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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Wookieepedia. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"A rebellion built on hope."―Tagline[src]Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, simply known as Rogue One, is a 2. Gareth Edwards and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, amongst many others. The screenplay, written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, is based on a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. The film's score is composed by Michael Giacchino, marking the first live- action film in the Star Warscanon to not be scored by John Williams.
It is the first film in the Star Wars Anthology Series. Rogue One stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, and Alan Tudyk. Genevieve O'Reilly reprises her role as Mon Mothma, the leader of the Rebel Alliance; O'Reilly portrayed the character for 2. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, but her scenes were cut. The film also features Darth Vader. The film, which began production in August 2. Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
It is set closer to the latter film and focuses on the formation of the Rebel Alliance and their efforts to steal the plans to the Death Star, an event that was referenced in the opening crawl of A New Hope. Jyn Erso, played by Jones, and a group of other characters band together to steal the plans from the Galactic Empire. Edwards has described the film as a grounded, war- based movie, one in which normal people have to come together to fight the Empire as opposed to relying on the Jedi or the Force. Synopsis. Approximately sixyears after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Imperial Director Orson Krennic and a squad of his Death troopers land on the planet. Lah'mu. and forcibly recruitscientist. Watch Laid To Rest Megavideo. Galen Erso to complete the work of the Death Star, a spacestation capable of destroying entire planets. Galen's wife, Lyra Erso, is killed when she shoots and injures Krennic to stop him from taking her husband.
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Their daughter, Jyn Erso, goes into hiding until Saw Gerrera, leader of the Partisans rescues her and takes her in. Jyn in prison. Thirteen years later, an adult Jyn Erso wakes up from a sleep to find herself in the Detention center on Wobani. On the Ring of Kafrene trading outpost, the Rebel. Intelligenceofficer. Captain. Cassian Andor meets with a contact, a man named Tivik, who reveals that an Imperial cargo pilot, named Bodhi Rook, defected from the Galactic Empire the day before and is telling people that they are making a weapon with the Kyber crystals from Jedha. After persuasion from Andor, Tivik reveals that the weapon is a planet killer and that Rook is telling people that Galen Erso, an old friend of Saw Gerrera's, sent him.
Jyn is freed from Imperial captivity and brought to Rebel leaders by Rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor. They convince her to rescue Galen so that they can learn about the Death Star. However, Cassian is covertly ordered to kill Galen, rather than extract him, to prevent the weapon from being built. Jyn, along with Rebel officer Cassian Andor and his reprogrammed Imperial droid K- 2.
SO, arrive on the moon Jedha where there is an armed uprising against the Empire. With the aid of blind warrior Chirrut Îmwe and mercenary Baze Malbus, she reunites with her old revolutionary mentor Saw Gerrera, who has captured Rook. He shows her the hologram, in which her father expresses his love for her and discloses his coerced help on the project. The hologram also reveals that her father covertly compromised the Death Star's design by including a subtle vulnerability in its reactor that can be used to destroy it. He tells her that the structural plans are at an Imperial high- security data bank on the planet Scarif. Meanwhile, Imperial Governor Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin meets with Krennic on the Death Star and expresses skepticism about the project and its management. As a demonstration, Krennic uses the weapon to destroy Jedha's capital and crush the insurgency led by Gerrera, forcing Jyn and her group to flee with Rook, while Gerrera elects to remain and die with the city.
Tarkin congratulates Krennic, but then uses Rook's defection and security leak under Krennic's command as a pretext to take over control of the project. Jyn tracks her father to an Imperial research facility on the planet Eadu, where Cassian chooses not to kill Galen. When Krennic arrives and threatens to have Galen's main team killed for causing the security leak, Galen confesses he is responsible.
Krennic executes the team nevertheless, and Jyn makes her presence known just as a Rebel bombing raid begins, leaving Galen fatally wounded. Jyn allows her father to die in her arms before she and her group escape in a stolen Imperial cargo shuttle. Jyn proposes a plan to steal the Death Star schematics from Scarif, but with her father and Gerrera dead and the hologram destroyed, the Rebel leadership has no way of verifying her story and cannot agree on a plan. Frustrated at their inaction, Jyn, Cassian, K- 2. SO, and a number of Rebels take the shuttle to raid the data bank themselves. Before they take off, however, they are confronted by Rebel command, who asks them to identify themselves.
Rook answers with "Rogue One" before taking off without permission. Meanwhile, Krennic meets with Darth Vader, seeking his support and an audience with the Emperor, but Vader dismisses his appeal for recognition. As Jyn, Cassian, and K- 2. SO search the data bank for the design plans, the rest of their team set off explosives and commence firing in the nearby landing area in order to distract the resident stormtroopers. Meanwhile, the Rebel fleet learns about the battle from intercepted Imperial transmissions and deploys in support.
Imwe is killed after activating the master switch to allow communication with the Rebel fleet from Rook's shuttle. After informing the Rebel fleet that it must take down the planetary shield to allow transmission of the plans, Rook and the ship are destroyed by a grenade.
Malbus also dies in battle shortly after. Meanwhile, K- 2. SO sacrifices himself to allow Jyn and Cassian to retrieve the data, but they are ambushed by Krennic, who shoots Cassian and pursues and corners Jyn on the roof. Before he can kill her, Cassian, who had survived the blaster wound, shoots and badly wounds Krennic.
Jyn then transmits the schematics to the Rebel command ship. Tarkin arrives on the Death Star and decides to use the superlaser to destroy the compromised base, killing Jyn, Cassian, and Krennic. The Rebel fleet attempts to jump to hyperspace, but are intercepted by Vader's flagship. He boards the command ship and massacres the Rebel troops in pursuit of the plans, only to watch as a blockade runner escapes with them.
Aboard the fleeing ship, Princess Leia Organa declares that the the Rebellion has sent "hope". Official description"'A New Hope' is the story of a boy who grows up in a tranquil home and dreams of joining a war. What if we have the story of a girl who grows up in a war and dreams of returning to the tranquillity of home?"―Gareth Edwards[src]From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," an all- new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
This key event in the Star Warstimeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves. In theaters December.
Continuity"Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet."―The opening crawl of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope[src]Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope depicts the aftermath of the battle to steal the Death Star plans.