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Rogue One is the title of the first Star Wars stand-alone movie. Johnson is widely considered one of cinema’s most gifted young filmmakers. Watch Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie trailer and book Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tickets online. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY. 2 Hours 13 Min The Rebellion makes a risky move to steal the plans to the Death Star. Name * Email * Comment *. Village Cinema 15 - Meridian; MOVIES. From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,' an all-new epic adventure. Play Video. Don't Play. Trailer: Underworld: Blood Wars. Trailer: Underworld: Blood Wars. Vampire death dealer, Selene, fights to end the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. Trailer: Mad Sheila Virgin Road. Play Video. Don't Play. Trailer: Rogue One - A Star Wars Story. Rebels set out on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star. Rogue One carries no . Y'avin a good time yet? If this looks familiar to your weary old, prequel- depressed Star Wars eyes, it should. We're in the landing bay of the rebel base on the moon of Yavin IV. We were last here in the original 1. Star Wars as this was the site of the final assault on the Death Star. Of course, the Empire's sinister armoured space station isn't here yet, it's presently elsewhere, under the watchful eye of Governor Tarkin, who we're presuming is in the film, but of whom there has yet been no glimpse. Being frogmarched across the bay is Jyn Erso, played by Felicity Jones. She is, by all accounts, a bad, bad girl, and she's been recruited by the Rebel Alliance for a big, big task. Welcome to the Rebel Alliance, Jyn Erso, you're our kind of people. In the olden days of the Star Wars saga those spiffy Death Star generals used to refer to . In this case, a kid who has been on her own since she was 1. Meet the dashing sidekick .. His name we don't know yet, but meet the dashing sidekick played by Diego Luna. Perhaps the most brilliant thing about the post- Lucas. Star War, Episode VII: The Force Awakens brought us in Daisy Ridley's Rey a proper female lead. Which is not to deny Princess Leia was anything less than awesome, but prior to that there was a tendency for men to lead the Star Wars narrative. In Rogue One we have another strong female lead and, curiously, a guy who has a wee echo of Oscar Isaac playing another of those broody, handsome, rebel guy- types. The time for our attack has come .. Now here's a big reveal for Star Wars fans: the supreme commander of the Rebel Alliance, Mon Mothma. In the original Star Wars story cycle we didn't meet her until the third story, Return of the Jedi. Rogue One places her now on Yavin IV around the time of the original film (or at least just prior to it). It's a fantastic piece of story continuity and a genuinely unexpected one - by this time, most of the Star Wars cognoscenti were expecting to see either Grand Moff Tarkin or Darth Vader. This scene plays with a noticeable echo of an earlier (actually later) one, with words to the effect of: the Empire has made a critical error, and the time for our attack has come. Star Destroyers and (6) stormtroopers and (7) Death Stars, oh my! There it is: a sequence of Star Wars money shots to flutter the hearts of any diehard Star Wars fan. The majestic and terrifying Star Destroyers, the main line of the Imperial fleet back in 1. Star Wars, the white- armoured Imperial stormtroopers, and, of course, the star of the film, the formidable and infamous Death Star. Here we see the funnel- shaped superweapon of the station - the planet- destroying laser - being fitted into its final position before the station is sent off to blow up planets like a schoolyard bully demanding lunch money. These are stirring images and make no mistake, every element in the trailer is here for a reason. These three moments anchor us back in 1. Star Wars. 8. Game on! And herewith is the heart of the film's plot: Jyn Erso and As Yet Unnamed Hot Guy must infiltrate the Empire and retrieve the data plans for the Death Star in the hope that the Rebel Alliance can find a weakness. Hands up who had that Kenner action figure as a kid? He also appears to be played by Ben Mendelsohn. First awesome Aussie actor in a Star Wars lead role and he's killing people. Our second guy is played by Forest Whitaker, and he's full of Jedi- like wisdom. Could this be this film's answer to the Yoda/Maz Kanata trope, guiding, prodding and teaching the young heroes. And last guy is badass: it's Donnie Yen wielding a polearm better than most Jedi wield their lightsabers. Oh, and this shuttle. Which is a little perplexing, actually. The Imperial shuttle of the original Star Wars era was the Lambda class shuttle, which we met several times, but most noticeably when one carried Darth Vader to the Death Star Mark II in Return of the Jedi and a slightly more battered one took the Rebel strike team down to the planet Endor. This shuttle is actually more in the style of Kylo Ren's shuttle from The Force Awakens, though his was (of course) jet black - because he's a bad guy, geddit? It also doesn't appear to be holding up well against laser fire. I have a bad feeling .... First, the little red chappies are known as the Emperor's Royal Guard, the personal bodyguards of Emperor Palpatine (Ian Mc. Diarmid). Which means he must be lurking about here somewhere. The figure in the foreground is your typical black- cloaked type but before everyone goes all . Which is not to say we're not going to get Darth Vader in Rogue One - smart money says we will - it just means that it's unlikely they blew that reveal in the first trailer. They're like giant, mechanical dogs. From a military engineering standpoint they verge on the ridiculous, but golly they're awesome, particularly during epic ground battles and planetary evacuations. The Force Awakens may have been a commercial colossus but there was always something frighteningly potent about Rogue One and its ability to not merely copy the 1. Star Wars but actually return us to the moment, or one close to it. This glimpse will have fans screaming for joy. Or is there a clue in the title: does Jyn Erso go rogue on the Rebel Alliance? Or are we already over- thinking a film which isn't released until Christmas? Darth Vader, surely, and more detail about that sinister black- cloaked demi- Vader we glimpsed in the trailer. And Grand Moff Tarkin? Who knows, maybe even a teen- aged Princess Leia? So badass it's goodass. And it might be as brilliant, perhaps even more brilliant.
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