Many audiences assumed that porgs were created merely as a marketing strategy, tapping into the feelings people had when they saw Return of the Jedi and its Ewoks. The designer of the porgs, on the other hand, revealed they were created for a much more practical reason.
?(We) had gone to shoot this sequence on Skellig Michael, which is the real island location that stands in for Ahch-To, and that island is covered in puffins," designer Jake Lunt Davies told StarWars.com. ?It?s a wildlife preserve and everywhere you look there are hundreds of birds dotted around the landscape."
The abundance of the birds caused the production team to improvise.
?You physically can?t get rid of them, and digitally removing them is an issue and a lot of work, so let?s just roll with it, play with it," Davies pointed out. "And so I think [writer/director Rian Johnson] thought, Well, that?s great, let?s have our own indigenous species.'"
Fans can see porgs for themselves in The Last Jedi, in theaters now.
22-12-2017 - Vidéo