By: Dominic Jones
While everyone is still coming down from the high of the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we needn't forget that another Star Wars movie is coming out in less than a year. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theatres on December 16th, 2016, directed by Gareth Edwards, and will tell the story about how a band of rebels who stole the plans to the first Death Star. Outside of that, as well as the cast, little is known about the film.
Some new, minor details about the film have come to light thanks to online resumes and a report from our friends at Jedi News. First, MakingStarWars.net (by way of Daisy Ridley Fan) came across a character name which may be for the main character of the film. Actress Gabrielle Fritz lists, on her resume on Casting Call Pro, that she played Lyra Erso Picture Double in Rogue One. This had led to speculation that Fitz is the double for Felicty Jones' character in the film, meaning that Lyra Erso is Jones' character name in the film.
In addition to that, Jedi News has a report about three more minor characters and the actors playing them in the new film. They are, Bern Collaco as a stormtrooper, Angus Cook as a mechanic, and Nabilah Karim as a "samurai". Obviously, having a "samurai" in the film raises some very interesting questions. It seems likely that this is a codename of some kind, what significance that codename may have is still up in the air.
As always, this is just a rumor until confirmed or denied by Lucasfilm or Disney
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Hope Gareth Edwards does not forget the Bothans or that Bevil Lemelisk designed the Death Star.
ReplyDeleteGareth Edwards = Director
DeleteGareth Edwards doesn't = writer...hmmm
Bothan's didn't get the plans for the first death star, it was the second,plus in current canon the separatists were working on the death star design so can't see either of those being in it
DeleteThey died getting the second death star plans.
DeleteThey died getting the second death star plans.
DeleteThese arent bothans.....
ReplyDeleteBoy does this look like a steaming pile of Twilight , Hunger Games, rubbish.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell that from a photo and a name? Cool....
DeleteLooks that way doesn't it.
DeleteThe Bothan's thing is from return if the Jedi, not A New Hope...
ReplyDeleteDidn't Bothans steal the plans for Death Star 2...don't recall bothans being mentioned in ep IV
ReplyDeleteSigh.... RIP Kyle Katarn
ReplyDeleteBothans were involved in finding the plans for the second Death Star and that the emperor would be on the space station.
ReplyDeleteBut Kyle Katarn.....
ReplyDeleteVery scant information so far, and only one picture... but I'm far from excited about this. Gareth Edwards makes pretty-looking films, but he gets nothing out of his actors.
ReplyDeleteAnd who are any of these characters and why should we care about them? As noted above by 'Unknown' this could have been a great opportunity to introduce us to a live-action Kyle Katarn, but it seems Disney want to discard all the other Star Wars material and characters in favour of their own ideas - which could very easily result in mundane movie-by-numbers.
Monster was a highly performance driven movie with excellent acting.
DeleteAlso enough with the "but the EU" whining and moaning. The EU was, some exceptions apply, a steaming pile of manure.
Kyle Katarn, however, was not one of those steaming piles and was a very well developed character through a game series revolving around him, as well as countless comics and novels.
DeleteBut the EU!
DeleteSamurai = Vader?
ReplyDeleteStop it with Expanded Universe. If the name "Ben" for Kylo Ren wasn't a big enough hint that it doesn't matter...
ReplyDelete...as great as some of those books were to get us through an era where new Star Wars movies were only done by fans...I am gladly giving them up to enjoy new shows, new movies, and new content.
And some of those books were really, really, really bad.
Err... You do know the new film is made by a "fan" albeit one who's not really understood the source material.
Deletei say here the cast star wars rogue one daniel craig arnold schwarzenegger
ReplyDeletemark hamill tom cruise john travolta carrie fisher adam driver daisy ridley
oscar isaac andy serkis peter mayhew anthony daniels kenny baker jim carrey javier bardem
johnny depp mads mikkelsen dirctor James Cameron and special effects jonathan mostow this all and 2 dirctor jj abarms
What happened to Wedge?
ReplyDeleteThe EU is gone, dead, and declared non-cannon, so forget it and things will make a lot more sense in your head.
ReplyDeleteRogue One is about a small band if Rebels stealing the plans for the first Death Star
ReplyDeleteI need see Bothans!!!! Now!!
ReplyDeleteGotta love the blind glory chasing of so called "fans". You can almost here them chanting "Yes" "Yes" "Yes" as Mickey wees on them from Disney castle above.
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