See what Wookie and 7 other sci-fi icons almost looked like in awesome concept art

Yoda, Hagrid, Buzz Lightyear,Beast -- they're all film icons, but what were they originally supposed to look like?

When it comes to character sketches versus the final, cinematic result, you never know what you'll discover. Sometimes the original intent remains entirely or in part until the very end. Other times, the sketch and the product are as far from each other as two things can be.

And with that in mind, here are a few side-by-side comparisons -- some of them are bizarre, some of them are awesome, but they're all worth a look. You can find our favorites below, and then be sure to check out the rest here.

And don't forget to tell us what you think! Should some of these characters have remained true to their earlier counterparts?
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The rising threat of the Sentinels in ominous X-Men art and video

 X-Men: Days of Future Past has some great villains, and this is our first glimpse of how insidiously helpful they are.

Trask Industries, as led by Founder Boliver Trask, is all about protecting humanity and the greater good. Which sounds nice, except for the part where protecting humanity is equated with killing all mutants. A new viral website launched recently dedicated to Trask Industries, and it's decidedly friendly upon first glance. Of course, there are quotes from Boliver Trask, like this one, that give us some pause:

The mutant threat is the defining issue of our time. We can choose to stem the impending tide of extinction or we can stand by passively and allow it to wash away any remnants of our species.

But don't worry about that -- look at this calming video!

That's nice. Those sinister-looking robots of possible killers are keeping us safe!

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Joss Whedon Hints At Scarlet Witch Costume in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’

After the first X-Men film helped bring live-action comic book movies to the mainstream with its infamous black leather outfits, it was Spider-Man and its record-breaking box office performance the following year that proved that modern audiences could accept and embrace the colorful superhero costumes from Marvel Comics.

Marvel Studios launched their franchise with its first self-financed film in Iron Man, featuring faithful adaptations of the original and modern armors from the books, and each character introduced in Marvel films since has been similarly adapted closely to the colorful source material as well, from Loki’s green outfit and horned helmet, to Captain America’s red, white and blue uniform, shield in tow. The Avengers on screen look pretty darn close to The Avengers on the page, but for The Avengers: Age of Ultron, we may start to see some deviations.

As fans following the development of Fox’s and Disney’s upcoming and ambitious projects know, the brother-sister act of Pietro and Wanda Maximoff aka Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have become an item of late. Joss Whedon has written the pair into his Age of Ultron script, and at the same time, at least one of them (Quicksilver) is included in the story of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Evan Peters is playing Quicksilver for Fox’s Marvel Cinematic Universe and on stage at Comic-Con over the weekend he and director Bryan Singer described his costume as something from the ’70s, confirming that his character’s story is with Michael Fassbender’s younger Magneto (Quicksilver’s father).

For the modern-set Avengers sequel, where superheroes will once again suit up in their expected duds, the costumes for Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch – arguably the most extreme of the team – will be altered significantly for the film, especially for Scarlet Witch:

The above image is the classic Scarlet Witch design, but the overly busty and revealing outfit – and red hair piece – won’t make the cut in the live-action version. Whedon tells Nerdist to expect a homage to the headgear but much like the costumes of the first Avengers film, whatever Wanda ends up wearing will be muchmore grounded in reality and likely will be something a little closer to her simpler Ultimates outfit (top of article) of leather pants and strapless tank top.

“She might wear a headband or something that might echo it. The guys at Marvel, the conceptual artists, are phenomenal, and they are so good at taking the essence of what works and interpreting it for the actual human body, and when they paint something you can not only tell how it’s gonna work on a person, you can even tell what fabric it’ll be. They are very specific, very talented. So I’m excited to see the designs. Obviously we want to echo the look that people know, but there’s the classic look and the Ultimates look, but you have to do it in a way that will work. But it can’t be too old school… she can’t wear a leotard.”

Hawkeye’s costume is significantly different than his traditional purple outfit, but closely matches his Ultimates uniform, and we expect a similar adaptation for Scarlet Witch. Early rumors pointed towards Marvel Studios and Whedon using Saoirse Ronan as a model for their take on the Scarlet Witch character, who may be of British decent for the film.

What will Quicksilver (possibly played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) wear? Will Bryan Singer have his own Scarlet Witch in Days of Future Past?

Thor: The Dark World on November 8, 2013, Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014, The Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1, 2015, Ant-Man on November 6, 2015, and unannounced films for May 6 2016, July 8 2016 and May 5 2017.

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Singer finally explains the twisty timeframe of X-Men: Days of Future Past

We knew that director Bryan Singer’s upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past was going to be messing with time, but now we finally know exactly when the sequel will be set.

As anyone who saw The Wolverine this weekend already knows, that post-credit stinger scene gave a glimpse at the potential time frame Singer has in mind. But now he’s finally made it clear, so we can start connecting a few of the dots.

According to an interview in the latest print edition of Empire, fans can expect a 10-year jump from both of the latest formal X-Men flicks:

"It takes place about ten years, give or take, after X-Men 3, and in the past it takes place about ten years after First Class.”

So what can we glean from this little detail? It’s not much of a surprise that they’re jumping 10 years from First Class, as the gap should give them some wiggle room to get everyone set up for the events of Days of Future Past.

But jumping 10 years from the (mostly panned) Last Stand, which was released just seven years ago? We can hope that Singer wants an extra couple of years to help explain away some of the stupider developments still stuck in the canon from that third installment, which saw Brett Ratner step in for Singer after Singer departed to take on Superman Returns.

That closing scene of The Wolverine already established that at least one major development will be undone, and we’re dying to see what Singer has cooked up to (hopefully) right the ship.

How do you think Singer will fix all that WTF-ery from Last Stand?

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