A new featurette focuses on the creatures of Rogue One with director Gareth Edwards and creature effects supervisor Neal Scanlan.
Today in Rogue One: The first 28 minutes, new clips
Some journalists got a look at the first 28 minutes of Rogue One last night, and USA Today’s Brian Truitt is surprisingly forthcoming about what he saw. The veil of secrecy is so thin this time! (Yes, that’s a spoiler warning.) Underworld rounds up some more reactions.
→ A good portion of the Rogue One cast – Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, and Mads Mikkelsen, plus director Gareth Edwards – will appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live on December 9. Some of The Force Awakens cast did a similar appearance last year, so expect it to go something like this.
→ Even more clips! There’s a new TV spot, a Jyn featurette and a scene at the Yavin base featuring a familiar face.
Cast, director Gareth Edwards talk Rogue One live on Twitter, Facebook
The live Rogue One event on Twitter turned out to be, basically, a live press conference at Lucasfilm. In attendance were director Gareth Edwards and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, and Alan Tudyk.
Here’s the chat:
The new scene:
And the Lucasfilm tour, which was quite honestly the highlight of the whole thing:
They also did a Facebook chat yesterday. The highlight? Gareth Edwards stole the Death Star plans.
Today in Rogue One: New footage, interviews and… jackets?
Rogue One Live starts up shortly, and we’ll have another post when it’s done, but here’s a few other things that have popped up:
→ How much of Rogue One have we seen, anyway? Eleven-ThirtyEight explores.
→ More from Gareth Edwards on George Lucas’ visit to the set and if certain characters will appear
→ Felicity Jones beats up Jimmy Fallon and shows a brand-new clip featuring Jyn, Cassian and K-2SO.
→ Columbia Sportswear will be offering three Rogue One-inspired jackets in a limited edition collection. They’re inspired by Jyn, Cassian, and the deathtrooper armor.
→ Donnie Yen honored at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood; Diego Luna talks abut meeting Darth Vader.
Today in Rogue One: Gareth Edwards talks filmmaking, Easter eggs
With only 15 days to go, The Star Wars Show goes all in on Rogue One. Shockingly, StarWars.com will be live-streaming the premiere red carpet on December 10, but for now Andi has a new interview with Gareth Edwards. (He also pre-reveals a couple of Easter eggs.)
→ A bunch of new stills have been released! Check them out at Comicbook.com. (Yes, that’s one above, and another on the left.)
→ Diego Luna and Felicity Jones were interviewed on SiriusXM, talking about meeting other Star Wars actors, action figures, Rogue One’s benchmark, diversity and their favorite characters. Luna appeared on Good Morning America, while Riz Ahmed talked to Variety.
→ Tony Gilroy is taking home a nice paycheck for his work on Rogue One, The Hollywood Reporter says.
→ Entertainment Weekly’s Anthony Breznican on the U-wing.
Today in Rogue One: Michael Giacchino on his last-minute call to compose
Entertainment Weekly’s Anthony Breznican has the most extensive interview yet with composer Michael Giacchino on Rogue One. Giacchino says the film is “in many ways a really great World War II movie” with “this huge, huge heart.” He reveals that he does use “little moments” of the classic John Williams, but ” the score is 95 percent original.” Read
→ While EW gives us extended chunks of coverage, Empire magazine dribbles out a new photo and a few quotes regarding Gareth Edwards’ being hands-on with filming. But hey, they do have a bunch of character covers.
→ Rogue One is tracking for a big debut – in the range of $120M-150M. If this bears out, it could be the second-biggest December opening – after The Force Awakens.
→ Riz Ahmed profiled by the Wall Street Journal.
→ Spoiler corner: The first twenty minutes of the film was shown on the promotional tour in Mexico, and Making Star Wars has a few (though not extensive) details about the film’s title card.
Today in Rogue One: New featurette reveals PG-13 rating
A new behind-the-scenes Rogue One featurette appeared today. It features director Gareth Edwards, stars Felicity Jones and Diego Luna, plus several new pieces of footage.
It also appears to be the first to reveal that the film is rated PG-13 for “extended sequences of sci-fi violence and action.” Well, it is a war movie! Rogue One is the third PG-13 Star Wars film, after Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens.
→ Elsewhere, Edwards says that Alan Tudyk’s K-2SO is a real scene-stealer.
→ Alexander Freed’s Rogue One novelization is moving up! The hardcover version will now be in stores on December 20, instead of January 3. The eBook release date hasn’t changed – it’ll still be out on December 16, same as the film. (Also, I think this got lost in the shuffle for me, but we did finally see the novelization cover last week. Surprise! It’s basically the poster.)
→ In things you can buy right now, Thinkgeek has two new Rogue One tops.
The catchup: Rogue One commercials, why the movie’s message matters
First off, there are two new Rogue One commercials out this week:
Anyone seen them in the wild yet?
→ CBR’s Brett White on why, after the presidental election. Rogue One matters more than ever. The film’s screenwriters Gary Whitta and Chris Weitz are also showing solidarity for those fearful of a Trump presidency.
→ Over at Entertainment Weekly, there’s a new excerpt from Catalyst featuring Galen and Jyn Erso. Meanwhile, Jennifer Heddle has 6 reasons the novel is essential.
→ Interviews with Riz Ahmed and Gareth Edwards.
Gareth Edwards on reverse engineering Rogue One
It’s holiday movie preview season, and that means that Rogue One director Gareth Edwards is making the rounds. Entertainment Weekly also gets a new photo and some chatter about having to reverse engineer the film from the ending, while USA Today also gets a new pic (above), but another interesting quote, namely “the film doesn’t unfold how you think.” So everyone doesn’t die?
→ Felicity Jones talks Jyn, her favorite Disney princess and bruises in Vanity Fair.
→ Nissan has a new Star Wars themed commercial that ties their Rogue SUV with Rogue One. Naturally, it features Rebel troopers, stormtroopers, K-2SO and more.
→ What if Rogue One starred Jar Jar Binks? Olly Gibbs (and Photoshop) has the answer.
The catchup: Rogue One villains, music and jackets
At USA Today, Director Gareth Edwards talks about the Empire, Darth Vader and how Ben Mendelsohn’s Director Orson Krennic differs from the other high-ranking Imperials we’ve met.
→ Composer Michael Giacchino on the film’s tight schedule, and loving Jyn.
→ Speaking of Jyn, Felicity Jones was on Kimmel last night.
→ Want Jyn and Cassian’s jackets? Check out the versions from Musterbrand. (Which also has some The Force Awakens-inspired cardigans.)
→ Also, there’s a rumor going around that we might get word on ticket sales soon… Perhaps this afternoon? What drops then? Hmm. Nope!