It ’s not a coincidence that Apple ’s slick lily-white earbuds appear like they could sink in right into the helmet of aStar Warsstormtrooper . As The Vergereports , Apple ’s former chief design officeholder Jonathan “ Jony ” I ve really line breathing in from the ubiquitous effect of the Dark Side .
In a 2017 interview withThe Wall Street Journal , I ve mentioned having say J.J. Abrams ( who co - spell , produced , and directed 2015’sStar Wars : The Force Awakensand 2019’sStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalker ) that he had “ the look of the original stormtroopers in mind ” while developing the earbuds .
The ties betweenGeorge Lucas ’ futuristic franchise and Steve Jobs ’ technical school imperium do n’t halt there . When costume designer Michael Kaplan started planning apparel forStar war : The Force Awakens , he bed audiences would be expecting stormtroopers to see more modern than they had in the original celluloid .
“ [ J.J. Abrams ] want to hold on to the uniqueness and not get too far forth from the stormtroopers , keep that iconic spirit , but still have 30 twelvemonth of difference , ” KaplantoldVanity Fair . “ I signify , it would be a little odd to have the same stormtroopers this much by and by when Leia and Han are so much old . ”
SinceApplehad prove itself so adept at updating its designs — while ensuring that products were still like a shot placeable as Apple’s — Kaplan asked himself “ What would Apple do ? ” He , like Apple ’s designers , also had to factor functionality into his workplace . The original vacancy - formed stormtrooper uniforms would n’t have been durable enough to withstand all the action in the latest trilogy , so Kaplan had to outfit the new crop of stormtroopers in “ much heavier ” ones .
Hopefully , Kaplan at least set off the unwieldiness with better visibility . WhenMark Hamillhad to put on a stormtrooper uniform in 1977’sStar state of war : A New Hope , he famouslyexclaimed , “ I ca n’t see a thing in this helmet ! ” which Lucas then added to the script .
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