I'm ecstatic that we'll only have to wait a year and a half until Episode VIII-as well as only half a year between SW movies after next year!

I've always thought-if Harry Potter can release their films every year and a half, why not SW?! Especially when it's run by Disney, which has no limit to staffing and funding. Looks like they will literally be doing what I assumed possible: having multiple teams work on multiple SW movies simultaneously.

Great news!


(Sorry for the double post-didn't think of this till it was too late to edit.)

 

Milk

 

Ha! A Star Wars Top Gun. Jerry Bruckheimer even pitched Top Gun as "Star Wars on Earth," which is very obvious in the staging of Top Gun's dogfight at the end. The final battles in both movies even have repeated shots. For the last few years there's been talk of a Top Gun sequel with a young female lead (that I hope never happens; Top Gun doesn't need a sequel or remake.) I like the casting of Felicity "no I'm not Emma Roberts" Jones. While I'm intensely spoiler-free for the trilogy, I kind of want to know more about this one.

 

I'm excited, because it sounds like this is exactly what I was hoping for in a spin-off. Instead of being a solo movie about a saga character, which I think is a bad idea, it's about someone new, someone who isn't a Jedi or a major Rebel or anything. I want to see the GFFA through a smaller, more average point of view.

I still don't like there being a new movie each year though, even if some are spin-offs. New SW episodes have always been more than just movies, they're events. I feel like by becoming a commonplace thing, it'll loose some (or a lot) of what makes it special. Like having Christmas every month. I dunno.

 

Sounds boring.

 

Well I'm excited for it. To me it's kind of like experiencing an EU onscreen. Something to fill the gaps between episodes. I might prefer an origin story of a character actually, but I do like this particular idea a lot. The dogfights have always been some of my favorite aspects of SW, and Rogue One makes it sound like we will get plenty of that.

Also, the fact that this is really born from an idea John Knoll had is quite interesting to me. I've always felt he had some interesting ideas on how to portray certain scenes in the prequels (like the coruscant speeder chase for example).

 

Yes, I do like when STAR WARS movies are events and don't understand the rush to do the "spin-off/standalone" films while doing a Trilogy in the main storyline and in less time than the last trilogies. People compare it to the whole Avengers stuff but those movies aren't jumping around a timeline. Still, the general public doesn't really feel that Star Wars is so special and the biggest most monumental film franchise anymore and hasn't since the late '80s when network TV airings were still considered big events. During the Prequels we longtime SW fans had to adjust to seeing that a lot of people were more interested in Spider-Man or The Matrix or whatever. They still like it; Star Wars is ubiquitous and common now. Barely a day goes by that I don't come across a picture someone took of someone in a Stormtrooper uniform.

 

How can it sound boring when all we have is the title and one cast member? This is the fun time, when the project is a clean slate on which to speculate about all kinds of things.

 

The upcoming SW film is a direct sequel to the OT, featuring OT characters. Why wouldn't the focus be on an OT and post-OT related world?

The PT, which I do enjoy, dominated the SW landscape for over a decade. There is a near endless plethora of PT material.

Common sense (not to mention good business sense) dictates the focus. But don't worry, Lucasfilm/Disney know there are millions of PT fans. Of course they'll eventually mine that era (I actually wouldn't put it past Disney to redo the Prequels all together at some point).

 

1. Apart from TCW and the films, it is all non-canon now (although that admittedly does not effect my canon or my enjoyment of it very much)

2. Please no

 

Cannon is irrelevant to me. The material was still created and is there to enjoy for those who want to.

But if you want to go that road, the PT trilogy still has more canonical material than the OT since ALL of the previous expanded universe is now under the "legends" non-canonical banner, including the plethora of OT and post-OT related material. TCW has seven seasons and a film, that is tons of material, all of it still canonical. The canonical expanded universe OT material is very much in "catch up" mode.

I personally don't see this happening anytime soon, but 20-30 years down the line? Absolutely a possibility. The name of the game is business. And what is canonical today could easily, yet again, be retconned tomorrow. At this point I think that includes the prequel trilogy.

And while I don't imagine Disney will ever remake the OT, I can see them shifting canon yet again by catering to fans who didn't like the changes George did to the originals. I think they'll be solving the "who shot first" question with an official restoration to the original idea outcome at some point as well.

 

So, that Rogue One, eh?
I was thinking the other day while watching Rebels:
The crawl of ANH says "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory over the evil Galactic Empire."
Well, they've had minor victories on Rebels, but nothing that resembles what's in that crawl. What if the plot of Rogue One is the first thing Star Wars ever gave us? Just something to chew over.

 

That would be awesome! It would start with desperate rebels and end just like in ANH basically. Kind of like a reboot of a ANH come to think of it, just not replacing it.

 

I posted my idea in the spin-off forum a few times, but some of you don't visit there, so I'll post it here.

It's a short-time before A New Hope, and the Rebel Alliance have not been much of a threat to the Empire so far. With the Rebels' best X-wing pilots gone on other missions, General Dodonna organizes a group of rogue pilots and misfits to pose as Imperial generals and steal the Death Star plans. This group of castoffs later become known as the 'Rogue Squadron', and we watch the characters grow as the bad batch of the Alliance to the best squadron in the galaxy. The story would be similar to the Wraith Squadron book by Aaron Allston and the Rookies/Domino Squad arc from The Clone Wars.

Maybe by the title, 'Rogue One', they're talking about the first group of Rogue Squadron pilots.

 

This movie is basically already the best star Wars spinoff ever. How have they not started filming though? Is the movie getting a December release?

 

December 2016. Episode VII still hadn't started filming at this point last year. There's plenty of time.

 

I was kind of assuming we'd have a Rogue One teaser with TFA. Timing definitely works - we got the first TFA trailer in late November last year, so if they're on the (relatively) same timeline for production with Rogue One, there's no reason to think they wouldn't have some footage ready.

That being said, I really don't want a post-credits scene. That's Marvel's thing, it's not a Star Wars thing.

 

We need some more post-Celebration discussion about this. We sort of know a premise, and the timeline. EHT maybe some guidance is in order. Should we have another thread to discuss this?

 

I went ahead and renamed this one, making it the official Rogue One NSA thread.

 

Pretty much the more I hear about this film the more I want to see it. Glad I made a 180 on my initial feelings, I much prefer being optimistic about these things

 

Looks like I was right! Can't wait!

 

I carefully worded my statement to avoid those potential landmines. Since we're tagged with Official Info, it's game on!
Since we're about a year and 3/4 away from Rogue One, what do we all think of the premise? Space battles are sure to be front and center, but I've been wrong before. I'm super excited about the things that are headed our way!