# "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:** 7
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/121 "2016-08-13T03:30:26Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > As much as I would love to see this, with a double who can be digitally augmented (Mae Whitman remains my first choice), more likely they’ll use Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa for this part. Her? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/122 "2016-08-13T04:38:14Z")
Kylo Ren reacts: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CehVgQ43pn0/maxresdefault.jpg "KYLO REN REACTS to ROGUE ONE TRAILER 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehVgQ43pn0) ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/123 "2016-08-13T04:42:09Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I wonder, is some of this story set on Alderaan? Must be. Last scene of the movie. Order comes to the group from HQ, “well done everybody, now please assemble on Alderaan”.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/124 "2016-08-13T04:43:15Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > As much as I would love to see this, with a double who can be digitally augmented (Mae Whitman remains my first choice), more likely they’ll use Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa for this part. As it’s been established that R2 and C-3PO are his droids, both at the end of SWIII and in Star Wars Rebels, I think this very likely indeed. Still, they might show him handing the droids over to the Princess (however they manage her) on the ship, before heading back to Alderaan. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/125 "2016-08-13T08:12:22Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Her? > [@TBG](#): > > Her? > [@brossa](#): > > Her? _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/126 "2016-08-13T11:04:52Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/127 "2016-08-13T11:14:55Z")
I liked the trailer. Definitely has more of a “WWII movie” sort of vibe to it - sorta Dirty Dozen-esque, with the focus being on the soldiers on the ground and not so much the grand manipulations happening on top of the pyramid. Definitely looking forward to seeing it when it comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/128 "2016-08-13T11:21:16Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Huh? **GuanoLad** means that Smits’ character will provide that function in the film, not literally play Princess Leia. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/129 "2016-08-13T11:30:52Z")
That would thought was clear. I didn’t get all the “her” stuff. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/130 "2016-08-13T11:36:11Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Huh? Mae Whitman was in _Arrested Development_. The joke was whenever her character was mentioned they would respond with a confused [“Her?”](http://media.paperblog.fr/i/766/7664933/her-film-predit-fin-monde-movember-permanent-L-wy_Sfq.gif) Now whenever I see her spoken of online, it automatically gets a “Her?” ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/131 "2016-08-13T11:37:45Z")
Well, that’ll teach me for jumping in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/132 "2016-08-13T11:57:24Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > And while I WAS hoping, when I first heard about this project, that it would be a series of films about the Wedge-Antilles-led Rogue Squadron (which had their own extensive subgenre in the EU), I’m okay with this, too, and will probably go see it. That’s a good point. Even within the original films, “Rogue Squadron” is cannon, starting around Empire. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Actually, the AT-ATs are slightly visually tweaked. The heads are a different design, and don’t seem to have the “mouth” guns. Apparently they are something called an AT-ACT (All Terrain Armored Cargo Transport). ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/133 "2016-08-13T13:23:18Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > That’s a good point. Even within the original films, “Rogue Squadron” is cannon,… Please excuse the nitpick: Canon ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/134 "2016-08-13T15:38:43Z")
It’s been 11 years since RotS, so Jimmy Smits will be about a decade shy of his character age at this time. But that’s okay, just have him keep [this,](https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/jimmy-smits.jpg?w=614&h=425&crop=1) and he’s alright. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/135 "2016-09-08T12:28:13Z")
RoTS was shot in 2003. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/136 "2016-09-08T13:20:18Z")
Seriously? You revive a thread \*after a month \*\* to make a flipping nitpick about a two-year difference? Here I thought something new was happening, like a new trailer or something. - waiting on you to tell me it’s 5 days shy of a whole month… ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/137 "2016-10-15T11:48:33Z")
New trailer: Save the [del]cheerleader[/del] Rebellion, save the [del]world[/del] dream 🙂 Think I prefer the first one. Supercut: Brian ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/138 "2016-10-15T12:10:35Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Please excuse the nitpick: Canon Thanks Jimmy Wordsmits :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/139 "2016-10-15T15:32:24Z")
Speculation: if the main character’s father worked on designing the Death Star, and if he was doing so somewhat against his will, I wonder if the weakness with the small thermal exhaust port was an accident at all? ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432/140 "2016-10-15T18:56:54Z")
I’m going to preemptively declare how this movie should have ended. She uses her smart phone to upload the death star plans to WikiLeaks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-trailer/751432.md?page=8)