Indie Revolver has just reported leaked concept art of Lupita Nyong’o’s newly confirmed CGI character, Maz Kanata, who will debut on December 18, 2015 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The character almost resembles an adult “ET” alien, except without the retractable neck and glowing finger. The leaked character design appears to be appropriate to have not been done with practical effects like many of the other sets and props that have been released, most likely because it’s long neck and oval shaped head would be quite difficult to reproduce believably with makeup or other practical effects.
An outline of a face that looks extremely similar to the drawing can be seen very briefly in The Force Awakens trailer number two, which seems to validate Indie Revolver’s report.
Author: Len Cline
Len Cline has been a fan of Star Wars since he saw a pirated “A New Hope” with a TV dinner when he was around 3 (He only remembers the Tantive 4 battle), he was in his “Primary Star Wars Introduction Age” (PSWIA for short) (aka. 7 years) when “Revenge of the Sith” came out. Len fell out of the active Star Wars fandom for a few years and explored the majority of science fiction eras (except for the 90’s , which is a big deal (Except for Star Trek) until he was brought back through the Star Wars podcasting community. Len loves to read science fiction (Asimov being his favourite writer) and also enjoys the classics (Dostoyevsky anyone?). He loves all things philosophy (Cogito ergo sum!), politics (De Toqueville and Machiavelli!), and poetry (Mathew Arnold and T.S. Eliot for the win!). He is also an anglophile. Len’s worldview is colored by many things in his life: He’s a devout Catholic and holds his beliefs high, as well as believing that morality and personal responsibility are paramount. Len hopes to move to Europe to attend college for philosophy and/or other social sciences. He then aims to put his studies to good use for the world (hopefully just like Luke Skywalker!).