Joe Johnston talks "McQuarrie Vader" costume

[Probe Droid]

Just got this e-mail. Pretty cool stuff. Might be old hat to the diehards.
http://www.starwars.com/vault/books/news20100112.html

 

[TomSpinaDesigns]

awesome link... that costume is such a neat sort of "tangential" piece of the SW universe and infinity cool IMO. What a shame that it wound up in the trash!

It may not be new but the pic of the costume on a stand w/death star tiles in the bg is awesome!

Tom

 

[darth_myeek]

Joe is my absolute favorite. Thanks PD for posting this.

-DM

 

[vader71]

Thanks for the link, what a great story.
I agree the death star panel in the background is also really cool to see.

 

[MooCriket]

Thanks for the link, have not seen or heard that before. Great info!

 

[steveo]

Joe is my absolute favorite. Thanks PD for posting this.

-DM

Yeah, too bad he didn't get to design the PT. Would have been cool to see what he came up with.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Yeah, too bad he didn't get to design the PT. Would have been cool to see what he came up with.

The Juggernaut or "Turbotank" was his design unless I'm mistaken.


I really like that Vader design. I remember when I was a kid in the early 80s that a friend had a knockoff SW action figure case that had characters that looked something like this Vader and the early McQuarrie designs. I always thought it was from another movie.

 

[CTF]

Thanks for posting that!

 

[Twinsen]

Is it just me or does this scream "Batman Begins" ?

 

[carbonitekid]

Is it just me or does this scream "Batman Begins" ?

I can certainly see where your coming from there.

Very interesting link, thanks.

 

[Cibernite]

Now I see the resemblence. The way the armor looks . Nice link guys.

 

[Apollo]

Thanks for the cool link probedroid.

Joe is da man!

 

[jla1987]

Thanks for the link! It does kind of have a Batman Begins look.