrooper Images Revealed By Art of Solo Book

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Of course , how things play out in the finished film was n’t in place from the beginning . The script locomote through different variations over the course of its development , and the original plan for the Wookiees would have contribute to an heart - catch visual . We almost get to see Wookiees fighting as stormtroopers .

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The bookThe Art of Solo : A Star Wars Storydetails this , bring out a screenplay draft from 2016 Chewbacca and other Wookiees were defend in the Battle of Mimban , apparel in their stormtrooper armour . The opinion was this would make things easy for the fauna department , since they would n’t have to produce a overplus of"articulated Wookiee faces"for the scene . you’re able to check out concept artwork of the Wookiee stormtroopers below :

It would appear Han ’s fateful first meeting with his succeeding cobalt - pilot program went through several iterations before the caged " savage " was settled on . latterly , it was confirmed at one point , Chewbacca and Han fought alongside each other in a multi - species army united against the Empire ( and Chewie saved Han ) . In this casing , the two admirer would have been paired up as unwilling soldiers , battling for a cause they do not believe in . Though Han rapidly draft in the Empire so he could turn back to Corellia ASAP and reunify with Qi’ra , he eventually learned he was n’t the best burst in an organisation that pride itself on order and authority . Through the different versions , it sounds like the blanket strokes remained , the creative team just needed to iron out the specifics .

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While some of these options may have been better than what ’s in reality inSolo , that ’s not to say the " Han meets Chewie " picture is defective . In fact , Howard and caller merit credit for underplaying it a mo . This checking of the box is just a moment that happens , not something portray as a life history - alter effect . Them thwart route in an larger-than-life battle would have been great spectacle , but a more intimate first appearance where it ’s just the two of them working together to bust out of imprisonment was a fun genesis for a decades - long friendship .