It was just confirmed that first standalone SW film, Rogue One, will be about a band of Rebels stealing the plans of the first Death Star.
Wow, I'd forgotten all about the standalone films. They'll help bridge the gaps between episodes.
.Mac. said:
It was just confirmed that first standalone SW film, Rogue One, will be about a band of Rebels stealing the plans of the first Death Star.
Kyle Katarn stole the Death Star plans!
Rogue One is redundant. Just play the first mission of DARK FORCES.
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Wow. It- blbtbly...they deserve a pizza.
I was just in the big panel with Gareth Edwards....
First bit of news is that the standalone films are officially being titled Anthology films.
They showed a teaser.
It starts in a jungle above a raging river. The camera starts to travel along this canyon and above in the sky you can see a massive planetary mass in the sky. As the camera comes around a bend you see that the mass is in fact the Death Star!
Fade to black as the logo comes up and you can hear frantic chilling radio chatter before the logo glitches out and it all falls dead quiet.
More to come when I get a chance!
It was actually chilling for me to see the teaser and with how they revealed the Death Star, very cool! I wonder was that planet we were on supposed to be Endor, as though they built both of them there?
Somebody recorded it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NELx1y8cr1M
Man, that's DARK...I approve!
I couldn't tell from the video--is the Death Star actually in the sky of that planet? Because if so, it looks way, way too big.
That planet could be a very small moon though.
Where were you in '77?
Haarspalter said:
.Mac. said:
It was just confirmed that first standalone SW film, Rogue One, will be about a band of Rebels stealing the plans of the first Death Star.
Kyle Katarn stole the Death Star plans!
And seeing as I consider Kyle and his role in the EU as part of my personal canon, that means Rogue One is automatically disqualified from admittance into it.
And I was so looking forward to adding another live-action SW film to my canon. I'll guess I'll just have to wait for the second standalone to come along before that opportunity re-presents itself ... *sigh*
Haarspalter said:
Kyle Katarn stole the Death Star plans!
That is just one of maybe three or four (or more) stories in the EU, uh, sorry. "Legends", about how the plans were stolen.
^I think you're reading his words, but not really getting his message.
But who is saying that Kyle Katarn won't be in the film? Maybe he'll be in the film after all...!
Probably not.
No, probably not.
As someone who has nothing but contempt for the way the "Legends" continuity (Lord, I hate referring to it that way; the EU was never one single continuity even at the best of times) unfolded, there are still loads of characters from it that I love, all of whom have loads of potential, and who I'd love to see brought into the "canon" continuity. So far, though, it's been a bust; the only EU-borne characters I've seen in the new continuity are the ones Lucas & co. brought into it prior to the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney. Frankly, the complete disregard of those characters is starting to annoy me.
I'm liking the term 'Anthology' to refer to these separate, standalone movies...and it seems this will encompass stories from various different eras which opens lots of possible directions for them to go in.
Here's an article which gives a bit more info. on this whole 'Rogue One' premise - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/71179
I wonder if they'll continue the movies beyond the three they planned if they're successful? I'd love to see that happen, assuming they're good.
There is so much cool potential for standalone movies I'd imagine that there will be many more in the coming decades after this first batch. Which would be awesome IMO.
And the teaser "shot" looked dope, the fighter flying overhead towards the massive death star.. it's all about perspective BTW, if it's really close to the planet then sure it could look that big.
That's true...most moons wouldn't be orbiting in the same place a space station would.
RicOlie_2 said:
That's true...most moons wouldn't be orbiting in the same place a space station would.
Yea, check out this artist's rendering of how the moon would look if it orbited at the same distance as the ISS:
So yeah it's feasible. Regardless I'm really excited for all of the coming films!
The tidal forces rocking that planet/moon must be immense.
It'd have to be way closer than than though, which would probably require it to have a good portion of itself within the atmosphere. Assuming they haven't stretched the size of it or Alderaan insanely from previous canon, I don't see how it could possibly be large enough to fill up that much of the view on any planet with enough gravity to support an atmosphere, which this one clearly has. Did they confirm that's the Death Star itself though? It looks really different from the Death Star. To me, the dish looks too big. It'd be interesting if it was some kind of crater left by mining entire moon for materials for the Death Star and the Star Destroyer fleet.
valinkrai said:
It'd have to be way closer than than though, which would probably require it to have a good portion of itself within the atmosphere. Assuming they haven't stretched the size of it or Alderaan insanely from previous canon, I don't see how it could possibly be large enough to fill up that much of the view on any planet with enough gravity to support an atmosphere, which this one clearly has. Did they confirm that's the Death Star itself though? It looks really different from the Death Star. To me, the dish looks too big. It'd be interesting if it was some kind of crater left by mining entire moon for materials for the Death Star and the Star Destroyer fleet.
I think you're over thinking things, the teaser shot honestly probably won't be part of the actual film first of all, they haven't even started filming yet.
Secondly, the shot is pretty obviously zoomed in, which would cause the object to seem much bigger. They wanted to show something cool and give a hit as to what time period the film will be set in, and that's it really.
mfastx said:
valinkrai said:
It'd have to be way closer than than though, which would probably require it to have a good portion of itself within the atmosphere. Assuming they haven't stretched the size of it or Alderaan insanely from previous canon, I don't see how it could possibly be large enough to fill up that much of the view on any planet with enough gravity to support an atmosphere, which this one clearly has. Did they confirm that's the Death Star itself though? It looks really different from the Death Star. To me, the dish looks too big. It'd be interesting if it was some kind of crater left by mining entire moon for materials for the Death Star and the Star Destroyer fleet.
I think you're over thinking things, the teaser shot honestly probably won't be part of the actual film first of all, they haven't even started filming yet.
Secondly, the shot is pretty obviously zoomed in, which would cause the object to seem much bigger. They wanted to show something cool and give a hit as to what time period the film will be set in, and that's it really.
Oh, I definitely am. But I just saw someone else posting about it, and figured I'd pipe in, because when I saw it, it was the first thing that I noticed.
Rogue One teaser, screener, all right quality:
http://www.traileraddict.com/star-wars-rogue-one/star-wars-celebration-teaser-trailer