Rogue One * Spoilers * Thread — Page 36

This Virtual Reality X-Wing Demo seems to be Rogue One Tie in by EA (Ha Pun!) I am actually surprised nobody posted this although it’s game content it is for Rogue One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JS642fmhk0

I am not sure if it really gives us anything concrete but it does perhaps feel very movie focused at the start of the Clip with the Tantive going over Camera and the X-wings peeling off.

Confirmation of Space Battle? I would say yes… Battle of Toprawa re-jigged or possibly similar incarnation?

There has been a few different versions of the Death Star Plans being Stolen, but it seems they are going with a battle in Space as well as on the ground. I Guess it would increase the Tension of the finale. We obviously won’t see all of it either if we see it even partially. Basically it’s another Cliff Hanger.

Or a Skyhook 😃

Some more information. The mission you play on you are answering a Distress Call from the Tantive IV which is stuck fighting the Star Destroyer (Devastator) in an asteroid field. That is probably all the information that can be given on it.

If I was making this film I think I would end it with The Luke and Bigga scene. At least then it would completely flow one film in to the next with a small overlap and from a different perspective.

Maz mentions the Sith.

It’s amusing they felt cropping off the top was the spoiler and not the Helmet in the water.

Or Perhaps the picture was cropped intentionally to get the message across.

Who do you think Forest Whittaker’s character is talking to when he says…

“What will you do if they break you?”

“General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father’s request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack, and I’m afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.”

So At what point was Leia meant to bring Obi-wan to Alderan? Is there a reason that Obi-wan could not have been picked up because stealing the death star plans went wrong? Was the Tantive IV meant to intercept the plans or was it a last ditch effort to get the death star plans and it interfered with Obi-wan being picked up?

Please let it be Jar Jar.

Ronster said:

So At what point was Leia meant to bring Obi-wan to Alderan? Is there a reason that Obi-wan could not have been picked up because stealing the death star plans went wrong? Was the Tantive IV meant to intercept the plans or was it a last ditch effort to get the death star plans and it interfered with Obi-wan being picked up?

In the Radio play, the plan was that while on a “mercy mission” the Tantive IV would stop around the planet the plans were stolen from (I forget if it was named) before jumping off to Tatooine to pick up Obi-Wan. It might have worked too if they had plans to deal with being scanned by Imperials before they tried to execute it.

I don’t know if that will be the case this time, but we’ll see.

Well I think it’s safe to say “Toprawa” is now “Scarif” for all intents and purposes.

When you take in to account Leia’s message without taking in to account any other EU stories and what she says at face value, It is inferred that her mission was to pick up Obi-Wan and take him to Alderan and this failed due to coming under attack.

So I am very interested in how this will be handled. I hope they don’t mess it up.

It seems a bit of a stretch to be involved in picking up the death star plans and then picking up Obi-Wan all in one fell swoop. You would get 2 separate ships for that. But I suppose it is confirmed that the U-wing does indeed get destroyed.

I would certainly prefer a scenario where the Tantive IV get’s drafted in unexpectedly given the Message Leia gives and clearly states her mission was sort of “Compromised”

Ronster said:

But I suppose it is confirmed that the U-wing does indeed get destroyed.

Uwe, we hardly knew ye.

Jyn Erso’s Leap from the sizzle reel seems to happen on Jedha. If Viscerals Games Adaptation is anything to go by.

Yeah I actually think that is Mos-Eisley now. Although it is seemingly borrowing from Rogue one and putting a under siege setting on Mos-Eisley…

Anyway yeah my bad it’s a mistake on my part. Interestingly though Doug Chiang is high up the chain on Lucusfilm and I never knew that before I highly respect the work he has done in the past and if he is being consulted on concepts then that can be nothing bad what so ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUafi3EWBY8

I also can’t help thinking about the Madame Tussauds deal to bring old characters likeness in to reality today. I honestly believe that Madame Tussauds have perhaps been utilized to help with the Anthology Films.

Hardcore Legend said:

Something that I guess I never really put much thought into before but Leia’s reaction to her home being vaporized and her father being murdered is really muted, in retrospect. Her recording makes it very clear her father is intended to be on Aldreraan but I wonder if they will retcon it to leave it ambiguous as to whether he might have been ‘en route’ to the planet or if they will make it clear he has safely returned (only to be blown into a billion tiny bits).

Bloodline opens with a memorial to Bail Organa, who was killed with the planet Alderaan.

Even if they leave it ambiguous, the lore already has established he’s been killed in the attack.

Other Lines of dialogue in A New Hope that could potentially Hint at things that will happen in Rogue one.

C3-P0 - “There will be no escape for the princess this time” - She escapes in Rogue One from a Situation possibly

Vader then when Leia is Captured Says - “You were’nt on any MERCY MISSION this time” suggesting he met her first when she claimed to be on a mercy mission.

Vader - “SEVERAL TRANSMISSIONS were beamed aboard this ship” There is more than one transmission made to the Tantive IV

Vader - “SEND A DISTRESS SIGNAL and then inform the senate that all aboard were killed” Vader orders sending the distress signal and not Leia.

Vader - “There will be no one to stop us this time” suggesting that something or someone stopped him previously from finding the hidden rebel base.

I am also wondering how the Distress Signal and killing all aboard the Tantive IV had anything to do with the Senate being dissolved as Tarkin references later on. Perhaps there was a loss of control.

If this whole “Mercy Mission” Sub plot does some how play out and the Tantive get’s let through a Blockade on Goodwill will we see the Millenium Falcon being stopped and boarded (No Character Appearances). The point at which Han drops his Cargo Instigating the Bounty on his Head. Probably a stretch but I am merely trying to connect dots.

I read about the Lord Tion story and I like that a High Ranking Imperial want’s to Marry Leia. Although he dies suspiciously. I doubt this will make the film but I am rooting for an Alderan appearance, it would really add more weight to the destruction when it happens.

I like the idea of being able to watch the 2 films back to back.

Yeah but Han dropping his Cargo was the last straw. It’s at that point he was a “Dead Man”

Greedo - “I’m Lucky I found you first”

Yeah but if it were a reference as small as the one you are pointing out from I think it’s ROTS?

Then it’s literally a reference on a similar scale to that, but yeah I agree stretching the possibilities.

I was just connecting an Imperial Blockade and that Han got Boarded and dropped his Cargo.

Easter Egg

Egg.