Star Wars Episode 8 is set to release in almost exactly one year from now. We still don't know the film's name and haven't seen much of the film, but there are definitely some rumblings on the internet.
We have been wondering exactly who Supreme Leader Snoke actually is to no avail since we saw him towering above Kylo Ren as some sort of ultra evil CGI thing. We still don't know who he is or even if he's actually that huge compared to humans, but we do know that he's not Darth Plagueis and that he might be a giant puppet in the next official film.
According to Making Star Wars (via GamesRadar), Snoke will not be CGI throughout the entirety of Episode 8, but actually a gigantic puppet controlled by several crew members during scenes with human counterparts.
"Snoke will not be a character generated in a computer. Instead he will be a huge puppet around seven to eight feet tall, taking several people to operate and a man inside a suit to make him walk. Stylistically, it seems as if Snoke may be CGI generated for the holographic communication sequences, but when he has scenes in Episode VIII next to real flesh-and-blood humans like Kylo Ren he will be a practical puppet with facial features operated by the crew."
Directed by Rian Johnson and starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie, and Benicio del Toro, Star Wars: Episode 8 opens in cinemas on December 15, 2017.
