Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Official Teaser Trailer

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So how are they going to square this story away with the fact that the Geonosians were already working on the Death Star at the end of RotS? Did it just take 20 years to finish? Did the project get turned over to imperial human scientists at some point?

Actually, WILL they even address this?

Scene at end of Rots with the death star was a flash forward.
 
Holy crap. Brought tears to my eyes. I was looking forward to this but didn't think it would look this badass. The classic theme music entertwined with the imperial march was sweet. This might make as much money as TFA because it looks better to me. Is t December yet??

That $4 billion is looking like chump change to Disney now. Taking Star Wars away from Lucas was the best thing that could have ever happened.
 
Okay the "I rebel" complaints I think you're missing the point. The phrase doesn't seem meant to convey some sense of badass it's just her being difficult towards authority. Think more smartass and less badass.

First thing I thought of when I heard the line was "this is a rebel without a cause." She acts like the badass, has the moves to backup her attitude but when it comes down to it she's got no plan, no end goal. She's fighting and resisting but to no end. Mon Mothma and the the Rebel Alliance will provide her with an actual goal that will make a real change in the galaxy. Focusing her anti-authority, anti-empire emotions towards a meaningful purpose.
 
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I guess the bigger problem is why it took so long for the first one and so little for the second, or for starkiller base for that matter?

Maybe this movie will answer that question. Perhaps some kind of scientific\engineering breakthrough was needed to make it possible, following which it just became a matter of how fast one could acquire the necessary resources. Kind of like the atomic bomb or the hydrogen bomb, the apollo rocket, the first airplanes, etc.

I'm fully expecting Starkiller Base to be retconned at some point into either a secret unfinished Imperial project that the First Order finished (since Aftermath says Palpatine had been secretly sending legions of scientists and colonists into the Unknown Regions) or some kind of wacky Rakatan/pre-Republic supervillain species weapon or something like that.
 
I guess the bigger problem is why it took so long for the first one and so little for the second, or for starkiller base for that matter?

Maybe this movie will answer that question. Perhaps some kind of scientific\engineering breakthrough was needed to make it possible, following which it just became a matter of how fast one could acquire the necessary resources. Kind of like the atomic bomb or the hydrogen bomb, the apollo rocket, the first airplanes, etc.

the first version probably had lots of bugs
 
Hmm... so you guys are saying that THIS from the end of Ep III:

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Is just the Repub-Pire building it themselves already, and the bugs are already out of the picture at that point? I guess that's plausible, I dunno.

And then it took 20 more years? I guess that's fine, too... kind of kludgey. Maybe they'll have a little dialogue to explain that they had to have some big breakthrough somewhere along the line. I dunno.

It did, remember the shot in ANH was its very first test firing
 
Scene at end of Rots with the death star was a flash forward.

The Tarkin book confirms it wasn't. It was already under construction and, IIRC, Tarkin wasn't aware if it had been a Separatist effort that was taken over by the Republic after the end of the war or if the Republic had somehow been building this thing in secret the whole time.
 
People have turned on Lost Stars now too? Having a hard time keeping up.

I think once a lot of people actually read it they realized that it's filled with a lot of sappy/poorly written YA bullshit.

And I'm getting similar vibes here so hopefully the 1 or 2 bad lines from this trailer are outliers.
 
This trailer has me all sorts of hyped! Can't wait. Dialogue didn't bother me, and this did not feel like a Hunger Games anything (Not sure how people get that to be honest). More Star Wars is never a bad thing.
 
this looks better than VII.

So how are they going to square this story away with the fact that the Geonosians were already working on the Death Star at the end of RotS? Did it just take 20 years to finish? Did the project get turned over to imperial human scientists at some point?

Actually, WILL they even address this?
They already started to adress this in Rebels. In a recent Season 2 episode, the crew orbited Geonosians and found no signs of life...anywhere. it's implied the Empire used the Geonosians to their advantaged and wiped them out, all of them, afterwards.
 
First thing I thought of when I heard the line was "this is a rebel without a cause." She acts like the badass, has the moves to backup her attitude but when it comes down to it she's got no plan, no end goal. She's fighting and resisting but to no end. Mon Mothma and the the Rebel Alliance will provide her with an actual goal that will make a real change in the galaxy. Focusing her anti-authority, anti-empire emotions towards a meaningful purpose.

Bingo. She's basically going to be a female less endearing (gruff humor-wise) Han I think. Needs a push to find her purpose but once she gets it look out
 
Max Landis just pointed something out that's funny. We've seen some form of the Death Star in 6 out of the 8 SW movies. Episode 1 and Empire are the only ones without it.
 
Come the fuck on, do not try to push a racist agenda. You couldnt be barking more up the wrong tree. And no, Christopher Lee had the same effect for me too.
Why do you hate blacks?
haha dude relax, I was fucking with you
 
this is the first Star Wars trailer that hasn't stirred the pot for me. I'd normally be freaking out and losing my shit.

Same here. It just feels like a very dry and paint-by-numbers action trailer. If it wasn't connected to the Star Wars universe, I doubt it'd get a second look.

Contrast that with the TFA trailers. They obviously benefitted hugely by being tied to Star Wars, but they also featured some great action mixed with emotional moments and a beautiful score throughout. Even after having seen TFA several times, I still get goosebumps when I see those trailers.
 
Disney doin work

Their movie empire is nuts right now. "Movies" is an antiquated term anyway, short for moving pictures. We should call them "disneys."

Did you check out that new disney? It's probably in my top 10 disneys of the decade, if not all time.
 
People have turned on Lost Stars now too? Having a hard time keeping up.
I feel like there's going to be people shitting on any Star Wars thing you may like in every thread for the foreseeable future. It sucks that every thread seems to be devolving into "this sucks, they're milking it, looks bad", but as long as you're enjoying it that's all that matters.
 
Meh the dialogue here is much more amateurish than what we normally get. I'm getting Lost Stars vibes here, and trust me, that is NOT a good thing.

Pretty clear difference in the quality of the writing, and this is what they chose as some of their best?

It's actually a good thing considering how good lost stars is. It's the best new eu book.
 
I guess the bigger problem is why it took so long for the first one and so little for the second, or for starkiller base for that matter?

Maybe this movie will answer that question. Perhaps some kind of scientific\engineering breakthrough was needed to make it possible, following which it just became a matter of how fast one could acquire the necessary resources. Kind of like the atomic bomb or the hydrogen bomb, the apollo rocket, the first airplanes, etc.

The first one was complete.
The second one was never complete, they just focused on the weapon system first so that it was "fully armed and operational" but it was never complete.
There were rumors in some of the fiction that they started building the second right after the first but anyway isn't it always faster to build something once you have done it once?
Plus the first was built in secret, the second not so much and they would have had Kyber Crystals and many of the harder things from the building of the first.
Starkiller is not really even the same so much as it is just a technological breakthrough on the weapons that they built into an existing planet.
 
No. It's seemingly all people want to do nowadays with entertainment media. As soon as something new comes out it literally takes like 20 minutes.

Well it's the quickest and easiest way to troll. They get the reaction they wanted almost instantly.
 
I'm super excited for Ben Mendelsohn He became one of my favorite actors after Bloodline and The Place Beyond the Pines, dude is awesome AND he looks fucking awesome in Rogue One. The shot with him walking through the shallow water with his cloak floating up is gorgeous.
 
Coming off Aftermath it felt like Shakespeare.

It's actually a good thing considering how good lost stars is. It's the best new eu book.

If you're into dull, poorly written and cliche characters who feel like shells of who they're supposed to be, sure, it's a fantastic book.

But not to detract from the thread, I just hope it doesn't get as bad as the cringe-inducing dialogue from that novel. The "I rebel" line just really struck that chord with me.
 
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