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RUMOR General Rogue One: A Star Wars Story News & Rumors Thread

Discussion in 'Rogue One' started by Voxx, Mar 17, 2015.

  1. Old Biff from the Future

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    that's a great cast
     
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    Do you think today's VIII announcement changes any of this?
     
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    Oh, there's no doubt about that. I suspect that there will be some kind of E8 reveal at this coming Celebration, but most content regarding that movie will happen in next year's event due to the rescheduling while RO takes center stage.

    But I'd still expect to see the first Rogue One teaser to hit in April or May.
     
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    good points. I just wonder if they push back the RO teaser till Celebration and make Celebration a huge RO event. The amount of traction Teaser 2 got from celebration was huge.
     
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    I doubt they'd hold any sort of character type teaser trailer for THAT LONG .
     
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    The way I see it, the trailer was going to hit in April anyways so that they could attach it to AAOU. That it tied up nicely with the convention was incidental. That's why they didn't put the trailers at SDCC or D23 - their plan to attach the trailers to other movies was more advantageous to them.
     
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    Also, wasn't that trailer initially not ever meant to be released ?
     
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    The RO trailer, yes, but I'm talking about the "Chewie, we're home!" trailer.
     
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    So am I as well . They said it was released because JJ was "pressured" by the fans .
     
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    You're misquoting him. He originally was going to hold back on releasing the first teaser for a later point in time, but felt that he owed the fans something to look at.

    They had every intention of publicly releasing the second teaser immediately after they showed it at Celebration Anaheim. Otherwise, they would have to deal with the headache of hunting down hundreds of bootlegs.
     
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    I hope so......
     
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    But "feleing" like he owed something would be basically like saying he was pressured, righty ?
     
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    I wonder if the order of these photos reflects the billing order. If so, then Diego Luna is second billed, which is interesting.

    I'm thinking of the recent rumor that Ben Mendelssohn's character is the scientist whose work makes the Death Star possible, and Felicity Jones's character is his daughter. If so, I wonder if Diego Luna's character is someone who recruits her and Galen to help the Rebellion - or at the very least, is the main Rebel character in the movie, at least initially.
     
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    Given that the movie takes place a few weeks/days before ANH, I think there's a good chance that Diego Luna is playing Biggs Darklighter. He's gone on record as cleverly dodging the question.
     
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    Oh yes, I didn't mention that, but I had it in the back of my mind. Biggs would be a perfect character to have in Rogue One, since, although he's from the OT, for the most part he's a blank slate: we know he was from Tattooine, and eventually joined the Rebellion, but otherwise there's a whole lot of room to craft the details - his personality, more of his background, etc.

    Forgive me if this seems like a stretch, but I can't help myself: assume that Felicity Jones's character really is Rey's mother; the death of Biggs would be a perfect thing for Luke and her to bond over to get their relationship going, wouldn't it? Felicity Jones and a digitally de-aged Mark Hamill: this is going into my head canon, for the time being at least...
     
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    Biggs is the best option of a OT character to come into Rogue One, is still cannon that he was a TIE Pilot before he joined the Rebels?

    Other OT characters that could fill the bill in Rogue One (keeping the Timeline and the whole story in mind):

    - Mon Mothma is clearly calling the shoots
    - General Madine could enter as a rebel intelligence officer and even Admiral Ackbaar could enter as a major Rebell Officer
    - Wedge Antilles should be a leading role in the narrative and Porkins as a wingman would be a nice tribute
    - Nien Numb is an avid secret services agent in the EU and fitts the action very well
    - Off course Han Solo, Chewbacca and Leia Organa could make a cameo but should taken carefully not to unbalance the story
    - Bail Organa could have some significance in the plot development
    - Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader will obviously enter the movie but won't be major players in it (keeping Rogue One a SW Movie witouth the force)
    - Grand Moff Tarkin on the other hand could be Major Bad Guy of this Movie
    - Must likely Boba Fett will enter in this movie because he sells plenty of toys (perhaps we could even see Boba Fett hit someone)
    - I wish we could see other original bounty hunters in the movie (Bossk, IG 88, Dengar, 4 LOM) it would be nice to enconter Greedo again
    - Think the possibilities of the guys in the Mos Eisley Cantina entering the movie (Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan included)
    - And there's always room for a bunch of Jawa's
    - Wonder if any planet form OT will make into Rogue One (most likely Alderan), but almost for sure the movie will end near Tattoine
     
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    I think Luke said that he was planning on going to the Imperial Academy for training before defecting like Biggs did.
     
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    He went to the Academy, signed aboard the Rand Ecliptic as first mate, said goodbye to Luke and friends on Tatooine, jumped ship and joined the Alliance to become a pilot on Yavin IV (that's all the info we got from ANH and the trimmed scenes)
     
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    Are the deleted scenes canon, though?
     
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