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Rogue One at 8: Jake Lunt Davies remembers the SE-2 Homestead droid

By Mark Newbold

December 19, 2024

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Jake Lunt Davies is a name well known throughout the Star Wars galaxy for his design work on The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and much more besides (including the incredible Venom horse in this years Venom: The Last Dance) and here he looks back at his work on the SE-2 Homestead droid from the opening of Rogue One.

We caught up with Jake earlier in the autumn at FanX LIVE in Farnborough, a chat you can listen to below.

SourceJake Lunt Davies

Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.

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Jake Lunt Davies is a name well known throughout the Star Wars galaxy for his design work on The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and much more besides (including the incredible Venom horse in this years Venom: The Last Dance) and here he looks back at his work on the SE-2 Homestead droid from the opening of Rogue One.

We caught up with Jake earlier in the autumn at FanX LIVE in Farnborough, a chat you can listen to below.

SourceJake Lunt Davies

Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.

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