# "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432 "2016-04-07T13:05:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/41 "2016-04-07T22:35:09Z")
Looks better than the actual new Star Wars film. Will definitely give it a shot, I love me some Forest Whitaker. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/42 "2016-04-07T22:51:25Z")
io9 has a frame-by-frame parsing of the trailer [here](http://io9.gizmodo.com/every-cool-detail-we-spotted-in-the-rogue-one-a-star-w-1769606654). It doesn’t have what _I_ would consider spoilers, but it does have analysis/guesses of what some scenes might mean, and points out details in the trailer you probably didn’t notice. It also has some guesses or rumors about who some of the characters are. Click or don’t click accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/43 "2016-04-07T23:09:55Z")
Will any more of the upcoming movies include the “A Star Wars Story” subtitle? It kind of reminds me of “A Spike Lee Joint”. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/44 "2016-04-07T23:31:13Z")
More Star Wars movies, please. One a month would be fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/45 "2016-04-08T00:08:18Z")
It’s definitely looking good so far, but I’m still waiting for reviews before I see it. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/46 "2016-04-08T00:13:56Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Perhaps no Jedi in this film, but I would love to catch a glimpse of Vader and a bit of dialog when the Rebels are on the Death Star. > > Looks better than I thought it might. I think I got a tingle, even. I wonder if there will be some surprise like this. Perhaps a digitally created young Princess Leia, receiving the plans at the end of the film. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/47 "2016-04-08T00:36:05Z")
Holy shit, did they max out everything that made Forrest Whittaker cool or what? They got it up to 11… 12! before the knob snapped off. I’ve got to kidnap a GM for Star Wars: Edge of Empire and force them to let me play a female scoundrel right now. Anybody here a Star Wars GM? Asking for a friend. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/48 "2016-04-08T02:07:58Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > I wonder if there will be some surprise like this. Perhaps a digitally created young Princess Leia, receiving the plans at the end of the film. I reckon Mae Whitman would be a good young Leia. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/49 "2016-04-08T03:02:12Z")
Impressive. > [@XT](#): > > Totally looking forward to this. I wonder if this spin off line will continue with events that took place away from the main events happening in episodes 4-6? A reworking of some of the _Shadows of the Empire_ material might be fun. They’d have to disassociate it further from the main cast, I think, but it could be made to work. I’d like to see more of the smaller-scale, background stuff. (As long as they don’t spend a whole movie on a train. :p) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/50 "2016-04-08T07:45:51Z")
It would amuse me - greatly - if the character we see in the white uniform played by Ben Mendelsohn is named Thrawn - no blue skin, no red eyes, no “defeat them by studying their art”, just a normal human named Grand Admiral Thrawn who does normal evil Imperial General things. Just for the EU fanboy reaction. I am easily amused. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/51 "2016-04-08T11:59:33Z")
If the quality of the trailer is any indication of the quality of the rest of the film then I am looking forward to this more than any Star Wars film since ESB. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/52 "2016-04-08T12:00:44Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I reckon Mae Whitman would be a good young Leia. Her? ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/53 "2016-04-08T16:13:16Z")
I’m curious about where in the timeline this movie exists. We know it is between the last prequel and Star Wars but from the trailer I have to assume it is pretty close to the events in Star Wars. After all, it makes no sense to steal the plans and then sit on them for years. Nor would I imagine the rebellion was keeping their HQ in any one place for long. Yavin is lovely this time a year but you can only hide the HQ of the rebellion from the Empire so long. Additionally, if some of those shots are from inside the Death Star and we see much of the exterior of the Death Star is in place… again it makes no sense that it is so near completion to then have a big gap in time from this movie to Star Wars. So I’m going to guess this has to be within weeks of the opening scene in Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/54 "2016-04-08T16:51:42Z")
> [@MeanJoe](#): > > I’m curious about where in the timeline this movie exists. We know it is between the last prequel and Star Wars but from the trailer I have to assume it is pretty close to the events in Star Wars. After all, it makes no sense to steal the plans and then sit on them for years. Nor would I imagine the rebellion was keeping their HQ in any one place for long. Yavin is lovely this time a year but you can only hide the HQ of the rebellion from the Empire so long. Additionally, if some of those shots are from inside the Death Star and we see much of the exterior of the Death Star is in place… again it makes no sense that it is so near completion to then have a big gap in time from this movie to Star Wars. So I’m going to guess this has to be within weeks of the opening scene in Star Wars. Yeah, I’m pretty sure the last scene of the movie is going to be Princess Leia’s ship taking off, possibly pursued by a Star Destroyer. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/55 "2016-04-08T17:12:41Z")
The idea behind the film is exciting, but the preview is annoying as all fuck, what with that alarm blaring thru a third of it.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/56 "2016-04-08T18:42:51Z")
> [@MeanJoe](#): > > So I’m going to guess this has to be within weeks of the opening scene in Star Wars. That’s absolutely the impression I’ve gotten – that Rogue One takes place more or less **immediately** before the events of A New Hope. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/57 "2016-04-08T18:51:47Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Yeah, I’m pretty sure the last scene of the movie is going to be Princess Leia’s ship taking off, possibly pursued by a Star Destroyer. With the inevitable dual cameos. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/58 "2016-04-08T18:55:41Z")
The saddest part to me is still no mention of a single member of the Ghost crew (Star Wars Rebels). They’ve pretty much got me convinced that the series ends really dark with Ezra turning and everyone dying but him. He goes on to become Snoke. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/59 "2016-04-08T19:09:31Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Yeah, I’m pretty sure the last scene of the movie is going to be Princess Leia’s ship taking off, possibly pursued by a Star Destroyer. Her ship “intercepts a transmission.” The last scene might be the doomed hero dashing off one last message to the nearest Rebellion-aligned vessel, but alas, Darth Vader’s Star Destroyer tracks it and goes after that ship, catching it at Tatooine. Cue opening scene of “Star Wars.” Princess Leia is not necessarily an important figure prior to the events of “Star Wars,” at least as far as anyone outside of her father and Ben Kenobi are aware; she might be the 17,864th most important Rebel sympathizer. Heck, maybe her adoptive father has been trying to keep her away from the rebellion but she’s secretly a part of it because, well, she’s Leia, it’s her nature to fight. And then she suddenly becomes REALLY important when the Death Star plans land in her lap, which draws Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to her, etc. etc. A somewhat tougher thing to get around will be the character of Tarkin, who is an immensely important person - in Star Wars he appears to be the Empire’s most senior military officer and in some ways superior to Darth Vader. Peter Cushing is rather dead, and would be 103 years old now anyway, so I’m not sure if they’re going to recast that role or avoid it. Depends how you approach the story. (ETA: Apparently they will use digital trickery to have Cushing’s Tarkin in the movie.) I realize this kind of violates the Star Wars movie universe rule that the galaxy’s destiny revolves around a small group of people who are always centrally vital and seem to pass it on in their genes; I’ve little doubt Rey is related to Han Solo or Luke Skywalker in some way, for instance. But, still, you never know. Clearly, though, this has to happen in a period of time immediately prior to “Star Wars,” because the Empire was REALLY stoked to use their big new toy. No way they built it and then spent a few years debugging the software that ran the payroll system. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/60 "2016-04-08T19:58:00Z")
I don’t know if it’s still canon, but Bail Organa was one of the founders of the Rebel Alliance. Leia being important enough to know their base is on Yavin, and taking the family ship to pick up the Death Star plans and then swing by to get Kenobi all without her father’s knowledge seems very unlikely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432.md?page=4)