This creature is called a roga. It lives on Geonosis, and thinks the inside of an astromech droid would make a good nesting site. Concept art by Doug Chiang, scanned from The Art of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones by Mark Cotta Vaz.
Read about the deleted massiff and roga scenes here.
We haven’t really had a gunfight between Jango’s ship, the Slave I, and anything else. So it was fun to use Jango’s ship as a vehicle in one of these little action set pieces.
Although the relationship between Anakin and Palpatine doesn’t really relate to [Episode II] - it’s more important to the next movie - I had to set that up because it was important in the overall arc of the story.
It’s not that they can’t see the dark side coming, it’s just that the dark side begins to envelop everything. It’s like walking into a fog. The Jedi’s ability to see lessens as the dark side grows.
Jango was a father to thousands, but he wanted a son that was not altered to be obedient. He wanted him to have his own personality and his ability to be self-sufficient.
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