Rogue One [Official Info] Cast of Rogue One

The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008’s Oscar-winning Milk and the critically acclaimed Killing Them Softly; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcomingMississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced , directed and starred in the award-winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically-acclaimed Lee Daniels’ The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006’s The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006’s Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance-capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon-to-be-releasedCon Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA-winning filmFour Lions.

Felicity Jones​

Diego Luna​

Ben Mendelsohn​

Donnie Yen​

Jiang Wen​

Forest Whitaker​

Mads Mikkelsen​

Alan Tudyk​

Riz Ahmed​

“Rogue One takes place before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and will be a departure from the saga films but have elements that are familiar to the Star Wars universe,” says Kathleen Kennedy. “It goes into new territory, exploring the galactic struggle from a ground-war perspective while maintaining that essentialStar Wars feel that fans have come to know. Gareth is such an innovative director and I’m so excited to be working with him and the extraordinary ensemble cast he’s selected for ‘Rogue One.’”
Veteran ILM visual effects supervisor John Knoll, who shares a long history with the Star Wars movies, dating back to the mid-1990s, originated the idea for the movie. Allison Shearmur (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Cinderella), John Knoll, Simon Emanuel (The Dark Knight Rises, Fast & Furious 6) and Jason McGatlin (Tintin, War of the Worlds) are executive producers. Kiri Hart and John Swartz (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) are co-producers.
To create the lived-in, realistic feel of Rogue One, Edwards chose Greig Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty, Foxcatcher) to be his director of photography and Neil Corbould (Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan) to be his special effects supervisor. Star Wars and Lucasfilm veteran Doug Chiang (Star Wars: Episodes I-II, Forrest Gump) and Neil Lamont (supervising art director for the Harry Potter series, Edge of Tomorrow) will be the production designers. Additional crew members will include stunt coordinator Rob Inch (World War Z, Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger), creature effects supervisor Neal Scanlan (Prometheus) and co-costume designers Dave Crossman (costume supervisor for the Harry Potter series, Saving Private Ryan) and Glyn Dillon (costume concept artist for Kingsman: The Secret Service, Jupiter Ascending).
http://www.starwars.com/news/rogue-one-the-daring-mission-has-begun-cast-and-crew-announced

 

I see Anakin's podracer engine, right?

 

Psyched about Donnie Yen being in Rogue One. And Mads is always welcome too. Definitely one of my few must see in the theatre movies next year.

 

Never heard of most of these people, but I guess they'll be okay.

 

Very, very intrigued by what I'm seeing/hearing here!

Also, seems that the "Anthology" label has been dropped in favor of the subtitle "A Star Wars Story."

 

This cast is amazing!

 

Looks like a sweet cast. In-costume pic, too!

 

Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelson, Alan Tudyk!! WOW, and I thought that this cast was amazing before!!

 

so all that cast and 0 aliens.

 

Add in Tudyk's CGI character then you have the SEVEN SAMURAI / MAGNIFICENT SEVEN right there.

 

Anyone want to label who we see in the picture? other than Felicity Jones i'm not sure exactly if the others are who I think they are.

Diego Luna top left, Riz Ahmed bottom left

Donnie Yen bottom right, ? top right

 

Mads and Mendelson. Heck yeah.

Also I'm claiming Felicity Jones as my girlfriend.

 

I've got a good feeling about this one, cast looks good, writing teams seems pretty solid and I've actually got some story & tone related information about the movie to justifiably care about it.

 

Alan Tudyk is playing a mo-cap character, so odds are he'll be playing an alien.

 

That podracer engine is the new Wilhelm scream. Gotta look out for it.

 

Felicity is looking very "Solo-esque" in that pic (especially the way that she holsters her blaster).

 

Looks gritty and a little post-apocalyptic . I like it.

 

The one thing I took away from the photo is just how gritty this movie is going to look.

 

Well they did hire people who worked on Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, and Zero Dark Thirty to work on this after all. And it's supposed to be centered around the "ordinary grunt" types. So yeah, seems appropriate.

 

I love the Cast Photo, doesn't tell you to much but makes you intrigued and wanting more!!!!!!!!!

 

Mads is also a performance capture character. Django Fett - yup that's Donnie Yen on the bottom right.

 

This cast is amazing! So many great actors!
I said this in the D23 thread, but I think I might have yelled "Wash!!" a little too loud for being at work. Luckily, not very many people were around.

That picture is great. So gritty and dark. I already want to make Felicity's costume.


(Also changed title to official.)

 

I was just about to say its a full gone conclusion that he will either be playing an alien or a droid.

 

Diego Luna looks a lot like Biggs Darklighter