Star Wars Unveils Modern New AT-AT And ENORMOUS Star Destroyer With Tons Of Guns For ‘Last Jedi’

We are going to get some updated versions of classic “Star Wars” vehicles for the upcoming “The Last Jedi.” Included in the revamped vehicles are a modernized AT-AT and a gigantic version of a Star Destroyer that is armed with a shit-ton of guns. The First Order is not fucking around in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” based on these two new and improved killing machines.

First up is the AT-M6, the newest version in the evolution of the AT-AT. The “M6” stands for Megacaliber Six, which is the name of the massive cannon in the neck area of the All Terrain Armored Transport.

No word on if engineers have remedied the AT-AT’s issue of being tripped up with shoelaces.

Kevin Jenkins, Lucasfilm’s design supervisor, explains why the new AT-AT won’t get tripped up by tow cables:

“One of the questions that tied us up a lot is the fact that they’d been taken down by snowspeeders in ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ and it felt like everyone else is trying to avoid the problem of a four-legged version of a walker because they had been defeated on Hoth. So I sort of took that on board and I suggested to Rian, ‘Well, instead of a dog, what about a gorilla?’ I can’t remember why I said a gorilla, but I just said, ‘They have a great stance, they are very aggressive,’ and that’s how the idea of the gorilla came. And literally in profile, I molded it over an actual photo of a gorilla to get the initial base pose. The front legs are very heavily armored, and you can see can almost up to the forearm. And again, that’s my take on, ‘You can’t take these down with a snowspeeder.’ They’ve armored up the front or maybe they just cut the ropes because they are too big now. Also, the way they are balanced now is like a gorilla, because their knuckles are turned backwards and they’ve got very high shoulders. They are a completely different poise. Maybe they could even sort of kneel down or something.”

Next up we have the First Order Dreadnought, an updated and super-sized Star Destroyer. The ENORMOUS Dreadnought, which is classified as a Mandator IV-class warship, is “7,700 meters long and sports two orbital auto cannons and a ton of anti-aircraft cannons on its surface.” For comparison, the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer measured 1600 meters in length. Hey, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” made nearly a billion dollars by making a bigger Death Star, so who am I to question making things bigger and better.

As for the Dreadnought, Jenkins had this to say:

“We had all sorts of design ideas and things, but when seeing an early cut with Rian, I just remember straight afterwards we talked to each other and went, ‘We need guns.’ We tried radars because, obviously, you look at Return of the Jedi and there were radar dishes. There’s one on the Death Star. So it was also part of that retro, Flash Gordon-esque sci-fi thing, and we went down that path for a while, but then the cut just went, ‘Nah. Big guns. It just needs big guns.'”

The highly-anticipated “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and all it’s guns is set to arrive on December 15