They released news about the first non “Episode X” Star Wars movie coming out. The movies will be called Star Wars Anthology and the first is Rogue One. The story of how the Rebellion procured the plans to the first Death Star. Link is here.
But we already know how it happened: Many Bothans died while getting this information. According to Wookiepedia Bothans are furry creatures that looks like a combination of a wookie and a ewok so naturally the empire, who are famously accepting of all species, had no problems with furry bipedals running around their secret facilities.
This sounds like a lame way to have Darth Vader back in a Star wars film.
That was the second Death Star. This is how they got the plans Leia hides in R2. I think it was told in the novels and definitely was the plot of one of the games but they are throwing all that out and doing something new.
Is this going to be directed by Quentin Tarantino? Wave after wave of Bothans being mowed down in slow motion? Because Reasons?
Darth Vader’s breathing apparatus then gets clogged with loose fur and he has trouble breathing and he calls the service hotline but there are no technicians available until the next galactic day so he has to go get it fixed through a third party express service which is so expensive that funds that were allocated to fix the faulty Death star exhaust port shielding is now used to fix his breathing.
We’ve all been there, man.
Gareth Edwards. The guy who made Monsters and the latest Godzilla. Whatever you think of him, they guy knows how to film epic and from a human perspective.
Will they finally explain why a technologically advanced civilization has its citizens dressed like medieval peasants? And why (with FTL travel), they still use WWII-style anti-aircraft guns for defense against tie fighters? Why did they bother with a shitty planet like Tatooine? Are moisture farms a good living for the farmers?
There was a fun video game back in 1995 called Dark Forces where the player was a character named Kyle Katarn who was a mercenary soldier for the rebels. An early mission has the player break into an Empire facility and steal the Death Star plans. I remember the level as being well made and stylistically true to the Star Wars universe, though it’s been a very long time since I saw the game. I know Disney is doing its own thing, but I wonder if they’ll have a Kyle Katarn character just as a nod to LucasArts game studios.
Star Wars isn’t really science fiction; it’s “space opera”, or a fantasy-adventure story with technological trappings. Expecting any sort of technical or “hard science” explanation for anything in the movies will almost undoubtedly end in disappointment. It is what it is; if you want hard sci-fi, look elsewhere. 
I genuinely think Disney should look at Tarantino to direct one of the new Star Wars movies. And not because I want a scene where someone has “Bad Motherfucker” written on their lightsaber. I think this could be a cool idea not because I want to see an R rated Star Wars film, but because I think it would be interesting to see a PG rated Tarantino film. Tarantino’s an amazing filmmaker - I think stretching himself beyond his usual blood and expletive soaked comfort zone would benefit him as an artist. Also, I think he’s been building to it for a while now.
For the last decade or so, Tarantino has been working his way through the pulp of '70s cinema, and reinventing it genre by genre. He’s done gangster movies (a lot), WWII (Inglorius Basterds), Westerns (Django), and Kung-Fu (Kill Bill). (And each of those films includes at least one associated sub-genre: blacksploitation, revenge film, etc.) The one '70s genre he hasn’t touched is science fiction, and I think it’s inevitable that he’s going to go there eventually. Why not cut to the chase, and just give him a Star Wars film? Make it something dark and underworldish, but clean enough for something that’s still, at heart, a family-friendly franchise. Star Wars: Bounty Hunters, a film by Quentin Tarantino. Tell me you wouldn’t watch that.
Any idea if Starkiller is in it?
Without question, I wouldn’t watch that.
I don’t think they’d waste a Star Wars movie on a peculiar Director like Tarantino. Too high a risk of alienating the audience. Star Wars is always intended to be a family-friendly adventure series.
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Are you talking bout Tattoine? The equivalent of like rural Afghanistan in our reality?
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Why would the empire have defenses against it’s own fighters?
3.Uh the only reason Tattoine came into the plot at all is Leia was fleeing there from the empire, cuz her father told her Obiwan was there, and the only reason the empire landed troops was because they realized an escape pod with droids aboard possibly were carrying the stolen Death Star plans.
- What the hell else was of value on Tattooine but moisture?
Look I am not nearly the biggest SW geek that posts here, but digging holes in the original movies logic is unusual
Like I said, I don’t want an R rated Star Wars, I want a “family friendly” Tarantino.
And with one movie coming out a year, they can afford to take a few risks, particularly with the “off” movies.
I don’t think those particular words have ever been assembled in that order.
Exactly!
Everyone knows fashion is cyclical.
How about we give him Blake’s 7 instead?