

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.
STAR WARS CLONE FIGHTER CONCEPT ART MOVIE
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. Part 1 mainly includes movie one-sheets from around the world of movies 1-6 and part 2 includes concept art from movies 1-6.
