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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.

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    That's my assumption as well.
     
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    Apologies if this was posted before:

    http://io9.gizmodo.com/is-this-star-wars-rogue-ones-new-trooper-variant-1759081130

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    I also took note of Riz Ahmed's comment on the BAFTA carpet that Rogue One has a "war movie feel". My guess is something similar to "Longest Day", but who knows?

    I think we'll see how to render a big battle well, rather than Episode II that despite some cool vehicles just never managed to feel particularly epic. Compare to say the start of "Private Ryan", where despite less actual scale, felt entirely more epic and frightening.

    Anyway, I'm more excited than this than I am about VIII at this stage of the game.
     
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    Anyway I think the plot should lead to...

    Star_Wars_A_New_Hope_Opening_Crawl.jpg

    1. It is a period of civil war
    2. Rebel Spaceships striking from a hidden base have won their first victory against the Empire
    3. During the battle rebel spies steal the secret plans of the Death Star.
    4. The plans finally are delivered to Princess Leia.

    So we are going to see a movie not only about how the rebels stole the plans, but also about their first victory against the empire...

    The force will be with us, always
     
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    Casual viewers can stuff it. This movie is totally for us. The epic battle that always kind of got glossed over. An actual war film. Bring it.

    As for advertising...real simple... Lead the trailer with these famous words...

    "I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you"
     
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    I noted that Forest Whitaker said that it was an "edgier" film. Dovetails nicely with the other things we have been hearing.
     
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    Edgier the better, I'm glad.
     
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    Just not to the edge of the Galaxy :p really though, I just hope it doesn't take itself TOO seriously since SW isn't supposed to take itself too seriously .
     
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    I don't think it will go that far,
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    I'm sure that it will have its moments of levity, they do have Alan Tudyk(the guy who played Wash in Firefly) in it. I'm willing to bet that he will be playing the part of comic relief at various points in the film. Although it will be nice to see a Star Wars film with a different kind of tone, but you're right, if they deviate too much, they risk losing that Star Wars feel.
     
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    Quick food for thought. I was watching the latest episode of CJC/collider's Jedi Council. They we're answering that last question of the episode about if they thought Boba Fett would perform disintigrations in Rogue One should he be in the movie. I thought that was a fantastic question and I think it would be truly awesome if we did in fact see this happen in the movie. Man to actually see what Vader was referring to in TESB. (boba fett)
     
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    If that was to happen then is akin it to Daniel Craig's role in TFA .
     
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    I hope they put this disintegration thing in the movie. It would be AWESOME to see what Vader was talking about!
     
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    My bet is that we will see that in the Han Solo story.
     
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    There have been a lot of established character names being thrown around but I am leaning towards the cast in Rogue One being completely new characters. That said, I think the possibility of Diego Luna being Biggs is the strongest one. I don't think we'll see Bail Organa or Mon Mothma at all unless they were recast, but I wouldn't put it past Lucasfilm to withhold information about that. They're sneaky like that. I am most excited about seeing Vader tearing it up. He doesn't need to have a lot of screen time, but it should be significant for sure. I'm guessing he'll roll in during the final act of the film and just destroy everything. I think it would also be cool to have Boba Fett make a cameo, maybe do some disintegrations.
     
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    I would be all for a very serious take on Star Wars with jumpy first person camera work from the heat of the battle. I can picture a scene where a group of commandos breaks into the HQ to secure the DS plans after fighting their way through the chaos of the battle in which "the rebels have scored their first victory" and they are confronted by a very scary Darth Vader who proceeds to decimate the group while the core characters use the chaos as cover to proceed with the mission.

    We'd see like 10 seriously Bad a$$ commandos giving Vader the full arsenal and he is just taking care of business. The three or four "survivors" scurry away to complete the mission and the camera leaves with them. There is a shot back over their shoulders that leaves no doubt that while putting up a good fight, they have zero chance of surviving. Vader would be like the shadow of death haunting them throughout the rest of the mission, even if we never actually saw him on screen again.
     
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