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Star Wars Rogue One - rumored plot synopsis? Comparisons to Oppenheimer...

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I just hope Gareth Edwards has figured out how to direct human actors. I'm sure he'll do a great job with the Death Star's motivation, but the people, who knows.
 
Well that sounds freaking great

1-It explains the Death Star construction time discrepancy, as the Geonosian Prototype had to be perfected, thus giving us the 20 years of construction vs the 2 years (?) for the second one

2-The empire guy trying to atone for the horror he created sounds very damn interesting.

I´m in.
 
I just hope Gareth Edwards has figured out how to direct human actors. I'm sure he'll do a great job with the Death Star's motivation, but the people, who knows.

This is the funniest thing I've read all week.

And also the truest.
 
Well that sounds freaking great

1-It explains the Death Star construction time discrepancy, as the Geonosian Prototype had to be perfected, thus giving us the 20 years of construction vs the 2 years (?) for the second one

2-The empire guy trying to atone for the horror he created sounds very damn interesting.

I´m in.
I think ANH to Jedi is 4 years, but your totally right.
 
Have my doubts with this movie because the director made a really giant tease of a film that falls apart on the second viewing and his other, Monsters, I haven't watched.

I honestly have no idea if this will be good, bad, or mediocre. Force Awakens, I immensely enjoyed but I can't stomach any more fan service to the originals (which it will because it takes place in that era). Also, the idea of telling a story that I already know how the ending, it'll be a bit more difficult to craft a really engaging and interesting story.

Put him in the trailers or try to keep it a surprise? How do you write Vader into a movie and his character just not take over the whole story?

Rebels manages to do a good job... he could be hunting down Jedi's, chasing rumors of his son... etc. Emperor brings him in, but he's pulled out because of something more important. He could have a really short cameo.
 
Death Star II is so funny. Like why wouldnt the Emeperor just build another one?

Of course in the trilogy it's lame tho

It took them 20 years to build the first one. The second Death Star is destroyed a few years after the first one and was fully operational. No way they started work on it after the first one blew up. That shit was being constructed already while the first one was being finished.
 
watch Monsters

He's fucking WORSE with actors there than he is on Godzilla.

Monsters is fucking terrible.

Anyway, weird choice of story. This will be the second straight Star Wars movie that features a defection as its plot catalyst if this is true.

It's also sorta weird in that if the guy who improved the plans for the Death Star was directly related to someone in the rebellion, and defected with the help of his Rebel daughter, it's not really a case of espionage, is it? Nobody infiltrated the empire and stole anything.
 
It took them 20 years to build the first one. The second Death Star is destroyed a few years after the first one and was fully operational. No way they started work on it after the first one blew up. That shit was being constructed already while the first one was being finished.

How many death stars does one need?
 
I do hope that there is, at least a little bit, some kind of tie in with Rebels. Even if its just one character in a meeting or something. Its the perfect opportunity.
 
Oppenheimer didn't say that, he quoted it. I was drunk and reading about nukes last night thanks to North Korea.
 
Anyway, weird choice of story. This will be the second straight Star Wars movie that features a defection as its plot catalyst if this is true.

Fourth... ROTS had some jedi turn, I forget his name. AOTC had Dooku turning on the Jedi Council though it happens before the events of the movie so I'm not sure we can count it or not.
 
Have my doubts with this movie because the director made a really giant tease of a film that falls apart on the second viewing and his other, Monsters, I haven't watched.

Monsters is even worse if you hate what he was trying to do with Godzilla.

On the other hand, this is probably way different than those two so who knows? Both those movies had some nice things going on visually to say the least.
 
How many star destroyers does one need? They had the resources and they wanted to expand their reach as far as possible. Seems like overkill to me too but whatever.

The Death Star's only function is to blow up planets. In space combat, it's pretty much useless. It just kinda sits there. It can't fire it's beam at spaceships (or at least has never demonstrated the ability to) and besides that only has defensive weapons. It obviously costs a fortune and takes tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people just to maintain. Unless in the very unlikely scenario you need to blow up more than one planet at the exact same time, I don't see why you'd need two. The empire has never been smart when it comes to making super weapons though.
 
Monsters is even worse if you hate what he was trying to do with Godzilla.

On the other hand, this is probably way different than those two so who knows? Both those movies had some nice things going on visually to say the least.

There's also whatever the braintrust at Lucas Arts is responsible for. I mean the Kevin Fiege effect is working at full effect over at Marvel to churn out good movies.
 
The Death Star's only function is to blow up planets. In space combat, it's pretty much useless. It just kinda sits there. It can't fire it's beam at spaceships (or at least has never demonstrated the ability to) and besides that only has defensive weapons. It obviously costs a fortune and takes tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people just to maintain. Unless in the very unlikely scenario you need to blow up more than one planet at the exact same time, I don't see why you'd need two. The empire has never been smart when it comes to making super weapons though.
Someone forgot Return of the Jedi.
 
Not going to happen if these early rumors are true. According to the visual art books Sydow's character has been a Jedi worshipper and an explorer for most of his life.

Missed opportunity. Good grief.

You insert Tekka, give weight to why he
matters in 7 and has such an important role, as well as knowing Leia back when "she was royalty"

You can also show why he is bad ass at acquiring the unfindable.

Oh well...whatevs.
 
There's also whatever the braintrust at Lucas Arts.

Lucas Arts hasn't been a thing for a very long time now, and even if they were, they do video games, not movies.

Fourth... ROTS had some jedi turn, I forget his name. AOTC had Dooku turning on the Jedi Council though it happens before the events of the movie so I'm not sure we can count it or not.

Neither of those are really "defections" either.
 
I hate the idea of something as big and stupid and fantastical as the Death Star being treated as a serious analogy for nuclear weapons.

Why was Lucasfilms so timid about making Star Wars films before Disney?
Because Lucasfilm was not under orders to make a Star Wars film every year.
 
Well do you want to see a female Bothan?
Hopefully the new canon can find room to fit this in.
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The Death Star's only function is to blow up planets. In space combat, it's pretty much useless. It just kinda sits there. It can't fire it's beam at spaceships (or at least has never demonstrated the ability to) and besides that only has defensive weapons. It obviously costs a fortune and takes tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people just to maintain. Unless in the very unlikely scenario you need to blow up more than one planet at the exact same time, I don't see why you'd need two. The empire has never been smart when it comes to making super weapons though.


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