First ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Photo Revealed; New Cast Members Announced [D23 Expo 2015]
Posted on Saturday, August 15th, 2015 by
Angie Han
Gareth Edwards‘
Star Wars: Rogue One is still over a year away, but thanks to D23 we have a tantalizing taste of the upcoming film today. The very first official photo has just been revealed, featuring
Felicity Jones,
Diego Luna,
Riz Ahmed,
Jiang Wen, and
Donnie Yen (the latter two of whom were
recently rumored for the cast).
And that’s not all.
Mads Mikkelsenand
Alan Tudyk are also announced to be joining
Star Wars: Rogue One, while
Forest Whitaker and
Ben Mendelsohn were confirmed. See the first
Star Wars Rogue One photo, and get more casting details, after the jump.
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StarWars.com]
We were the first to tell you that
Star Wars: Rogue One would be a heist movie about a group of bounty hunters hired by the rebel alliance to try to steal the plans to the Empire’s greatest weapon: the Death Star.
“Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.” – from the opening crawl of
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
We’ve since heard rumblings that the second
Star Wars Anthology film (the one
Josh Trank was previously attached to) would’ve focused on bounty hunter Boba Fett, and it seems (for now) we may have been wrong about the bounty hunter part of our report (more on that later).
Jones stars as a Resistance soldier, and Ahmed and Luna will play Resistance characters as well. Mendelsohn is expected to play a villain. Tudyk will play a mo-cap character. In addition,
Jonathan Aris (BBC’s
Sherlock, The World’s End) might have a role in the film.
Alexandre Desplat, and not John Williams,
will write the score for Rogue One. We don’t know the film’s main antagonist yet, but it’s been reported that
Darth Vader will make some sort of appearance in the film.
There have been rumors that Felicity Jones’ character is related to a Star Wars character we already know, and the
rumor mill thinks
she could be(possible spoilers coming up, invisotext) the daughter of bounty hunter Boba Fett or Sabine from Star Wars Rebels. We’re not sure if this is true, but this would line up with our initial report that it would be a bunch of bounty hunters pulling off the heist for the death star plans. (invisotext ended)
Rogue One is set between the films
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, during the Age of the Empire.
Gary Whitta and
Chris Weitz wrote the screenplay based on an idea by
John Knoll. Filming has begun in London at Pinewood Studios, and
the first set photos have leaked online.
Unlike the previous live-action
Star Wars films,
Rogue One will not revolve around the Jedi or the Force. Edwards described the film at Celebration Anaheim as existing in a more “gray” area than the black and white of the original trilogy, touting that the film would feel “Real…This is a real place that we’re really in.”
Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One opens
December 16, 2016.