Star Wars: The Last Jedi introduces intriguing new creatures
The new Star Wars movie is set to bring new weird and fascinating creatures to the screen.
Entertainment Weekly tuned in and found two of the new species to be introduced in The Last Jedi, both of them inhabitans of Ahch-To, the site of the first Jedi temple and Luke’s hideout at the end of The Force Awakens.
The porgs are furry, wide-eyed creatures that were based off the puffins that live on the Ahch-To’s filming location, the Irish island of Skellig Michael, according to the Independent. “If you go to Skellig at the right time of year, it’s just covered in puffins, and they’re the most adorable things in the world,” writer-director Rian Johnson told EW. “So when I was first scouting there, I saw these guys, and I was like, oh, these are part of the island. And so the Porgs are in that realm.”
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? @EW The Last Jedi cover: Part 3 – Chewbacca and the porgs: https://t.co/JIq7r6FVZP pic.twitter.com/ixXUD1ulD5
— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) August 9, 2017
Ahch-To is also home to the Caretakers, who are described by Johnson as “sort of fish-bird type aliens who live on the island”, who have “been there for thousands of years, and they essentially keep up the structures on the island“. They are more antropomorphic, they wear clothes and speak in alien tongue. They communicate with Luke through a “blubbery sort of Scottish fish talk”. Furthermore, they are all female and their species seems more like a nunnery, which is why Luke is seen as an intruder in their community, whose presence they merely tolerate.
I am so fascinated with the Caretakers right now. #TheLastJedi pic.twitter.com/Xg6fsy8ttu
— Tim Geraci (@TimG311) August 9, 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is set to hit UK cinemas on 14 December.
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