Well, this certainly would have been, different.

Snoke, the Supreme Leader of the First Order was, if only for a short period of time, was to be a female character, says Ivan Manzella, a creature designer on Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy. You can read what Manzella had to say on the matter while speaking with Force Material down below.

“I think initially when they spoke about her, [Snoke] was female. Because the first image I did I based on a female, but then that just very quickly went away. So either it was just in passing or something. But I think I just did one image. And that was it, and no one else did any more. I don’t know if anyone did really. Then, from then on, it just became the male.”

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Interesting. Is this before Disney had committed to bringing back Emperor Palpatine? Or before they decided to make Snoke a clone of the Emperor? Perhaps they planned for the Lady Snoke to still be a gender-modified clone of Palpatine? Or maybe they just pulled both Snoke the Clone and Return of the Emperor out of their Mouseketeer ears.

Yes, I agree. Intriguing. Intriguing indeed.

Manzella then spoke about the inspiration for Snoke.

“I actually based him on Peter Cushing. Because there were always Snoke theories that he was Grand Moff Tarkin, which I always found quite amusing. You can see there are elements there. The maquette, there’s elements of Peter Cushing, just the cheekbone and the profile and stuff, but he wasn’t meant to be Peter Cushing. He was my Hammer reference, kind of thing.”

It’s great that Manzella chose Star Wars royalty in the great Peter Cushing. An iconic and unforgettable character who wasted none of his nine minutes on screen. I can see Cushing’s likeness in Snoke now, and it may be sometime before I can unsee it. Manzella continued explaining how the first version of Snoke had a much more gruesome appearance.

“He was quite graphic in that first iteration, in Force Awakens. You don’t really see much, he’s a hologram, I guess. What they did to him there is they got rid of some of his … they made his face a bit more friendlier, he went more to a flesh color and some of his face was softened up a bit so it wasn’t so graphic. He originally had that hole in the side of his face taken out, it was really kind of nasty stuff going on. I quite liked the idea of him having a marble skin type, all the veining like you get in marble, and these piercing, blue eyes. But he kind of evolved and got a little bit softer, I think.”

The following meme pretty much sums up my current emotional state.

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