What is Rogue One? – Dagobah Day #1

Welcome to Dagobah!

Dagobah Day is a new recurring opinion piece / news post on all things Star Wars. This time on Dagobah, I’m taking a look at the Rogue One details we got yesterday – should we be confident?

Sweet Jabba – Thank God for Disney! Since acquiring Lucasfilm, Disney has wasted no time making money, while making fans happy and satiated. At the Star Wars Celebration Anaheim Spin-Off panel on Sunday, Kathleen Kennedy and Co. revealed details for Gareth Edwards’ spin-off film Star Wars: Rogue One. First, however, we got one little side note to report: The spin-off films are called Anthology Films! I like it.

That’s the basic log line of Rogue One. A Star Wars heist film, absolutely perfect. These details had been rumored months ago, I believe – but having confirmation is absolutely awesome. Gareth Edwards brought some teaser footage, which is to say it’s just a teaser and not shots from the movie, and some people supposedly have video of it online, if you’re interested.

https://twitter.com/devincf/status/589856780382900225

This will also, supposedly, be the first Star Wars feature film featuring no Jedi – seeing as it takes place between Episode III and IV (i.e. after Order 66). I love the log line, and I like the fact that there won’t be any Jedi in the movie. Hopefully, we’ll see some new characters in stead of a new actor as Han Solo or something like that. We do know that Felicity Jones will be playing a Rebel soldier, which should be great. Loved her in Theory of Everything.

But what about the director? Can we trust him? I vote yes. Though his Godzilla did disappoint me, I was pleasantly surprised by his Monsters. But the most important thing to me here is that this guy is a huge Star Wars-fan.

Still no news on the Josh Trank Anthology Film, and people are already speculating that he and Lucasfilm have had a falling out. I doubt it, though – he probably just has the flu or something.

By the way – the next Star Wars Celebration is in London. What do you say fellow Europeans?

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