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Watch the new trail­er for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

07 Apr 2016

Words by David Jenkins

Take a peek at Gareth ​“Godzil­la“ Edwards’ take on the first large-scale Star Wars spin-off movie.

After the mag­nif­i­cence of Star Wars: The Force Awak­ens, the wait for Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII seems all the more unbear­able. But thank­ful­ly, we don’t have to wait until Decem­ber 2017 to return to the galaxy far, far away.

Billed as ​‘A Star Wars Sto­ry’, Rogue One, which is being helmed by Mon­sters and Godzil­la direc­tor Gareth Edwards, is set for release in Decem­ber of 2016. Tak­ing place in the years before A New Hope, it’s being billed as a heist movie in which a band of Rebel fight­ers car­ry out a des­per­ate attempt to steal the plans for the orig­i­nal Death Star.

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Those hop­ing to see younger ver­sions of heroes like Han Solo and Princess Leia will be sore­ly dis­ap­point­ed, but Edwards has pulled togeth­er a crack­ing cast: Felic­i­ty Jones, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendel­sohn, For­est Whitak­er and Mads Mikkelsen are all set to join up, but it’s unclear who’ll be sid­ing with the Rebels or the Empire.

And if this first trail­er is any­thing to go by, Rogue One will bear lit­tle resem­blance to the rol­lock­ing, old-fash­ioned adven­tures of the orig­i­nal saga. There are Stormtroop­ers and AT-ATs and sub­tle hints of John Williams’ score, but this has a more down and dirty feel than we’re used to. We’re not hang­ing back with the big heroes: we’re on the front lines. This is Star Wars, but not as we know it.

**Update 13 Octo­ber, 2016**

The sec­ond offi­cial trail­er has just dropped and it’s a real doozy. Watch it and let us know what you think @LWLies.

Rogue One will be released 16 December.

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