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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
@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… Read more »
@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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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.