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skeleton crew did not connect to the broader Star Wars Universe through cameos sprinkled in, but it carried with it many connections and suggests the rest of the galaxy far, far away in a litany of notes and Easter eggs. But a sneaky Easter egg is apparently even more of a deep cut than fans expected.
At first skeleton crew The audience and their young heroes are swept into the pirate cove of Port Borgo, surrounded by an entire fascinating-looking flotilla. Star Wars boats. But one stood out in particular: a thin, white ship briefly glimpsed as the onyx ash made its way into the port. Some fans linked the design as a classic piece of Star Wars Concept art: Colin Cantwell’s early design for the pirate ship that would eventually become the Millennium Falcon. Cantwell’s slim and narrow design would eventually be iterated and reused in the Tantivo IV Runner blocking, but apparently he could have returned to Star Wars continuity through skeleton crewlike like like Andor He canonized his first star destroyer design as the Cantwell-class Cruiser.
It turns out, however, that the ship was not quite Cantwell’s. Instead, it’s a combination of that design with the scary-looking eagle one from the Gerry Anderson Sci-Fi Classic Space: 1999. Cantwell’s original design for the ship was actually moved away due to a perceived similarity to the Eagle, so the mashup is quite appropriate, and the “Millennium Eagle” came under attack by former ILM modeler and VFX supervisor Bill George, as part of a series imagining A hypothetical show Celebrating life-size scale models of classic sci-fi ships and accessories.
“I have always loved the story of how the design of the pirate ship was changed as it was considered to look too much like the eagle Space: 1999“George said recently Colincantwell.coma site recently created by friends and family of the deceased artist to celebrate his work. “My original concept was to do a mix of the two ships. That was not at all, since they have similar proportions.”
George confirmed that it is his hybrid design that came to skeleton crewafter former ILM colleagues approached him and asked if they could scan the model for use in the galaxy far, far away. “No one told me who was behind the request,” added George, “but when they asked me, I jumped at the chance! I have no idea, but once a model is made, they tend to appear in other media. I’m happy there are bottomed out as a sort of ‘cameo’ appearance.”
The ship has not yet been directly identified within Star Wars‘Universe, so time will tell if the Millennium Eagle You will find a designation as cheeky as its Portmantesteau title, or if, like ARARGOR’s Cruiser, it will be identified by a tribute to Cantwell and George in some other way. But at least a fun little twist on Star Wars‘Design history has returned to the galaxy far, far away on the long walk, an idea almost 50 years in the making.
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