STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Concept Art Reveals An Entirely New Take On The Star Destroyer

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Concept Art Reveals An Entirely New Take On The Star Destroyer

One of the coolest moments in the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailers came when we caught a glimpse of the Empire's classic Star Destroyers, but they very nearly boasted a much different look...

By JoshWilding - Jul 14, 2020 02:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars

While Emperor Palpatine's return from the dead remains one of the most confusing and weird moments in the Star Wars franchise, the Final Order's arrival in the form of countless Star Destroyers was an undeniably cool scene in The Rise of Skywalker (even if those red "Sith Troopers" did look more than a little ridiculous). 

Now, concept artist Doug Chiang has shared one of his early takes on the Star Destroyers for the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga and, as you can see, they look quite a bit different! 

"I thought a double-decker might be fun," he says in the Instagram post below. An argument could be made that these much larger Star Destroyers would have been twice as deadly, but there was ultimately no need to fix what wasn't broken, hence why director J.J. Abrams ultimately went in that classic direction for the iconic ships. 

Check out this alternate take on The Rise of Skywalker's Star Destroyers below:
 

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dracula
dracula - 7/14/2020, 3:01 AM
Fleet of Star destroyers is cool I guess, but they could have done more. Like seriously that movie had a sith holocrom and malachor, they just didn't call them that for some reason.
Why not use the sith superweapon
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 7/14/2020, 3:41 AM
@dracula - My thoughts exactly. I get that Holocrons and planets like Malachor or Moraband aren't common knowledge amongst the movie audience, but it would've been a point of familiarity to some of the more invested fans if they did end up using them.
dracula
dracula - 7/14/2020, 3:06 AM
No need to explain things just recast Han, Luke and Leia and pick up a few years after Return Of The Jedi and pretend this trilogy never happened
Kyos
Kyos - 7/14/2020, 3:12 AM
@dracula - just recast Han, Luke and Leia and pick up a few years after Return Of The Jedi

No.

pretend this trilogy never happened

Kinda yes.
dracula
dracula - 7/14/2020, 3:19 AM
@Kyos - so you would rather the half assed goodbyes we got in the sequels be the last we see of the characters?

Not like some of them havent been played by others before and plenty of big characters are recast.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 7/14/2020, 3:49 AM
@dracula - Star Wars isn't adapted from something else like James Bond or Batman, so recasting is far gnarlier than those other repeatedly recast roles. This would be more like recasting John McClane or Neo, which were roles not only defined by their actors, but in many ways the actors were defined by the roles.

I can imagine doing it if they find the perfect replacement (like Sebastian Stan seems to be for Luke). But as Ehrenreich showed, casually recasting these roles won't fly. And it also proved that I don't trust the current Lucasfilm regime to do it right.
Knightrider
Knightrider - 7/14/2020, 3:17 AM
How about adding a deleted scene where Luke wakes up after the party on Endor and goes what a dream
FrankieDedo
FrankieDedo - 7/14/2020, 3:43 AM
that is similar to the First Order Star Destroyer, just slightly changed between the decks, so not that "entirely new take" but whatever.

The "basic" FO destroyers we see in all three films are double decked.

It is a different thing than the Final Order destroyers, that are just upscaled Imperial-I class destroyers. (i mean, you can clearly see them in the concept lol)

This was probably a concept for the main/admiral ship Steadfast, the one that redirects the signal from the infamous tower.


This would have been cool, so it would have made the main ship more "special" instead of a simple FO destroyer. It would have made a bit more sense, but i suspect this is another lack originated from the messy production that led to the wreck we saw in cinemas.
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