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Star Wars Rogue One Trailer Hits! Coming December 2016
April 7, 2016 by brennon
Keeping the thrill of Star Wars bubbling over within the minds of geeks everywhere we have Star Wars: Rogue One coming later this year in December. The new trailer for the movie has just hit and it's looking awesome!
This team of Rebels will be working together to try and steal the Death Star plans and work out what the Empire has in store for them and the rest of the galaxy. The action looks great with some interesting characters from all walks of life within the Star Wars universe.
Anything that expands upon the Star Wars universe has got to be good right?
What did you think of the trailer?
Now I like the look of this, I’m pleased it really does have the visual feeling of Episode IV.
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that what i was to say AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH~~~~!!!! there i am done 😀
Holy Crap!!!! Now i’m wishing my life away… Come on December!!!
This looks really good and as others have said I also like the Episode IV feel.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo………………………..
Looks miles better than Episode VII. Roll on December!
My thoughts exactly!
I just had a nerdgasm.
Oh thank god. My Star Wars fix, only hope it keeps me going until Dec 2017.
I thought the movie was going to about Rogue Squadron , not a commando raid ? Or have I got it all wrong again ….?
I would love a movie about Rogue Squadron 😀 , it would be so cool. This one is about the Rebels stealing the plans for the first Death Star and I cannot wait…..
If you read the Rogue Squadron books by Michael Stackpole you find out that Rogue Squadron is an elite unit that is capable of handling a wide assortment of missions that include commando and missions of a more undercover variety. So it is very possible that this is about Rogue Squadron.
Why is it, every time I think I’ve finally grown up into a mature adult (whatever the hell that’s supposed to be), Star Wars comes along and just like that I am six years old again?
If Star Wars could do for my body what it does for my soul, I would literally be immortal. 😀
I hear you! I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll enjoy this one, too 🙂
Scratch that – I’m upgrading my feelings from “cautiously optimistic” to “super excited”
@rasmus – people sometimes ask me: “James, you’re a historical gamer and writer. Star Wars is sci-fi. Is this really your genre?”
Well, yes. Star Wars is sci-fi. But it is also history. After all, doesn’t it take place . . .
. . . a long time ago?
😀
And the lamest pun goes to…
Awwwww … Now Oi’s wantz to cry. 🙁
Just kidding. 🙂
Well, the original films date back to the Seventies, so as far as I am concerned war gaming in that setting counts as historical re-enactment, and thus is precisely your genre, @Oriskany… 😉
Lot of parallels to World War 2 history in the Star Wars series.
Unlike the prequels which were sold as movies for 10 year olds specifically (they were not made for adults) – these movies are very much billed for adults. Believe it or not.
Most of the women I know often say that men never really grow up, and simply remain big kids with more expensive toys. On that basis, I think we both have an excuse for an exuberant love of Star Wars that doesn’t begin to look unbecoming merely because of a few grey hairs.
Of course, one or two of those women also love Star Wars, so I guess remaining a big kid forever is in no way strictly a bloke thing. That said, those women combine their love of light sabres and the force with also being good at this whole ‘responsibility’ thing that I hear is considered important in adulthood but that I am completely useless at. 🙂
Great. And the Stormtroopers have the classic look as well 😎
Can’t wait
I got goosebumps! Go Forrest! 🙂
Should be good!
Can’t wait to see what Whitaker can bring to the screen in this 😀
Looks good. I hope the movie lives up to the atmosphere set in this trailer.
Did I really feel goosebumps when I saw AT-AT’s on the beach….!!! 🙂
I think we all did.
AT-AT’s On A Beach – far, far better than Snakes on a Plane!
Can some rebel get these mother f’n AT-ATs off this Mother F’n beach!
Now that looks great! Nothing else needs saying.
Cool stuff
My man Mads Mikkelsen is in it as well
After the disgusting, stupid, scene-for-scene rehash known as Force Awakens, I’m not going to be fooled by this trailer no matter how good it seems. Episode 7’s trailer was great but the movie was pathetic on all levels critically. A disgrace that ruined Star Wars.
But the director here might have more respect for the franchise and basic narrative logic so we’ll see…
SW:FA might have been ‘bad’, but it was a heck of a lot better than ‘ST:ID’ which is quite a feat after the prequels.
I don’t know, ST:ID was probably just as bad as SW:FA. At least ID had a good performance and villain, albeit one with bizarre motives and plans… (though not as awful as the villains in FA). Prequels at least were original great stories and featured brand new everything and action; told the story of the rise of nazi germany/tyrannical rome for children… poor dialogue and script seem irrelevant when you have a movie which is a scene-for-scene remake of Episode 4 (no, “a turn coat stormtrooper” does not suddenly undo that).
Into Darkness gives an original action sequence demonstrating the realistic power level of an Augments mowing through Klingons. FA doesn’t given a a single original action sequence of any merit. I still haven’t worked out why 30 years later they’re using the exact same X-Wings. Jebus. And FU for making Han shoot someone without even looking. It was lame when Hawkeye did it in Avengers, and it sucked even more when Han did it… also Han’s entire character is undone meaning his character arc was pointless in the original story…
Also Kirk f*cks up constantly unlike Rey who magically does everything right because plot + learns force in minutes (no, follow through your silly “she was a youngling” argument to its logical conclusion, it doesn’t make sense…)
So actually … maybe Into Darkness was a tiny bit better ? *remember’s that Khan’s brilliant plan was to smuggle his teammates in TORPEDOES* … . Abrams ruins everything he touches.
Khan is a tiny bit better than Darth Emo.
However the rest of the plot and the attempt at remaking ‘Wrath of Khan’ by mining a few impressive scenes from the original make even less sense than Anakins’ whiney teen impressions in the prequels (Anakins’ descent into darkness is given much more depth in the clone wars cartoon series btw).
And speaking of Khan … He & his family basically dominated the entire crew when original Kirk met him.
Even with the events in the parallel universe I doubt the Federation was prepared to handle such a person. They still were idealists at that point.
Will many bothans die for this info ?
That was the second death star (when that line was used).
maybe they’ll die again ? 😉
I hope so, they always creeped me out.
Don’t worry @limburger I had the same joke fall completely flat on me too here in the studio 😉 lol
@limburger and @warzan – Just asking, and I may be out of date here, but doesn’t Rouge One tell the story of stealing the plans for the FIRST Death Star? i.e., this is where Princess Leia got the plans she was fleeing with at the very start of Episode IV?
This is what I heard, I could be totally off base here.
Anyway, that would be why “bothans” don’t work. Assuming I’m right, which is nowhere near certain.
thats what I was thinking too @oriskany.
it’s the first one as you can see the Death Star in the trailer and it’s almost complete – the Death Star II (Return of the Jedi) was a skeletal structure barely completed.
I know absolutely nothing about Star Wars, except the stuff I’ve seen in movies.
However look at this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeabed9N9M
That is her in this trailer too, isn’t it ?
I’m sure a real Star Wars fanatic can name her …
That’s Mon Mothma, @limburger . She’s actually the “top commander” or political leader of the Rebellion. Of course she was in the briefing scene of Ep VI Return of the Jedi. She was also in a prequel scene (new actress) in Epi III Revenge of the Sith although I think that scene was cut from the theatrical release (it’s in most DVD releases, I think). Now it seems she’s back in the show again (same actress as in Ep III) in Rogue One.
Putting the WAR in Star Wars!
Those AT-ATs on the beach! SOOOO excited.
Was that a Grand Admiral in White
Did I see Ian McKellon in that? Hard to tell from my phone….
Being one of the few people on this planet who has chosen not to see The Force Awakens, this one has more appeal for me. The trailer has a lot more menace in it and we are going to see the introduction to A New Hope in a way that should taste familiar.
A girl and a deathstar. Seriously? again. New Han Solo is a girl. Come on men we need more men in the lead roles. It’s not Twilight or Hunger games. It’s Star Wars.
Rey in Episode 7 was a Mary Sue character. It was pathetic. Gender is irrelevant, every time a movie does crap like that – male or female – it’s a massive critical problem. If Luke Skywalker was Lucy Skywalker it would have still kicked ass because George Lucas makes Luke EARN his powers and suffers a hero’s journey. Anakin Skywalker despite being a Jesus character likewise earns his powers and fails constantly (he crashed multiple pod-racers prior to Episode 1). Rey magically just does everything right and has skills that she can’t possible have realistically purely because the plot demanded it. If Luke Skywalker did the same thing Episode 4 would have been terrible.
But from the looks of things this female character in the Rogue One trailer will not be a Mary Sue, but rather a character whose demonstrated skills and talent, already proven herself – thus not being a walking plot flaw. The director is a good director but the writers .. well lol, it’s not looking good, but you never know. The director might pull it off and we’ll get a movie free from plot holes, plot flaws, silly pew-pew battles that were basically an advert for Star Wars: Battlefront….
As poosh said : in a good plot gender is irrelevant.
Bad plot is what hightlights issues like actor or gender choice.
And let’s not forget that Star Wars pretty much (re)defined ‘space opera’.
Coincidenses and lots of stupid luck is what have always been part of it.
Seriously … the villain telling the protagonist he is family ?
@poosh : and yet supposed all his failings he managed to win the pod race the moment he survives the first corner. How isn’t that luck ?
Or what about how he pushed random buttons and still managed to destroy the ship because the plot demanded it be destroyed.
@limburger i’m not sure what you mean – we learn Anakin has been in previous podracers in the past and lost but has built up a skill set. In the TPM podrace he wins because of both skill, luck and the fact that one of the other contestants murdered half the racers….. (at any rate, Anakin Skywalker is a messiah archetype, i.e. Jesus (you only get one!) – so it would be technically permissible for him to get things right from day 1.. but that is not the case with Anakin so it doesn’t matter).
A Mary Sue – depending on which definition – is a character who somehow does everything and saves the day through being given skills and talents that he or she is not entitled to, in the story (such as, a character being a consistent perfect shot from the get go without firing a weapon in their life, or a superhero that gets their powers and can use them perfectly without a usual montage showing them learning how to use them).
In the novel of the Phantom Menance the Force dupes Anakin into blowing up the Command Ship – in the movie it’s pure luck that he fires some torpedoes which lock onto the power source. And luck is part of the world. And EXACTLY. Luck. Anakin – and Luke – are very lucky (which feeds into the idea of destiny – both Taken Jedi and Anakin’s Mother (Shimi?) believe it was destiny and the Force pushing Anakin’s life into the hands of the Jedi … Yoda disagrees and was probably justified). Luck is part of a great deal of myths etc.
Luck, random chance are things that happen in the world (including epic historical events that could have meant no western civilisation… because of singular acts of random luck or chance). But at any rate luck is very different to a Mary Sue character who magically knows what to do because of skill he or she has no narrative (etc) right to know about: driving the Falcon like a boss despite never flying that craft (WHICH WAS WORKING AFTER 13 YEARS OF NO MAINTENANCE, FUEL OR UPKEEP!!!!) – or any craft – before, learning how to do a Jedi Master level power in mere minutes after learning of the force (no, even if she was a Padawan which seems like bollocks, she still couldn’t learn a power like that in minutes), being able to hold her own against a wounded sith etc etc. This isn’t luck, that’s giving your character skills they shouldn’t have – like how Orlando Bloom’s character magically knows how to sword-fight / organise a full siege (in the movie Kingdom of Heaven) despite having 2 minutes of training and being a blacksmith his whole life….
In many ways we should replace “Mary Sue” with “Orlando Bloom”. Rey is an Orlando Bloom.
@poosh : his lack of skill is only told by a few kids. We don’t see any real indication that he isn’t capable of flying that thing. Although it is a bit odd that everyone ignores that simply because he’s got so many midi-chlory-whatsits in his blood.
I do agree that Rey learned too much too soon.
She got from zero to hero in one movie whereas Luke needed 3 to get as consistent and as confident as she did …
Add to that the planet sized super weapon and I really wonder what the heck they’re going to do in the next movies.
The issue with the Falcon is weird indeed, because in the original trilogy it appeared to need constant maintenance to fix all sorts of issues.
Then again … Luke/Yoda raised an Xwing out of a bloody swamp. That couldn’t have done that thing any good either and yet there’s no implied ‘extra’ maintenance.
Maybe it’s because I’m more of a Trekkie as opposed to a Star Wars fan, but I could forgive FA for its flaws.
I was more annoyed with the rebooted Trek movies.
He doesn’t have a lack of skill – he is a very skilled pilot, in part because the force allows him to anticipate the future in brief moments (if that wasn’t the case a human cannot cope with such speeds due to their biology), which is why he’s a valuable slave (Anakin is Jesus remember). Watto states he’s podraced before but crashed but is still very good – this means he’s put the man hours in learning ho.. you know this is obvious in the movie lol. So I’ll just stop ha ha. When we meet Anakin he’s already acquired skills through repetition (like us all). Rey, on the other hand, has done nothing but scavenge (i’m fine with her speaking Wookie…. I assume she learnt it in her spare time). All of the ship scenes in FA feel like a computer game unlike the other six movies where there’s a definite weight to the ships, in part because Lucas was influenced by the Battle of Britain and other WW2 fighter-plane movies (that’s why in A New Hope you have designated BOMBERS [Y-Wings] making the trench run first: logical).
Also the “planet sized weapon” is literally just a big death star [makes no logical sense on any level no matter how hard you try to rationalise how it fires and under what rules]. Return of the Jedi was on very thin ice when they brought a second death star – they pulled it off only because it was revealed to be a big trap IT’S A TRAP to lure the Jedi (and they refrained from copying the original and having it shoot a planet, though such a sequence was filmed which repeated A New Hope’s “ticking clock” cliche (wasn’t a cliche when A New Hope was released).. thank goodness they cut it out).
In Empire, Luke is on Swamp Planet for several months I believe so it’s fair enough that he fixed it in that time, don’t we see him fix bits? i swear we do, hes tinkering with stuff and whining, I swear. But that’s very different to a ship that was always falling apart working after 13 years of being left in the desert…
The first Star Trek reboot is literally a Star Wars remake (and a better one than Force Awakens at that) as is painfully obvious – but with Trek characters splashed in. Abrams was always after Episode 7, that might be why you hate them :p Abrams made a Star Wars movie and stuck “Star Trek” to the title. The Star Trek reboot follows A New Hope’s plot, there’s even a Death Star at the end :p but alas Abrams is a poor writer and both movies are filled with plot holes and flaws. I love both Trek reboots but they are dubious movies, the second one especially (though I like that the most) due to the sheer amount of plot flaws and holes, confusing motivations etc etc.
Rebooted Kirk is the worse captain ever he keeps getting half his crew killed.
I can’t help but look at someone who is arguing that the boy who cries “Yipeeee!” when he’s told he can go be a Jedi isn’t an audience surrogate.
But, hey, he might not be a troll. Someone out there might really like the portrayal of Annakin. It is possible, right?
he’s not an audience surrogate (I actually think Obi-Wan functions as that role in Menace) but his dialogue was “crafted” to ensure it was clear he was an innocent kid and not someone with the seed of evil lurking in him.
There’s a casting video with Lucas where he literally turns down 2/3 much superior kid actors and proceeds to smirk at Jake Lloyd, despite a dodgy reading. Which is why Lucas should never have been allowed to cast.
1+ing just to watch the replies *grabs popcorn*
This looks like move I have been waiting for! its going to be better than 7th !!!!!
I take it you are not a fan of Star Wars? @poosh
I love Star Wars.
I’m not a fan of disney remaking and re-hasing a classic movie almost scene-for-scene, adding a few extra original bits on top which introduce stupidity and plot holes which, at least, weren’t present in the original; and then slapping an “Episode 7” title to it and people thinking that’s somehow acceptable. It’s a cynical trend that Hollywood is starting – which started with Jurassic World (another terrible movie… and weirdly – violently sexist). Relying on the uncritical nature of the audience and nostalgia, and it worked. Expect this to happen with other classic movies.
Remember how Han Solo grew infront of us from a selfish ex-imperial navy smuggler (yes Han was a turn coat too…) into a man with morals and then into someone who was signed up to the cause?? That’s a character arc: one where we see a selfish american classic cowboy become a real hero by the time of Jedi.
Remember how Force Awakens basically UNDID that? And makes Han’s own personal journey in those three movies moot and pointless? ’cause in 7 he’s back where he started for no justifiable reason other than Abrams wanted to see him be a “smuggler”.
So yes, I am a fan of the Star Wars movies and the themes of those movies
I love seeing the rise of Nazi Germany/Caesar’s Rome being told to children via space aliens and insane battles. Or a kid’s version of the Faustian pact. Or a re-telling of Jesus gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Solo’s bits in the movie felt more like fan service (ie : here’s Solo again) as opposed to something that made sense.
I think the movie would have been better if they had limited to a few references to the people of the original trilogy instead of showing them (what’s next ? Lando claiming he’s the father ?). Luke is the only one who deserves to be in the movie
They should have taken whatever Lucas’ story was and run with it. Miles better.
I think it was fan service yes 🙁 Han should have been a ruler at this point with Leia running the galaxy – instead she’s just doing the same old crap she did before… so much for “feminism” eh Abrams lol.
Telling great stories takes great risks, sometimes you hit the mark, sometimes you don’t but you can never know where to go unless you do. It’s also quite refreshing to see a Star Wars film without lightsabers swinging everywhere. I enjoy them but lets see how other the other half lives . . . or dies. 🙂
ABSOLUTELY! People tend to forget there were very few Jedi even at the height of their power, yet every movie has to have Jedi in it. It’s nice that the Billions of other people in the universe get their own shot at a story.
Are we seriously having arguments about the gender of lead roles lets just drop that, either its a good character and works in the story or the actress/script suck and if script then male/female however talented wont save it.
As for me initial impressions are dirty dozen (nothing wrong with borrowing from a classic, the original ofc) being done the Star Wars way and A New Hope just became a two part film 🙂
Soooo when are we getting 28mm scal At-AT’s to wargame with. Yes Ebay has WOTC but importing from USA pretty much doubles the price on em 🙁
re-watch the Promethius trailer – same vibe – serious Sci Fi 🙂
Battlestar Galactica gave space pilots issues 🙁
I just want a glimpse of a new X-wing!
But this is before Ep IV, so surely you mean you want a glimpse of an old X-Wing? 😉
newer-older in a galaxy long ago 🙂
….new squad markings or previously unseen bounty hunters!
looks gooood.
I cannot wait!!!! 😀
I hope the film is as dark and serious as the trailer and not a disappointment like Godzilla was.
Now I’m motivated to finishing that 28mm SW project I started last year (I’m doing Jawas, yes Jawas)
@toxicvex Have you found a Sandcrawler in that scale?
I haven’t, a least one that’s affordable. So I got a 1/35 sale American APC from Vietnam (I think) that I planned on making into a smaller “attack crawler”, big enough to transport a small army of jawas, small enough to fit on the table.
I just love that siren sound. Might try and get one installed at work for when urgent jobs come in. 🙂
I know it’s only a trailer but it has a real vibe akin to the original trilogy. The future looks bright for Star Wars and therefore Gamers
I am so hyped after seeing that. That looks amazing and I can’t wait for this to come out.
May the Force be with us that the movie is even half as good as the trailer!!!!!! I am more excited about how this one looks than Force Awakens. I think the excitement for that movie was seeing the original cast back and wiping the taste of the prequels out of my mind. However this movie has me excited solely on the merits of an original scifi story. I’m glad the dramatic joy is back in my favorite childhood fantasy world.
Oh, and can I get HELL YEAH for the At-At’s!
To be perfectly honest, while the trailer is interesting, it’s also heavily disappointing.
Pretty much anyone who grew up with the originals and the old expanded universe already had this story with someone that is still one of the most recognizable characters outside of the movies in Kyle Katarn.
And with all of the effort that Rebels seems to be putting into trying to draw me back, the movie side of things seems to keep cackling about all the barriers they’re dumping into the way of making the stories and characters I’d been invested in for decades into nothing…
It’s funny you should say that but I’m convicted we are going to see Kyle show up (or at least, get a mention) in Rogue One or EP 8. After all, it seems like Jedi Academy pretty happened after RotJ!
What I find really promising about Rogue One is that it reminds me of all those Star Wars RPG campaigns (particularly the West End Games era) where you had to find a way to tell a compelling story with original characters whilst fitting it in around the events of the films. So for me, the fact that we know these characters won’t be the ones who get to destroy the Death Star etc is irrelevant.. in fact it makes it all the more exciting.
Convinced. Gosh darned autocorrect…
This looks far better than episode VII
Classic, stormies, AT AT’s this looks bloody amazing
I enjoyed The Force Awakens. It wasn’t amazing, but I did enjoy it. That makes it the fourth best Star Wars film in my mind.
This though …
I haven’t been this excited about a trailer for a very long time. It feels like ‘real’ Star Wars. I hope it’s successful enough to convince the studio to make more films set in the Rebellion Era.
Very exited about the movie, can’t wait for it’s launch. I think it’s a good thing the Star Wars Universe is getting some more attention. (Y)
another female lead I wonder if this is political
It’s very worrying, but with some luck she’ll be a true character like Starbuck from Galactica.
I was prepared to dislike the new Battlestar Galactica when they announced Starbuck was female…
BB8 is a she (?) apparently
“another female lead”… why is this even an issue? If it is good or bad will have nothing to do with that. Give it a rest already.
Apparently alien protagonists are fine, but heaven forbid half of them should have boobs.
alien protagonists are shit to .the Star Wars franchise is shit.
‘Above and Beyond’ had strong female characters
what I missed from the last Star Wars film was the fear that the characters might fail –
I started reading the Rogue Squadron comics – looking for X-wing ideas 🙂
I knew it was real!
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/04/08/12/44/nasa-asked-to-explain-ufo-that-appeared-in-live-feed