By: Dominic Jones
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story introduced fans to several new alien species. While many of the species aren't named on screen, the Lucasfilm Story Group's Pablo Hidalgo revealed many details about the book Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide. Hidalgo spoke with StarWars.com recently about some of the new aliens in the and how he came up with their backstories.
Hidalgo spoke about what the process is for writing the backstories about the aliens, saying,
"Wherever possible, I try to talk to the Neal Scanlan in the creature
shop to ask about what were their inspirations in creating a character.
When I visited the Rogue One set, I had a crash-course in the
aliens. In the case of Pao, the idea that he had these amphibian roots
was too good to resist. And I thought it would make a fun contrast to
the giant shouting mouth to show the softer side of Pao."
He also discussed the variations of some familiar aliens, saying,
"The color design came from production; I rationalized it by making it
specific to an environment. But I love the idea of diversity within an
alien species. We’ve seen a wider variety of Mon Cal colors in The Clone Wars
than just the red ones. I think having the colorful ones be from
tropical environs and the black-and-white ones be from colder extremes
work with Raddus’ no-nonsense personality. It also allows for someone to
make “cold fish” jokes."
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