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Rogue One
A Star Wars Story

Rebel spies plot to steal the plans to the Death Star in this all-new Star Wars adventure
If you’re a Star Wars
fan, then it’s a good
time to be alive.
Scratch that, it’s a marvellous
time to be alive. Shortly after
Disney bought Lucasfilm (the
company behind Star Wars
I-VI) in 2012, the House of
Mouse announced that, in
addition to a new trilogy, it
would also be producing a
series of standalone ‘anthology’
films, i.e. tales set in the
Star Wars universe but
unconnected to the central saga.
What this boils down to,
ladies and gents, boys and girls,
is a new Star Wars film every
year for the foreseeable future.
Now that is marvellous!

PHOTO: © 2015 Lucasfilm Ltd.

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DEC

As with last year’s Star
Wars: Episode VII – The Force
Awakens, details about the first
of these anthology films are
sketchy, but what we do know
is this: it’s called Rogue One:
A Star Wars Story and it’s set
between Episode III – Revenge
of the Sith and Episode IV
– A New Hope. It stars The
Theory of Everything’s Felicity
Jones (a Brit, born and bred) as
the gutsy Jyn Erso and follows
the exploits of a group of
Resistance fighters (including
Forest Whitaker’s Saw Gerrera)
as they attempt to steal the
plans to the first Death Star.
But the Empire, led by the
terrifying Director Orson

Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn),
is determined to stop them...
Perhaps most excitingly,
Rogue One is directed by
Gareth Edwards. Edwards
came to prominence in 2010
with Monsters, a beautifully
told sci-fi drama made on a
minuscule budget. He followed
this up in 2014 with the critically
popular Godzilla revamp,
proving that he doesn’t just
tell great stories – he can shoot
a mean action sequence, too.
“Good guys are bad. Bad
guys are good. It’s complicated,
layered: a very rich scenario
in which to set a movie,” says
Edwards of Rogue One.
It’s official – we can’t wait!

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 12
Released 15 December
Director Gareth Edwards
Starring Felicity Jones, Forest Whitaker,
Ben Mendelsohn, Mads Mikkelsen

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