We made people! Day five of my week long Star Wars post. If you want to see the previous posts, you can access them by clicking the links below.
Star Wars The Force Awaken – My Thoughts
Star Wars The Force Awakens – Who Is Rey?
Star Wars The Force Awakens – Who Is Snoke?
Star Wars The Force Awakens – Who Is Kylo Ren?
Today’s topic will take us away from Star Wars The Force Awakens and into the future. I am talking about the first film in the new Anthology series titled Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
What do we know about this film? We know that the film tells the story of resistance fighters who team up to steal the plans to the first Death Star. The movie will be released on December 16, 2016. Kathleen Kennedy gives her take on what the film is…
“Rogue One takes place before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and will be a departure from the saga films but have elements that are familiar to the Star Wars universe. It goes into new territory, exploring the galactic struggle from a ground-war perspective while maintaining that essential Star Wars feel that fans have come to know. Gareth is such an innovative director and I’m so excited to be working with him and the extraordinary ensemble cast he’s selected for ‘Rogue One.’”
So who is this Extraordinary ensemble cast you ask? Below is the cast as listed on starwars.com.
Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008’s Oscar-winning Milk and 2013’s Elysium;
Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II;
Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced , directed and starred in the award-winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep;
Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically-acclaimed Lee Daniels’ The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006’s The Last King of Scotland;
Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006’s Casino Royale;
Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance-capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon-to-be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November;
Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA-winning film Four Lions.
This will be one of the first Star Wars films that take place outside of the Saga (No, I am not counting the Ewok films). Since this has nothing to do with the Skywalker family directly, here are five things that I want to see in this film.
There you have it. The five things I want to see in this new movie. Let me know what you think about this list. Is there anything you want to see? Let me know by commenting below.
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