"EVERY SAGA HAS A BEGINNING..."

Tuesday 15 October 2019

THE 'PHANTOM' AT TWENTY: EVASIVE MANEUVERS!


The battle intensifies for Anakin Skywalker as he and Artoo evade the continued enemy fire and attacking fighters in this great production art by Doug Chiang. Soon enough, the boy unwittingly sends his craft spiralling into the heart of the Droid Control Ship, with further danger ahead from surrounding Battle Droids as it crashes down powerless in the main hangar.

Note the slightly different cockpit design for the Naboo Starfighter seen in the painting, the final look not yet fully locked down at that stage. Additionally, by the final battle it was decided that, for dramatic purposes, only one Trade Federation vessel needed to be seen - the Droid Control Ship, the rest of the blockade having been prior dispersed once the planet had been successfully taken - an earlier scene with Obi-Wan and Ric Olie noticing this when the Naboo cruiser approaches the planet having been filmed but cut in post production.





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