Porgs are more than meets the eyes.
It’s official: porgs are good.
The screaming, winged guinea pig-owl things weren’t nearly as annoying as many Ewok-hating Star Wars fans feared they’d be in The Last Jedi . (Plus, they’re delicious .) But porgs, though they may look like a wide-eyed way of selling toys, well, that’s true, but they also served a purpose in the movie.
“From what I gathered, Rian [Johnson] had gone to shoot this sequence on Skellig Michael, which is the real island location that stands in for Ahch-To, and that island is covered in puffins,” said The Last Jedi creature concept designer Jake Lunt Davies on the official Star Wars website. Skellig Michael is a wildlife preserve, so the crew couldn’t shoo the birds way or roast them, Chewbacca-style. Instead, Davies explained, Johnson came up with a workaround.
It’s like I’ve always said: behind every great porg, there’s a great puffin.
(Via Star Wars)
