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The “Star Wars” creature supervisor reveals the challenges of creative believable aliens and droids.

We still have a year and a half to find out what’s going on with Rey in “Star Wars: Episode VIII,” but it doesn’t mean that there’s no more “Star Wars” until then. This year marks the arrival of Lucasfilm’s first spin-off anthology film, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” and director Gareth Edwards promises a darker, grittier, more realistic look at the fantastical galaxy we all know and love.

According to Neal Scanlan, who worked on the creatures for both “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Rogue One,” that sense of realism will translate into how the aliens appear in this prequel story — so basically, don’t expect any lavishly shot, creature-crowded scenes in the film.

“In the world of ’Force Awakens,’ there was a real mixture of all different kinds, very much like the original Cantina sequence,” said Scanlan, referring to the iconic scene on Mos Eisley in “A New Hope.” “Working with Gareth now on ’Rogue One,’ he sees these aliens as being much more part of the human [world]. They co-habitate, they work together and so it’s pushed us very much to create characters that are more realistic.”

“They move more realistically, they’re able to emote more than maybe the characters that we did for ’The Force Awakens.’ So they’re a closer part of the storytelling. They’re less of the world, and they’re more of this group who have a mission, and play a part in that.”

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