DominicCobb said:
My big question is how closely will this lead up to the original film (basically how prequelly will this be)?
What they told us at Star Wars Celebration was that this is the first two paragraphs from the opening crawl:
It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.
Gareth Edwards said he wanted to put the WARS back in Star Wars. So the crew he's hired are all veterans of award winning gritty war films.
Here's the full panel with Gareth and Kathleen Kennedy and here's the teaser they showed us.
You have no idea how psyched I am for this film.