Somebody show him the Star Wars Holiday Special; make sure it has the “Fighting the frizzies, at 11” news tag.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that I think the reaction to Rogue One is going to be lukewarm (No pun intended) think about it, yet another movie about a Death Star, it seems Star Wars is just reduced to its base parts, Desert planet, Storm Troopers, Darth Vader-esque character and Death Star type weapon and we already had a film last year about a similar thing.
Plus some of the acting in the trailer left alot to be desired.
My dad asked about it when a commercial came on the other day. The only way I could really get anything across was to not entirely accurately say it was pretty much Episode 3.5.
I think the marketing is intentionally playing down the connection to the original movie for this very reason. They realize that Star Wars fatigue is a real risk, and this movie is an attempt to expand the universe. Fans will already know the connection, and for others who are more prone to fatigue, it seems more like a separate story line.
I have not been paying close attention and I thought “huh, they’re bringing Vader back to life. How are they going to make that work?” But no, I didn’t realize it was a midquel.
I’m one of those who assumed it was going to be episode 8. But in my defense, all of my media watching is virtually commercial free.
It wasn’t until I was visiting with my mother a week ago when I happened to catch a trailer on the TV. I saw a brief image of Darth Vader and thought: “Hey, wait a minute.”
What with Mon Motha being involved…I can see how people might think these are the “Bothan Spies”
Thats the only possible confusion I can see.
Maybe that will be “Rogue Two”…the Suicide Squad that Amanda Motha keeps sending out to get Death Star info.
There are varying degrees of Star Wars fandom, of course (I’ve only seen the original movie maybe 50 or 60 times, which makes me a piker compared to some), but I can’t see how anyone who’s even vaguely familiar with the plot of the original 1977 movie finds it difficult to see where Rogue One fits in the timeline. I guess I can see how someone who hasn’t seen the movie might be confused, but the original movie *starts *with the iconic rolling text that explicitly states that the plans have been stolen by the Rebellion.
That scroll is followed by the equally iconic sequence of Darth Vader’s star destroyer chasing the ship carrying Princess Leia but also, and more importantly, the plans to the Death Star, which Leia hides in R2-D2 just before being taken captive by Vader. The only reason Vader is chasing Leia is because he’s looking for the Death Star plans (the word “plans” is stated or seen five or six times alone during the first seven minutes of the movie). Several more pointed references to the plans being in R2-D2 are made throughout the movie, until the Millennium Falcon finally makes it to the Rebellion base and the plans can be downloaded from R2-D2 for analysis.
Again, maybe I’m too familiar with the plot of the original movie to be fully objective, but I don’t think one necessarily needs to be able to quote it in order to see that it will be preceded by the events of Rogue One.
I think there was one in Age of Ultron.
His X-Men movie looks good.
Here are the first two paragraphs of the opening crawl from the very first Star Wars movie from 1977:
[QUOTE=Star Wars: A New Hope]
It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire’s
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.
[/QUOTE]
And that’s the plot of Rogue One.
Yeah it will be confusing at first, but once these interstitial non-Skywalker movies have become a regular thing, it will be easier to explain.
I think some people are over estimating how much the average Movie goer thinks about Star Wars 
At least that is what my recent experience is bearing out.
As I understand it, Lucas originally wanted a trilogy but didn’t think it would be greenlit, so he compressed everything he had down into one movie. Once that was successful, he re-expanded and made the second and third movies. Thus, you end up with the same ending twice.
You missed two movies. Rogue One will be the tenth Star Wars movie made, not the eighth.
(I swear, sometimes it seems like I’m the only one who remembers the Ewok movies)
That would be pretty confused. Bothan spies had nothing to do with the first Death Star, that was the second one. Pre EU wipe it was Kyle Katarn, now it’s these new guys.
TV movies don’t count.
So what does that make it in Machete order?
Shall I prepare your escape pod?
Rogue One has been done already.
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[spoiler]Trooper Clerks
Kevin Smith meets Star Wars.[/spoiler]