Matticon said:

With all this talk of a US filming unit it has me very excited!!

Will we see Rebel Troopers and Snow Troopers fighting it out in the snow fields of Hoth?!?! It is something I suggested a long time ago (with others).

I do know that Lucasfilm originally had Snow Troopers in these scenes. A book (I lost years ago) called the Empire Strikes Back Notebook had storyboards as well as the script. In the story boards it had a couple of scenes of Snow Troopers running underneath the AT AT walkers.

Here is the book.

This is all very exciting and I wonder what Ady has truly planned.

Matticon

I was able to track down a copy, there are some AWESOME storyboards in here. Here's just a couple: