Are you ready to be spoiled on Rogue One: A Star Wars
Story?
Although some of the character names on Gareth
Edwards' Rogue One have leaked out, Entertainment Weekly has the scoop on their
basic stories.
A delinquent who has been on her own since 15, Jyn
Erso (Felicity Jones) has "a checkered past," says Lucasfilm
president and Rogue One producer Kathleen Kennedy. "She
has been detained [by the Rebellion] and is being given an opportunity to be
useful. And by being useful, it may commute her sentence… She’s a real
survivor. She becomes a kind of Joan of Arc in the story."
Captain Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is a Rebel intelligence officer, tasked with keeping
the volatile Erso (Jones) in line. "He conveys a fair amount of experience
and the reality of what it’s like to do this every day, to try to figure out how to
resist the Empire effectively and intelligently," says Lucasfilm’s chief
of story development Kiri Hart. "It’s not easy."
Although he is no Jedi, Chirrut (pronounced
chi-RUT) lives by the Jedi code. The formidable
warrior "falls into the category of being a warrior monk,"
says Kennedy. He still believes in the Jedi creed even though the old masters
are no longer around to protect the galaxy. "This idea that magical beings
are going to come and save us is going away, and it’s up to normal, everyday
people to take a stand to stop evil from dominating the world," Edwards
says.
Although he doesn’t share his friend Chirrut's
believes, the heavily armored Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen) is devoted to protecting
him at all costs. "He understands Chirrut’s spiritual centeredness, but he
doesn’t necessarily support it," Kennedy says. He goes along with it
because it is what he friend believes in.
Hot-headed and abrasive, Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed) is the
Rebel's squad talented lead pilot. "He flies a lot of cargo, one of his
key jobs," Kennedy says. "And he tends to be a little tense, a little
volatile, but everybody in the group really relies on his technical skills."
"The antithesis of C-3PO" is how Edwards
describes Alan Tudyk's K-2SO. "Kaytoo is a little bit like Chewbacca's
personality in a droid’s body," Edwards adds. "He doesn’t give a
s--- about what you think. He doesn't fully check himself before he
says things and does things. He just speaks the truth." Like Jyn, he’s
also seeking a bit of redemption for past wrongs.
"He’s one of
those people that has insight into you know specific aspects of just how the
universe works," says Hart of Galen Erso, Mads Mikkelsen's character and
Jones' very estranged father. "The circumstances of how the family got to
the state that it’s in is something that we probably don’t want to share right
now," Hart says.
Hoping to avoid a personal meeting with the Emperor's
deadly right-hand man Darth Vader, Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn)
plans to destroy the Rebel threat with his squad of Deathtroopers and fall on
the Emperor's good graces. "The bad guy is a lot more terrifying when he’s
really smart, and really effective," says Knoll. "There is a lot of
palace intrigue going on in the Empire, with people conspiring to move up the
ranks and sabotaging each other. There’s not a lot of loyalty there."
Devoted Star Wars fans will recognize the face and
name of Forest Whitaker's character in Rogue One. A Clone Wars veteran, Saw
Gerrera is precisely that "a battered veteran who leads a band of Rebel
extremists," who was once used by Princess General Leia (Claudia
Gray's Star Wars: Bloodline novel), and who stands "on the fringe of the
Rebel Alliance. Even [they] are a little concerned about him," says
Kennedy.
However, "the Death Star is the event that sort of pulls
everybody [from various Rebel groups] into a place of unity, and prior to that
it’s a little bit more divided. Who are at the different ends of that
spectrum?" posed Kiri Hart, head of story development on the Story Group.
Gerrera's first and only appearance on the Star Wars:
The Clone Wars animated series was on the A War on Two Fronts episode in season
5. In the episode, a much younger Gerrera along with his sister Steela, Anakin
Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano, fought to liberate his planet Onderon
from the Separatists' droid army.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in theaters on December 16.
Source - EW
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