‘Rogue One’ Shows Disney Still Doesn’t Really Get ‘Star Wars’ (Commentary)
“Rogue One” is the best “Star Wars” film made in my lifetime. “Rogue One” is gorgeous and thrilling. More
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Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia Was One of the Few Truly Iconic Characters–Yet Her Greatest Role Was Herself
There are so few true icons.
“Iconic” is a word that gets thrown around haphazardly, having become interchangeable with any word that connotes fame and losing its primary definition as something inspiring unflagging, uncritical devotion. More
Rogue One animators on that character: ‘Realism had to trump likeness’
SPOILERS FOR ROGUE ONE FOLLOW
Rogue One, the recently released Star Wars prequel, has tons of ties to the original films in the form of returning characters. More
How Does ‘Rogue One’ Connect to ‘Episode VIII’?
An infographic showing the ways in which this month’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story connects with other properties in the franchise has provoked speculation that there’s more than meets the eye about the prequel to 1977’s original Star Wars movie. Could there really be a hidden connection between Rogue One and next year’s Star Wars: Episode VIII?
What caused the speculation was a timeline map of the Star Wars properties from Entertainment Weekly, which connects Gareth Edwards’ upcoming movie not only with Star Wars: A New Hope and the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars — where the character of Saw Gerrera, played by Forest Whitaker in the movie, debuted — but also with 2017’s Episode VIII, without any explanation.
It’s possible that the red line connecting the two projects is a mistake, or merely an indicator of where Rogue One falls in the production timeline… or, alternately, there’s a chance that there really is some mythology connecting the two movies.
Cynically, this is a smart move — laying groundwork for the much-anticipated next installment of the “main saga” movies in the first of the standalone spin-offs signals to the audience that the Star Wars Story movies “matter” to the bigger picture, driving attendance. Building…
Star Wars: Felicity Jones explains why Rogue One is more like The Empire Strikes Back
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.
Those were the first words to ever appear in a Star Wars movie, in the opening crawl of 1977’s A New Hope. Now, almost 40 years later, we are going to see those words finally come to life with the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which will tell that story when it debuts on Dec. 16.
But while Rogue One directly leads right up to the events of Episode IV: A New Hope, it may feel closer in tone to a different Star Wars film. We found this out when we sat down with stars Felicity Jones (Jyn Erso) and Diego Luno (Captain Cassian Andor) for a SiriusXM Town Hall that will air on Entertainment Weekly Radio (Channel 105) later this month.
“The one that we always would come back to would be The Empire Strikes Back,” Jones says. “And I remember with [director Gareth Edwards], we’d keep coming back to it as kind of an inspiration and a reference…