Star Wars: Rogue One - coming 2017

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The BBC reports that the first standalone Star Wars film will carry the title of Star Wars: Rogue One, and be directed by Gareth Edwards and star Felicity Jones:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31861511

Nothing more revealed as yet, other than a release date scheduled for May 2017.
 
Here's the official Star Wars announcement - which, admittedly, provides little further detail:
http://www.starwars.com/news/rogue-...direct-star-wars-episode-viii?linkId=12857855

Perhaps more interest is this piece at Entertainment Weekly, which explores the history of Rogue Squadron in the Star Wars universe:
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/1...ue-one-explained-brief-history-rogue-squadron


Nobody in Rogue Squadron is an epic hero. It’s a squadron of great pilots, but they’re all ultimately grunts, disposable everyday soldiers fighting other disposable soldiers while Princesses and Emperors decide the fate of the universe.

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In comic and novel form, Rogue Squadron had some key tenets. There was always a big cast of pilots, and anyone who hadn’t appeared in the movies was very expendable. And whereas the Star Wars movies have always trended towards white dudes in the main cast, Rogue Squadron put a bit more emphasis on aliens and female pilots. But Stackpole’s main contribution, I think, was to portray Rogue Squadron as the everymen-and-women of the Star Wars galaxy. They didn’t fight zero-sum battles against Death Stars; they fought renegade Imperials and war lords, they fought on land and over sea, in space and beyond.
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EDIT: And here's a thought - perhaps Rogue One connects directly with The Force Awakens through the bunch of pilots we saw in the trailer? In which case, the characters may not be unfamiliar by then at all.

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As with the other Star Wars movies, i am very much looking forward to this.

I love the fact that "there will be a noticable absence of the Jedi" in this movie.
 
Before Episode IV? Was there even a rebellion then? Or more to the point, was there even an Empire to rebel against?
 
Tower75 said:
Before Episode IV? Was there even a rebellion then? Or more to the point, was there even an Empire to rebel against?
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The BBC article mentioned about how at least part of the plot will involve trying to steal plans for the original Death Star - which will later be used by the Rebel Alliance.
 
Brian Turner said:
The BBC article mentioned about how at least part of the plot will involve trying to steal plans for the original Death Star - which will later be used by the Rebel Alliance.
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Ah, that 'hole trick. Hmm, I think it would've been nice to go in a different direction. Other than the Jedi, the Death Star was one of the things I didn't really like in the Star Wars world, it just didn't make any sense to me, also it's a stupid idea if you ask me, but that's another topic i'm sure.

But we'll see, I'm sure it'll be good... but we did say that about Episode I, and II..., and III. That's right. Come get me, World. :p
 
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