Official Synopsis Revealed For STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE Anthology Film

On Sunday during the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim CA, Lucasfilm announced the official plot and showed a quick teaser for STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE.

A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans in the Star Wars Anthology film, Rogue One.

The spinoff is directed by Gareth Edwards (MONSTERS, GODZILLA), with Felicity Jones (THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING) starring as a rebel soldier. “It’s set after Episode III, before IV — and a little more towards IV,” says Edwards.

The panel included Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and the Story Group’s Kiri Hart. “We’re going to be calling them Anthology films.”

The idea for the story of ROGUE ONE came from John Knoll, an Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic. He will executive produce along with Simon Emanuel (The Dark Knight Rises, Fast & Furious 6) and Jason McGatlin (Tintin, War of the Worlds). Kathleen Kennedy and Tony To (Band of Brothers, The Pacific) are on board to produce and John Swartz (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will co-produce.

ROGUE ONE, which may not involve Jedis, is still in pre-production and will eventually be shooting in the UK and around the world.

It was also announced during the panel that the FORCE AWAKENS teaser trailer released on Thursday was viewed on YouTube 88 million times in the first 24 hours.

The first of the stand-alone films, STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE opens December 2016.

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