At the
D23 Expo, Lucasfilm officially announced the casting for Gareth Edwards Star
Wars: Rogue One, the first Star Wars standalone film to come out, and the first Star Wars
film to shift the focus away from the Jedi and Sith and tell a story from a "ground-war perspective". Rogue One will be centered
on a group of resistance fighters united to steal the plans to first Death Star,
and for that Edwards has cast Felicity Jones (The Theory of
Everything), Diego Luna (Milk), Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline), Donnie Yen (Ip Man),
Alan Tudyk (Firefly), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal), Forest Whitaker (The Last King
of Scotland), Jiang Wen (Let The Bullets Fly), and Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler).
"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 essential Star 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
has been attached to the Star Wars universe since the mid-1990's, came up with
the original idea, which will be brought to life with cinematographer Greig
Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty), and special effects supervisor Neil Corbould (Black
Hawk Down), and production designers Neil Lamont (Harry Potter franchise), and
Doug Chiang (Forrest Gump). Other key crew members attached to the project are
stunt coordinator Rob Inch (WWZ, Captain America: First Avengers), creature
effects supervisor Neal Scanlan (Prometheus), and costume designers Dave
Crossman (Harry Potter), and Glyn Dillon (Kingsman: The Secret Service).
Star Wars: Rogue One opens on December 16, 2016.
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