EPISODE IX: WHERE'S KLAUD?

J.J. Abrams inspects Nick Kellington inside the Klaud creature suit at Pinewood.

A brand new addition to both the Resistance and the Star Wars saga's creature collection, the alien technician known as Klaud, a member of the unique Trodatome species, was certainly a noticeable, and sizeable, figure in the early part of The Rise of Skywalker, helping Poe, Finn and Chewbacca keep the Millennium Falcon in continued service during its busy activities against the First Order.

Klaud would be inhabited by one of Neal Scanlan's regular creature operating team members, Nick Kellington, best known for so memorably playing 'Space Monkey' in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

On location with Greg Grunberg as Snap Wexley.

ROGUE ONE: WHEN WICKET MET 'SPACE MONKEY'!

Originally known as "Space Monkey" when created for ROGUE ONE by Neal Scanlan and his dedicated Creature Team workshop at Pinewood, the cheeky new/old Rebel hero, later give the name Bistan from the Iakaru race, soon became an instant sensation with fans worldwide during his larger than life debut (on stage performed by Nick Kellington) at the London CELEBRATION 2016 event, especially the fun moment when he picked up and chucked a Wicket figure back at host Warwick Davis!

No matter how long or short his ultimate contribution to the film is, we can't wait to see him in action for the finale air/ground battle on the Imperial held tropical world of Scarif.

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