'Star Wars: Rogue One' Updates: Costume Designer Shares How They Will Make Aliens Have 'A Sense of Realism'

"Star Wars: Rogue One" has just been deemed as the most anticipated movie this 2016, so director Gareth Edwards and the rest of the cast and crew of the "Star Wars" spinoff is feeling more pressured than ever to deliver a good movie.

Neal Scanlan, costume designer for both "Rogue One" and "The Force Awakens" shared with MTV that they want to make the aliens in the spinoff as realistic as possible.

"In the world of 'Force Awakens,' there was a real mixture of all different kinds, very much like the original Cantina sequence," said Scanlan, referring to the iconic scene on Mos Eisley in "A New Hope." "Working with Gareth now on 'Rogue One,' he sees these aliens as being much more part of the human (world). They co-habitate, they work together and so it's pushed us very much to create characters that are more realistic."

According to Scanlan, they will be giving these aliens a lot human touches so they will feel more alive to the audiences.

"They move more realistically, they're able to emote more than maybe the characters that we did for 'The Force Awakens.' So they're a closer part of the storytelling," he said. "They're less of the world, and they're more of this group who have a mission, and play a part in that."

In "The Force Awakens," there were some aliens who needed to convey emotions better, such as Simon Pegg's scavenger boss Unkar Plutt, as well as the frog-like alien that John Boyega's Finn tried to leave Maz Kanata's (Lupita Nyong'o) castle with.

"He was quite complicated as an animatronic because he needed to do some speaking and he needed to be expressive," he said about Plutt.

For "Rogue One," however, they will be taking things up a notch. There are already several challenges they are facing just to create realistic aliens, and some of the questions they have been asking themselves are: "How do you get these people dressed in the creature costumes? How do you keep them cool? How do they see? And how do the people who are performing them on the outside, the operators, get to see in them as well?"

Their approach in making aliens give compelling performances is to treat them just the way they would the rest of the cast.

"We didn't try to treat them as a special effect," Scanlan admitted. "We just wanted them to be part of the 'Star Wars' world, and to feel natural in that world."