The folks at ABC News take a look inside the San Francisco HQ of ILM where members of the visual effects team were brainstorming ideas as to how the space monster, affectionately dubbed the space-o-pus, should meet its end.
“Could it dismember?” Howard asked. “Could it, like, tear apart?”
That’s when design supervisor James Clyne spoke up.
“Is it too graphic to have all its flesh ripped off at the last second? You just see a skull for a moment?” Clyne began.
As the idea was met with a few awkward laughs, Clyne asked sheepishly: “A little too far?”
The scene takes place as the story’s heroes — Han, Chewie, Qi’ra, Lando and Beckett — make the infamous Kessel Run aboard the Millennium Falcon and suddenly awaken the enormous creature.
“Solo” visual effects supervisor and co-producer Rob Bredow was sitting with Howard when Clyne floated his idea.
“Ron goes, ‘Oh!’ and I thought his laugh was like, ‘That’s too gross!’” Bredow said.
For Howard, though, the idea worked.
“If what we’re trying to do is have a monster that the 12-year-olds love, you know, honestly, revealing the skull…” Howard pondered aloud a moment later. “I’d want to see it.”
“The whole room goes, ‘Oh, way to go, James!’” laughs Bredow. “Because not only was it a really fun idea, it was probably the hardest possible thing James could have come up with.”
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