GENERAL GRIEVOUS ORIGINAL DESIGNS : WHAT GEORGE ALMOST APPROVED!

Star Wars Theory

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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When George Lucas began his quest for a new villain for Revenge of the Sith, he gave his creative team a simple direction: “create a droid general.” Giving a talented art department the chance to design a brand new villain from scratch resulted in some very imaginative inspiration. Today we are going to check out the concept designs that General Grievous could have looked like if George had approved them. Let’s find out the different ways George’s creative team experimented with making Grievous robotic and scary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you would join us.
0:06.3	All of these films have the ultimate bad guy, which is the Emperor.
0:11.2	But in addition to that, there's the sidekick, being Darth Vader in episode 45 and 6, Darth
0:18.1	Maul in episode 1, or Count Duku in episode 2.
0:21.8	So we're always trying to work with a sidekick and apprentice to the Dark Lord.
0:27.7	Alright, what scares you, right?
0:29.5	Alien of death.
0:30.5	No eyes.
0:31.5	I would say those people are afraid of death.
0:34.0	And death's like imagery.
0:36.7	And I think what made Alien scary was no eyes.
0:40.4	Like teeth.
0:41.4	But this thing has to act.
0:42.4	No taste.
0:43.4	By Alien, that's what was scary.
0:44.4	Most people are afraid of insects.
0:45.4	Insect eyes, mandibles, teeth like that.
0:47.6	Yeah, and he didn't seem like he was opposed to it actually being a droid or not being
0:52.2	a droid to you, so it could be a number of things.
0:54.3	As long as it's scary.
0:55.3	That's the thing.
0:56.3	Hey there, everyone.
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