While we're still smarting that we didn't get out to Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, all the great tidbits coming out of the Celebration have us more excited than ever for the future of Star Wars.
Following on the heels of the new
The Force Awakens trailer, on Sunday, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and director Gareth Edwards confirmed on stage that the upcoming film
Rogue One will be the first standalone in a series titled Star Wars Anthology, which will explore and expound on the rich world of the Star Wars universe, filling in gaps between episodes. For
Rogue One, that looks like covering the events between Episodes III and IV...and following "a band of resistance fighters uniting for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans".
Thankfully,
Entertainment Weekly has a great summary of the first glimpses of
Rogue One footage for those of us who were stuck halfway across the country:
The footage rolls, and we hear Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi: “For more than a thousand generations, the Jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.”
The visual is a lush, rocky planet, with bird-like creatures flying over a valley, as the point of view lifts to see a TIE Fighter scream overhead. There’s the crescent of a dim moon in the blue sky above. Except …
That’s no moon.
As the camera rises above the treeline we see the laser disc of the original Death Star looming over the planet.
The footage cuts to black over the sound of panicking pilot voices, screaming at each other over their intercoms.
The
official Star Wars blog was also kind enough to share the concept art that was revealed at the panel.
What do you guys think? And what other "gaps" do you think it'd be cool to see filled in the Star Wars Anthology series?
