Also, why is the Death Star up-side-down in this shot?
There is no upside down in space. It’s all three-dimensional, remember? 😛
Yeah, in the real world there is no upside down in space.
But if you look at Star Wars or especially Star Trek, you will notice that the ships always are like horizontally aligned. It is a normal thing in movies to make “it look good”.
I will say if every spaceship is flying as they like, it would be an optically mess! It is a film thing not a realism thing. In reality there are no spaceships 😉
The upside down deathstar looks to me like a mistake
Nah it’s definitely on purpose. They’re not gotta tease a trailer for weeks and then mess something up.
But there’s also no way it’s targeting the planet for destruction at that close range. It could honestly be that the superlaser isn’t so super yet and they’re using it more as a big piece of artillery than what it’s meant for.
I feel like a lot of the film is going to take place on Jedha. I aslo think it’s interesting that the DS apparently goes to Jedha (hence the eclipse). There’s a shot in the trailer of Jyn and Cassian flying away from huge explosion so there might be a scene where the DS actually attacks Jedha. Of course it’s not referred to as “fully operational” until the events of ANH, so I guess this scene might show us what the unfinished DS superlaser is capable of. This also implies that the shot of the DS that was posted earlier, which I said looked up-side-down, is probably it aiming down on Jedha. The shots of Krennic with the view of Jedha I’m assuming is him ordering it to attack.
Yes, it’s definitely not up-side-down, but pointing down, ready to attack Jedha, despite not being “fully operational” yet.