The story should offer some opportunities for exciting action scenes. Does Felicity Jones have any martial arts experience?

So wait. This is about what immediately led to ANH? I thought about trying stop the Death Star being built. I misunderstood that if that's the case.

Yep, just a little bit before ANH. Hopefully they'll use Vader as the main antagonist hunting them down!

Not unexpected, but still nice to hear. There's a lot of interesting stories that could be told between ROTS and ANH.

I'm expecting the action scenes in this movie to show them really getting good, then instantly cutting away to some sort of advanced space monitor.

While not a film, but similar based upon a failed concept, the video game Halo: Reach (a prequel to the franchise) has a great story considering every Halo fan knows that:

Yeah. That was a good game. Fuck. I miss those days w/ my friends on Live.

I actually really like the idea for this film knowing what it is now. There should be some good stories to tell between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.

Nerd reference, but I would go bonkers if they somehow made Kyle Katarn a part of this movie.

Oh, for fucks sake...

I'm sure the movie will be super fun and entertaining and I'll surely see it, but a prequel? My irritation has nothing to do with the SW prequels, rather prequels in general. We know how it's going to end...



Seems like low hanging fruit to me.

Wrong.



Why does knowing how the movie ends matter? We knew how Titanic was going to end. We knew how Apollo 13 was going to end. So what? The journey from beginning to ending is more important than the actual ending itself.

I just don't get that train of thought. Some people hate rewatching a movie or rereading a book because they know how it ends after experiencing it once. That doesn't matter to me one bit. I rewatch or reread a good movie or book all the time. The journey is more important and more entertaining than the ending. I have seen the Star Wars OT dozens of times. I know how it ends. Who freaking cares. The journey is just so entertaining, so I rewatch it. That is what is important.

Wrong Death Star.

Anthony Breznican, the guy who hosted the JJ and cast panel that opened Celebration the other day, actually mentioned the Bothans as being part of Rogue One in his EW article covering the RO panel. A few people (like myself) added comments to correct him and the stuff about the Bothans is now gone from his article (along with my comment). How'd they let this guy host the opening panel?

That's nothing: The guy interviewing audience members during the costume contest couldn't even recognize who a woman dressed as Leia was supposed to be.

Oh shit! You're totally right!

My reasoning still stands.

Since the old EU is out the window, I suppose it could have been the Bothans that stole both plans.

I read some speculation that in the movie Ahsoka Tano could be the person with the plans, and that the end of Rogue One will show Vader killing her, which would lead directly into the opening of the original Star Wars movie.

Your reasoning (you hate prequels because you already know the ending) is just bizarre.

You know what happened to get the original Death Star plans? I don't.

And even if I did, it's a rare movie that doesn't end with "they were successful". But I certainly have no idea how it happens in this case.

That argument against any prequel is tired and lazy. Using that reasoning, Hollywood may as well never make a film about World War 2 or the Civil War or the Vietnam "Police Action" again, because we know how those end

In those cases, we've some damn fine films that altered history. Inglorious Basterds was a damn fine alternate history. Granted... that's different cuz continuity should matter here.

I'm opposed to it as well, not because I know the ending, but because it's just boring. Who gives a shit how the Death Star plans were sent to Princess Leia? I was hoping the spin-offs would take advantage of the endless possibilities that the Star Wars universe offers. Instead, we're getting incremental events in between the other movies. Is this going to enhance our enjoyment of the chapter movies? I highly doubt it. So what's the point? Show me something new, show me something I haven't seen!

I was already wary of the idea of all these spin-offs, and this doesn't make me feel better about it.

I'm generally against all prequels for all franchises, but I'd be down if it has a hard core WWII/spy vibe to it.

I'm not sure what you're looking for here - do you mean a story about something happening to some random dude on the other side of the galaxy with no connection to the events shown in the movies? You realize that won't sell tickets, right? There are plenty of opportunities for that the novels and comics (personal confession: I'd love to see stories set in the SW universe but with a Star Trek feel to them, like the earliest explorers going out into the galaxy on charting and first contact missions, but with SW tech. And no Jedi, just maybe one crew member with odd sense of luck every now and then. But I know it wouldn't sell tickets.)

Yes, I would love to see some totally unrelated story with characters that aren't directly connected to the main series. Perhaps they could be affected by events in the main series, but that sounds far more interesting than a story that is ultimately irrelevant (how the Death Star plans were taken just doesn't seem that interesting, and is far less important than what happens once the plans are stolen).