Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Maybe he wants everyone to THINK he's just a regular admiral

He actually is Thrawn just wearing a mask kind of like Joker in the 89 batman film or Red Skull in First Avenger

edited 8th Apr '16 11:41:46 AM by DarthSion

But, what's Forest Whitaker's game in this one? I've heard rumors that he plays a bounty hunter of some sort, and the trailer shows him doing an Old Master schtick, what with the walking stick and the motivational speech.

Could be a warning speech instead of a motivational speech. Maybe the rebellion hired some bounty hunters along with their own operatives to help steal the Death Star plans.

As awesome as it would be to have some heroic bounty hunters for a change, the Rebellion traditionally has been too financially-strapped to pay for bounty hunters, plus huge numbers of Rebel personnel would have prices on their own heads, which would sway most bounty hunters away from siding with them.

That could be why he's telling her to be careful about getting involved. If he's a bounty hunter he's probably not one for ideals.

He's an ex-Jedi turned bounty hunter

Wikipedia says Whitaker's character is named "Rogue" and he's a veteran of the Clone Wars.

Oh, and Alan Tudyk plays a droid. A captured, reprogrammed Imperial droid now in the service of the Rebellion.

edited 8th Apr '16 9:52:00 PM by Robbery

Trailer hit yesterday and welp, looks like I've got some motivation for the rest of this year. >__>

Never trust Wikipedia for any character names. If there is a name, it would have been posted on the official Star Wars site or something similar.

Personally, I'm more excited for this movie than I am for Episode VIII.

That's hardly surprisingly, considering that it both comes out in less than a year, and we have a trailer for it.

That Grand Admiral/General/Whatever has a cool cape. I want one

Yes Grand Admiral Daggett certainly looks cool. And it's interesting to see him apparently going out onto the battlefield (that looks like the same beach where the AT-AT fight is taking place, and there are dead Stormtroopers washed up on the shore) in person (we rarely see Imperials officers/Moffs do that). Oh and I really want him to get scenes with Vader, the visual contrast would be too perfect to pass up.

I actually wish they hadn't put an actual Grand Admiral in the film, to see one lose vs a what looks to be a rag tag group of rebels. It is going to basically Worf them, Especially when it took herculean efforts to fight them in the old EU.

It would have been better to fight one when the rebels are better organized and have the ability to really fight.

edited 9th Apr '16 9:40:26 AM by Memers

So who do we think the dude in the black hood is?

On the other hand if they portray Grand Admirals as always requiring a herculean effort to overcome regardless of the Grand Admiral in question, then it raises a whole bunch of different questions about why they weren't used to prevent the Rebel Alliance from ever getting off the ground.

What makes Thrawn or someone like him so dangerous shouldn't be his rank, but the fact they got that rank in spite of systematic prejudice against non-humans in the Imperial military and with zero political connections.

Besides I don't really think the Grand Admiral in Rogue One is going to be defeated in battle. In fact he might win every single military engagement on paper, only failing in preventing the plans from being transmitted to Leia's ship.

Yeah I'm expecting most (or at least a big chunk) of the heroes to die in this film (with maybe one or two survivor barely making it out alive). The "victory" will not be in battle per se, but more successfully stealing the plans and then getting them to Leia.

The hooded man is the new grand inquisitor

While I doubt the movie will go this dark, it's quite possible that it will end with the last living member of the team transmitting the plans as they are being killed.

My actual best guess is that 2-3 members of the rebel team will be killed, while the rest (including Jyn Erso) will be captured, critically injured, or perhaps stranded.

I don't think that Disney would want to end the movie THAT bleakly, so I think that they'll keep at least one member alive (also in case they maybe want to use them in a potential future project at some point).

I know it's implausible enough to be ruled out for most practical purposes. It's just kind of interesting to have a prequel where none of the characters are truly safe (unless you count Mon Mothma of course, though I'm only really counting people on the Rebel strike force which she is not).

I suppose the reverse is also true. None of them are Doomed by Canon either. The setting is big enough that it's not hard to explain why any characters that do survive aren't in the OT.

I agree with that actually. I'm just trying to look at it from Disney's possible POV.

I'm predicting Jyn is the only one that makes it out alive.

As she will have proved worthy of Luke Skywalker's seed.

Luke then impregnates and leaves her to die off-screen.

Good ending, Disney.

I'm half-expecting this to happen.

Well you can blame GL for establishing the whole "mother figures don't matter in SW films, unless it's to die in order to further the hero's angst." And Disney would simply be guilty of continuing that trend. I REALLY hope that that doesn't end up happening, it feel like forcing (no pun intended) a "connection" where there doesn't need to be one.