Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones).Ph: Film Frame ILM/Lucasfilm.©2016 Lucasfilm Ltd. We are on a diplomatic mission.” Vader responds angrily, “If this is a consular ship where is the ambassador?!” Then he snaps Antilles neck, throws him aside, and shouts out, “Commander tear this ship apart until you found those plans and bring me the Ambassador, I want her alive!” That small exchange is the basis for Rogue One. Darth Vader opens the 1977 movie by strangling Captain Antilles on board a Rebel Blockade Runner and says to him, “Where are the transmissions you intercepted? What have you done with those plans?” Antilles croaks out, “We intercepted no transmissions. The story revolves around the opening crawl and just a few lines in the original Star Wars: A New Hope. It’s just so well done, so filled with action, wit, humor, and thrills. But even if you’ve never seen any Star Wars movie (I know some of you exist out there), you’ll still enjoy this film. Rogue One movie posterįor long time Star Wars fans there are LOTS of tributes to the other movies! See how many you can spot for yourself and compare it with my blog post later this week (don’t want to spoil it for anyone – you have to enjoy the whole experience yourself). Both very Star Wars and still something different. The movie opened with the traditional “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” but instead of the familiar “crawl” of words to introduce the film, it had an action packed opening sequence followed simply by the title “Rogue One.” That kind of summed up the film. It was both very much Star Wars and its own movie at the same time. That’s all I can really say about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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