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Rogue One - Wikipedia. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, or simply Rogue One, is a 2. American epicspace opera film directed by Gareth Edwards.

The screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy is from a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment of the Star Wars. Anthology series, set immediately before the events of the original Star Wars film.

The cast includes Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Rogue One follows a group of rebels on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, the Galactic Empire's superweapon. Based on an idea first pitched by Knoll ten years before it entered development, the film was made to be different in tone and style from the traditional Star Wars films, including omitting the customary opening crawl. Principal photography on the film began at Elstree Studios near London during early August 2.

February 2. 01. 6. The film went through extensive reshoots and additional filming in mid- June 2. Gilroy joining for these. The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 1. United States on December 1.

Rogue One received generally positive reviews, with praise for its acting, action sequences, musical score, and darker tone, although some criticism was directed at the characterization and the film's use of computer- generated imagery to recreate the likenesses of some actors. The film has grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the second highest- grossing film of 2. It received two Academy Awards nominations for Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects. Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic arrives to press him into completing the Death Star, a space station- based superweapon capable of destroying planets. Galen's wife Lyra is killed in the confrontation while their daughter Jyn escapes and is taken to safety by Rebel extremist Saw Gerrera. Fifteen years later, cargo pilot Bodhi Rook defects from the Empire, taking a holographic message recorded by Galen to Gerrera on the desert moon Jedha. Rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor frees Jyn from an Imperial labor camp at Wobani before bringing her to the Rebel leader Mon Mothma, who convinces her to find and rescue Galen so the Alliance can learn more about the Death Star.

Cassian is covertly ordered to kill Galen rather than extract him. Jyn, Cassian, and reprogrammed Imperial droid. K- 2. SO travel to Jedha, where the Empire is removing kyber crystals from the holy city to power the Death Star while Gerrera and his partisans are engaged in an armed insurgency against them.

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With the aid of blind spiritual warrior Chirrut . Gerrera shows her the message, in which Galen reveals he has secretly built a vulnerability into the Death Star and directs them to retrieve the schematics from an Imperial data bank on the planet Scarif.

On the Death Star, Krennic orders a low- powered test shot which destroys Jedha's capital. Jyn and her group take Rook and flee the moon, but Gerrera remains to die with the city. Grand Moff Tarkin congratulates Krennic before using Rook's defection and security leak as a pretext to take control of the project. Rook leads the group to Galen's Imperial research facility on the planet Eadu, where Cassian chooses not to kill Galen. Jyn makes her presence known moments before Rebel bombers attack the facility. Galen is wounded and dies in his daughter's arms, before she escapes with her group on board a stolen Imperial cargo shuttle. Krennic is summoned by Darth Vader to answer for the attack on Eadu.

Krennic seeks his support for an audience with the Emperor, but Vader instead orders him to ensure no further breaches occur. Jyn proposes a plan to steal the Death Star schematics using the Rebel fleet but fails to get approval from the Alliance Council, who feel victory against the Empire is now impossible. Frustrated at their inaction, Jyn's group lead a small squad of Rebel volunteers to raid the databank themselves. Arriving at Scarif on the stolen Imperial ship, which Rook dubs .

The Rebel fleet learns of the raid from intercepted Imperial communications and deploy in support. K- 2. SO sacrifices himself so Jyn and Cassian can retrieve the data.

Rook is killed by a grenade after informing the Rebel fleet that it must deactivate the shield surrounding the planet to allow the transmission of the schematics. Jyn and Cassian obtain the schematics, but they are ambushed by Krennic, who is eventually shot and wounded by Cassian. Jyn transmits the schematics to the Rebel command ship. The Death Star enters orbit above Scarif, where Tarkin uses another low- power shot to destroy the compromised base, killing Krennic, Cassian, and Jyn. The Rebel fleet prepares to jump to hyperspace but many of the fleet's ships are intercepted by Vader's flagship. Vader boards the Rebel command ship and attempts to regain the schematics, but a small starship escapes with them on board.

Aboard the fleeing ship, Princess Leia declares that the schematics will provide hope for the Rebellion. Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso, a young renegade woman who is detained for her crimes against the Empire until she is freed by the Rebel Alliance. He is said to be one of the Guardians of the Whills. Evazan, General Hurst Romodi and Captain Raymus Antilles, respectively.

Simon Farnaby plays a member of Blue Squadron. Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman, director and producer of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, respectively, cameo as two Death Star technicians. The canon that he created was the Star Wars saga. Right now, Episode VII falls within that canon. The spinoff movies, or we may come up with some other way to call those films, they exist within that vast universe that he created.

There is no attempt being made to carry characters (from the stand- alone films) in and out of the saga episodes. Consequently, from the creative standpoint, it's a roadmap that George made pretty clear. The thing that inspired this movie was a crawl and what was written in that.

There's this feeling that if we did a crawl, then it'll create another movie. And so the honest answer is you'll have to wait and see. Good guys are bad. Bad guys are good. It's complicated, layered; a very rich scenario in which to set a movie. In Iceland, the crew shot in Reynisfjara, and around the mountains of Hj.

Gilroy was initially brought on in order to retool the ending of the film, which was not coming together as hoped, under Edwards's direction. At least some footage from the unused ending was produced and made it into early trailers. ILM used CGI and digitally altered archive footage. Lucasfilm secured permission from the late actor's estate to include him in the film. Cushing's family were heavily involved with the creation and had input right down to .

George was looking at Flash Gordon, the old serials, and John was looking at Gustav Holst and different composers along the way to get a baseline for what he wanted to communicate. There is a wonderful musical language that John put together for the original films. I wanted to honor that vernacular but still do something new with it, something that was still me in a way.—Michael Giacchino on balancing the musical traditions of Star Wars with his original music for Rogue One. It will be in a few weeks from now, and it is very exciting and frightening at the same time because it's such a legendary project. To be called to come after John Williams.. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in November 2.

Giacchino stated: . But it also has this huge, huge heart at the center of it, and that was the one thing I just didn't want to discount. Yes, it's an action movie, and it's a Star Wars film, and it has all the things that you would come to expect and love about that, but I didn't want to forget that it was also an incredibly emotional movie as well. Cult Horror Movies Step (2017).

That was what really pulled me in.