Fans in Mexico Get an Early Taste of New 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Euronews
go to original November 28, 2016

New Rogue One Trailer (The Chiefy Channel)

Star Wars fans were treated to the first twenty minutes of the franchise’s latest movie, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, at a special event in Mexico City.

Set just before the very first 1977 ‘Star Wars’ movie (‘Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’), this new tale unfolds as the Jedis are all but extinct and the threat of the Death Star is looming.

Britain’s Gareth Edwards (‘Monsters’, ‘Godzilla’) directed the movie: “Making something like ‘Star Wars’ is very intimidating, there’s a lot of pressure and so we would always joke with each other and mock each other and had a very good, dry, sarcastic sense of humour, and so we were sort of in a battle together, it felt like the characters in the film, we had a camera and we had the actors and we were fighting this war trying to achieve this impossible task of making a good Star Wars movie,” he says.

The film features a host of new characters including a feisty female lead, rebellion soldier Jyn Erso, played by Felicity Jones. She says she very much enjoyed shooting with Edwards.

...Also starring Mexican actor Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Ben Mendelsohn and Riz Ahmed, the film is expected to achieve between $100 and 150 million on opening weekend, though Disney chiefs don’t think it’ll match ‘The Force Awakens’‘ gross of $2.1 billion.

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ rolls out in theatres around the world in December.

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