Palpatine may have been revealed as still alive in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but that doesn’t mean he was in the best of shape. When Kylo Ren discovers him in his Sith temple on Exegol, the former emperor is little more than a corpse, with his decrepit form being hoisted about the place by a gigantic life-support system. His appearance is pretty “bleurgh”-worthy as it is, then, but things could have been even more gruesome given the initial plans for his design.
Creature and make-up supervisor Neal Scanlan has given an in-depth interview with Collider in which he revealed a lot of fascinating details about how certain concepts and characters evolved over the filmmaking process. In the case of Darth Sidious, Scanlan explained that initial sketches depicted Palpatine in a greater extent of deathly decay, even comparing him to the monstrous vampire from Nosferatu.
“Luke Fisher,...
Creature and make-up supervisor Neal Scanlan has given an in-depth interview with Collider in which he revealed a lot of fascinating details about how certain concepts and characters evolved over the filmmaking process. In the case of Darth Sidious, Scanlan explained that initial sketches depicted Palpatine in a greater extent of deathly decay, even comparing him to the monstrous vampire from Nosferatu.
“Luke Fisher,...
- 3/20/2020
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