Well I gotta say that the new ROGUE ONE trailer sure has some EPIC-looking shots in it - I wasn’t expecting this movie to look so good!
I love that the ‘marketplace’ outpost is located upon a huge rock plateau (as I hadn’t expected that from previous footage), and the pan up to the Stardestroyer overhead is a terrific piece of imagery. And the brief moment of the stardestroyer looming directly towards us out of the shadows of the Death Star dish was excellent too…as was the Death Star over the planet and the distant ‘eclipse’ it caused. And the shot of the TIE fighter rising up in front of ‘Jyn’ was really neat too - I wasn’t too impressed with the new ‘TIE Striker’ design, so it was great to see the good 'ol standard TIE’s being featured so prominently in this.
I wasn’t initially too keen on the slight changes to the ‘walkers’ compared to the original AT-ATs either, and would have preferred that they had either been exactly the same design, or a more radically different type of ‘walker’ design altogether. But that’s being overly picky I guess, and it seems that they are meant to be a larger cargo carrying type to the ones we originally saw - I could have done without the ‘beige’-coloured side panels, but no biggie. Still, the footage involving them looks pretty effective overall.
Visually, this movie is already shaping up to look a real treat…and this trailer made me go back and re-check the previously released ‘Behind-The-Scenes Celebration Reel’ clip with a fresh eye again - it’s first shot showing the lone stormtrooper being filmed looking out into the distance through macrobinoculars should make for a very nice moment, I reckon…and there was plenty of other stuff that I’m confident will look great onscreen after seeing the quality of the shots in this trailer.
I’m just hoping that Mads Mikkelsen isn’t wasted in a minimal role like the great Max von Sydow was in TFA…and while the trailer music has been perfectly pitched so far, it’s not as if John Williams is scoring this particular instalment. I sure hope Alexandre Deplat’s soundtrack can do the visuals justice, and make me not miss Williams too much. It’s bound to be an element which will distinguish these ‘standalone’ entries from the main saga chapters somewhat.
Anyway, it seems that there’s still a single ‘leaked’ version of the unseen ‘Celebration event’ trailer floating about on YouTube…but it’s been somewhat overdubbed with the ‘Ride Of The Valkyries’ music as heard during APOCALYPSE NOW (very apt actually). However, I did a little extra digging around and found this link to the same version which has the actual sound from the trailer. It’s low quality ‘shakey cam’, but it features a few additional shots to the latest one we’ve been given, so check it out, and enlarge it for maximum impact - https://streamable.com/rzww
(to be honest, I wish the new trailer had used the same final shot used in this ‘leaked’ trailer instead, as it’s really neat - and I’m now wondering if this is actually the shot which is going to ‘introduce’ Vader into the movie itself?) - and here’s an inverted comparison to get a better look at this particular reflection on the Death Star’s shiny floor - i.imgur.com/qgB7Ds6.jpg
