“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” Japanese Theatrical Poster
Releasing on December 16, 2016 is Star Wars: Rogue One (aka Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), which will be the first theatrical Star Wars spin-off.
In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.
Star Wars: Rogue One is directed by Gareth Edwards (2014’s Godzilla) and is based on a screenplay written by John Knoll, Chris Weitz (Cinderella), Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli) and Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation).
The film stars Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler), Diego Luna (Blood Father), Ben Mendelsohn (Killing Them Softly), Forest Whitaker (Bloodsport), Donnie Yen (Ip Man 3), Jiang Wen (Let the Bullets Fly), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) and the voice of Alan Tudyk (Firefly).
During a recent Reddit AMA (see photo), when asked his thoughts on being involved with Star Wars and how Rogue One will compare to the other movies, Donnie Yen replied with: “I think it’s really flattering to be the first Chinese actor in the Star Wars universe and I have full confidence Rogue One will do extremely well, because the force is with me.” Yen also promised the New York Daily News that he’ll do more than just pilot an X-Wing in the film, leading fans to believe he’ll display his martial arts prowess over the course of Rogue One.
Media: Teaser Trailer. | Celebration Reel. | TV Spot. | 1st Trailer. | 1st International Trailer. | 2nd Trailer. | TV Spot 2 | “Together” TV Spot | 2nd International Trailer | IMAX Poster. | 3rd International Trailer | “Hope” TV Spot. | Featurette. | “Jyn & Cassian” TV Spot. | Dream TV Spot. | Trust Trailer. | Effects Featurette. | “Worth It” TV Spot. | 4th International Trailer.
Updates: Watch the new Chinese Trailer below:
The news of the extensive reshoots bothered me because I loved what I saw in that first teaser. I think it struck exactly the right tone of a rebellion reaching its breaking point.
I hope they don’t lighten it too much.
Gonna watch because it’s Star Wars but if you remove the ‘star wars’ title and judge the first trailer on its own merit it looks like some random Sci fi TV episode ..also ‘you’ve been on your own since you were 15’. Apart from that line being a mouthful, didn’t Lucas avoid using ‘years’ as terminology in order to keep the fantasy world intact? Like using ‘parsecs’ to describe the speed of the millenium falcon is cool. That said he did unfortunately create ‘midichlorians’ for ep1.
Watching Donnie Yen’s take on Zatoichi is gonna be a highlight , hopefully not the only one
I don’t envy the director to be honest. With Disney breathing down his neck hopefully he had enough creative freedom to make new aspects in this spin-off
I’m going to walk into it with little expectations. Not a fan of the director either (based on Godzilla), so I’m glad Disney is breathing down his neck. We’ll see. 🙂