So Star Wars Rogue One has a teaser trailer

This trailer looked pretty cool! Either the writing will do something cool that you don't get from the trailer and it'll be great, or it'll be exactly what you see in the trailer and just be pretty good. I'm sure it'll be just fine either way.

What if Jyn Erso is just Jan Ors, and in this movie she straight-up recruits Kyle Katarn who's played by motherfucking Mads Mikkelsen. Oh my god.

I first thought maybe Diego Luna could be playing a reimagined Katarn, but looking at the cast noticed Mikkelsen was also in the movie. He could totally pull off the look (especially DF1 Katarn), and is apparently playing a "very important role" that isn't actually a bad guy.

That looks preeeeeetty fucking cool.

First time I saw it I thought it looked ok but after watching it a few more times yah, yah it looks pretty cool. Man I love all the Empire tech - Star Destroyers, Ties, AT-ATs, the armor, the insignia.. Empire is so goddamn cool.

I'm so confused. What is this? Is this not Episode VIII? Why is Garry Whitta writing a Star Wars movie? Did I wake up in the darkest timeline?

I'm really excited to see how Death Star trench scene in this one looks.

I think this looks cooler than pretty much all of the other Star Wars movies. But I tend to think those are just alright and kind of over-rated.

If at least one line of dialog in the movie isn't "Shoot that guy" I'm going to be sad.

It's too early to tell, but I'm cautiously optimistic that this'll be better than Episode VII.

@theht: She's a Rebel spy working inside the Imperial forces to get the plans. She doesn't defect.

@sterling: A numbered episode comes out every other year. The years in between are these anthology movies that tell side stories and aren't necessarily chronological. This one is set between episodes 3 and 4, and is about the stealing of the Death Star plans.

Whitta wrote the first draft. The shooting script (rewritten by someone else) is apparently a good deal different. That's par for the course in Hollywood. Episode VII was the same deal: Michael Arndt wrote the first draft, then Abrams and Kasdan tore it apart and made it their own.

After The Force Awakens I have zero interest in any other Star Wars movies. That was such a steaming pile of, cash in on nostalgia with zero creative effort. They might as well lose the director's and just focus test 24/7.

Visually it seems unlike Star Wars, but I think that's the point. Not sure how I feel about the limited exposure of the main character, but the rest seems interesting to me...and FOREST is a cool guy.

Yeah, and again, the tease with Forest Whitaker's voice-over and that shot is probably a red herring, but it'd be fun if it actually wasn't.

@theht: I agree, but I don't see Disney taking chances with Star Wars. It's basically their license to print money at this point.

@magusmaleficus: I dunno. It's Star Wars after all. That alone is probably enough to guarantee they'll rake it in. Besides, they already did their "play it safe" movie with The Force Awakens, and if they're gonna take any chances it'd make sense to do it in a spin-off (not to mention the one spin-off that isn't about Han Solo or Boba Fett).

Nononono i can't fantasize like that it would be too painful if this amazing hypothesis shows not to be true ;_;

Looks awesome. It just feels so good to have Star Wars back.

My thoughts exactly, how is something that is as literally as long as any other trailer considered a teaser? I know Force Awakens was hyped up and marketed to all hell and back, so maybe when it comes to Star Wars they consider a trailer a teaser of things to come, back man, no, just no.

In any case I liked the trailer, it had a nice dark tone to it. Though Force Awakens trailer made it look more dark than it turned out to be, so I wont get my hopes up too high. I like the remix of the music though.
I also dig that the first two new Star Wars movie have female leads, the first two trilogies were pretty lacking in that regard, so that's pretty sweet.
In any case, I don't need to see anything more, it's new Star Wars, I'm gonna watch it, like, I'm just going too. So fingers crossed, Force Awakens set a pretty middling bar in my opinion, so I don't think it will be any worse, and have hopes it will be better!

They should stick to this "teaser" in my opinion and every studio should only release teasers in my opinion. Make us excited for things to come, don't show your jokes you have and important bits. While Star Wars has been pretty good with their trailers the rest of the movie trailer business have been terrible with the same editing formula, same beginning piano bits and THOOOOOM after every cut and a stinger at the end.

I might be more excited for this than I was for 7.

ALSO YO IP MAN!!!!

@villainy: lol he looked like he was ready to kill someone

Nothing too big jumping out at me but I'm interested in what kind of stories can be told in the universe without jedi/siths as a crutch to lean on so I'll bite. I should manage my donnie yen expectations though, "Think Blade 2, not Ip Man" says I to myself but hopefully he at least gets some dialogue than just being a martial artist rebel. And them showing that lady in the imperial gear would have to mean that she doesn't end up turnng bad right?

In the old EU, there are about 4 different stories of people stealing those stupid Death Star plans. Two of those were even friggin' video games (Dark Forces and the PSP game with the lady). They really should find a different plot device.

I'm all for a Star Wars story with little to no space wizards, but this teaser was uninteresting as hell. Also hate that the Skywalker/force theme is playing when this movie is suppose to be not about any of that.

If you haven't played TIE Fighter, you really should. It's filled with cool Imperial stuff. It's pretty dated graphically, and it lacks the sensation of movement that Freespace has. However, you could just turn on invulnerability and just go through the game's story. It's full of goddamn cool Imperial tech and force lightning.

@zelyre: I grew up as a PC gamer in the early 90's so I had the pleasure of experiencing both TIE Fighter and Descent Freespace 2.

@theht: I think her defection to the Empire is probably a need-to-know orchestrated plan by the Rebels. Mon Mothma knows, maybe one or two other folks, that's it. That way the spy has plausible deniability on her side. Makes sense as a character arc--rebellious girl becomes selfless hero.

@magusmaleficus: probably. i'm gonna secretely hold out hope it's just an abridged retelling/reimagining of Dark Forces.

Where does this fall canonically? Between what movies?

Weeks/months before A New Hope and what, 16-18 years after Sith?

I wouldn't be surprised if the very last shot of the movie somehow flows right into the Tantive IV running from the Star Destroyer in New Hope.

III and IV, the opening of A New Hope (IV) is the Empire boarding the ship that holds the *stolen* death star plans so I would expect this to lead right into IV.

@theht: It's been, oh, fifteen years or so since I played that. Dunno if it holds up... Didn't Brad do a Encyclopedia Bombastica of that? Maybe it was the sequel, I can't remember...

Sign me up.

@magusmaleficus: Yeah he totally did. It's holds up about as well as you'd expect from one of those really old first-person shooters.

@rhombus_of_terror: I think he wrote the first draft but the screenplay has been rewritten at least once since then. Last time I checked there was another writer doing it, assuming IMDB is correct.

@pilgore: @zelyre: Cool, thanks.

Looks dope. I like the idea of a rag tag group of badasses fighting behind the Empire's back.

Credits are weird thing. Hollywood will often get a big name writer to pen a script then have their own, in-house, writer do re-writes. Sometimes this is to streamline the script to fit into a budget (combine shooting locations, eliminate/combine characters, change characters to fit casting hopes, etc.) or to completely rework the script from the bottom up.

Usually it's the former. Gary probably still has most of his ideas up on the big screen but a writer was brought it to form it more in the Lucas/Disney style.

Needs more Donnie Yen.

I was already sold on the concept of this being, essentially, a heist movie set in the Star Wars universe. Now I'm even more excited for this. Seeing everyone dressed up in costumes that look straight out of the original movie, AT-AT's doing their thing, and the OG Death Star put a big stupid smile on my face.

Also, that siren.

I have a very strong feeling about this, especially since those particular storm troopers in dark armor look a lot like dark troopers.

Mannnn, I know that Disney is doing everything it can to squeeze absolutely every possible dollar out of Star Wars, but god fucking damn it, they are squeezing it in a way that I can't resist.

...that sounded different in my head.

I was all ready to be cynical and say "Oh, they're going to Marvel-ize the hell out of Star Wars" but it turns out I'm still beholden to my inner 7-year-old and get excited whenever I see an AT-AT on screen.

I'm not sure how I feel about not seeing any lightsabers or any mention of Vader yet.... It can't be a Star Wars movie without a lightsaber fight or a Sith Lord.... can it? But other than that, looks pretty cool.

As long as it's good I don't care. They can do whatever the hell they want with the main movies and the spin-offs, they could have Obi-Wan come back as a Ewan Mcgregor talking-Force Ghost, they could have some dude play a reincarnated Young Han Solo, they could make a C3P0/BB-8 softcore porno... I don't care. Just make it good! MAKE ME PROUD DISNEY, MAKE ME PROUD!

That's what I thought.

The Imperial Klaxon holds a huge power over me.

Yeah, but where are the Bothans?

In all seriousness though, this looks awesome. It has my interest to say the least. Also, I really love how the set/costume design and even the CGI look so painstakingly done to capture the same colors and feel of IV.

@whitestripes09: I know you were joking but, for what it's worth, Bothans were involved in obtaining the second Death Star plans, not the first.

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I'll go back into my geek box now.

Interstitial stories that describe events that are already known are rarely very interesting to me. Even though it was an OK trailer, it's tough for me to get over that.