Rogue One SPOILERS thread!!!

[Mikey]

The previews look pretty good.

[huedell]

I think it comes down to Abrams and his degree of involvement with the franchise. I'm wondering if because he bailed on the sequels, his ideas were scrapped. Jyn/Rey and a number of the Rogue One/Force Awakens relationships to the original trilogy have a very Lost universal connectivity to them. That's what he does.

Is that "connectivity" any more "Lost" than it is "original trilogy/prequels Star Wars"?

Whatever the case, it's (IMHO) another case of "I would love that---- but general audiences on the whole would probably scoff."

Modern audiences seem to look for things like that "too many interconnected relationships" stuff to revel in their nitpicking.

[phil]

I agree with Hector. I was especially interested in this movie when I learned Felicity Jones was going to be in it. It is also my third favorite Star Wars movie after the original and Empire.

[Hector]

I friggin LOVED the movie...everyone was great, but Felicity Jones was especially great...I adored her...she's my favorite actress right now, lol.

Tarkin CGI was spectacular...scary spectacular...working actors should be very afraid...they are going to be replaced soon. Princess Leia was good too, albeit in a very short one line cameo.

Darth Vader, my man...that was baddarze.

Shout out to Donnie Yen, one of my favorite action stars, but as always, brought humility, soul, and even a little humor to his role.

I actually liked the new score, something fresh and new, but also appreciated the bits of old school and familiar Williams stuff mixed in, good stuff.

And finally, shout out to my boy Diego Luna...orale, buey...estás en Star Wars, te aventastes, carnal, lol.

I liked it better than Awakens.

Rogue One only bows to New Hope and Empire to me, not too shabby...

[hedrap]

I think it comes down to Abrams and his degree of involvement with the franchise. I'm wondering if because he bailed on the sequels, his ideas were scrapped. Jyn/Rey and a number of the Rogue One/Force Awakens relationships to the original trilogy have a very Lost universal connectivity to them. That's what he does.

[phil]

Maybe if they had survived, Jyn and company could have become a commando squad or black ops team for the Rebel Alliance.

[Hedji]

It looks like Jyn and Cass originally made it off the planet in the original teaser shots.

My gut says the switch isn't simply about R1. Jyn was 22 in R1. Force Awakens is 30 years after Jedi and Rey was 19-20. So a 33 y/o Jyn meets Luke right after Jedi and has Rey. Something happens to Jyn, Luke goes full Kenobi and Rey ends up growing up like her mom did...and now they dropped it all. Except Felicity has a sequel contract still in place.

And I keep thinking there's a foreshadow to the kyber stone around Jyn's neck that was deemphasized in the revisions, which will come back to play with Rey.

Wow, my mind is blown with your theory! That actually could've been really cool of Jyn was Rey's mother, given their parallel upbringings. Wonder if we'll ever know the original story treatments. I think in some ways, the revisions to the film make it more interesting to consider the film after viewing it, and wonder what might have been.

[phil]

Felicity Jones joked when she was on Kelly Ripa's show that some people think there is a connection between Jyn and Rey because she and Daisy Ridley have the same hair color and accent.

[hedrap]

I wonder if someday we'll learn that the medals Luke and Han got were called something like the Rogue One Medal of Valor in honor of the sacrifice made by Jyn Erso and the others.

Supposedly the ending was reshot and reworked. There are plenty of stills to confirm this. I would like to know if the original ending had everyone dying.

It looks like Jyn and Cass originally made it off the planet in the original teaser shots.

My gut says the switch isn't simply about R1. Jyn was 22 in R1. Force Awakens is 30 years after Jedi and Rey was 19-20. So a 33 y/o Jyn meets Luke right after Jedi and has Rey. Something happens to Jyn, Luke goes full Kenobi and Rey ends up growing up like her mom did...and now they dropped it all. Except Felicity has a sequel contract still in place.

And I keep thinking there's a foreshadow to the kyber stone around Jyn's neck that was deemphasized in the revisions, which will come back to play with Rey.

[Hector]

I'm inside the movie theater right now...movie starts in about 15 minutes.

IMAX 3D, baby!

I'll be back later in the night to chime in.

Thanks for the posts, truly enjoyed them.

Later!

[Hector]

that actually, is a very logical take on the differences

Yeah, kinda cool...

[phil]

I wonder if someday we'll learn that the medals Luke and Han got were called something like the Rogue One Medal of Valor in honor of the sacrifice made by Jyn Erso and the others.

Supposedly the ending was reshot and reworked. There are plenty of stills to confirm this. I would like to know if the original ending had everyone dying.

[Nostalgiabuff]

This video talks a bit about different Darth Vader suits...mostly battle wormed vs shiny and presentable...

http://screenrant.com/darth-vader-co...ged-rogue-one/

that actually, is a very logical take on the differences

[Nostalgiabuff]

I think collectors are the major market for the action figures at this point, not kids so much

[drquest]

I'm curious how the ending of the movie might effect sales of the action figures to kids. Will kids want figures of characters that died? Granted they can play with them and use their imagination any way they want. I don't know any kids but I'm curious to know how they react and play with the toys.

I did consider the idea that the characters could be killed off but only expected one or two of them to die. I figured Disney would want to keep the option open for the characters to appear in books, comic books etc. I do think the ending of the movie was appropriate and have to give credit to the filmakers and Disney for going in that direction.

I agree... We all walked out saying, "they all died".... Not a lot of movies like that anymore....

Now what I'm super curious about, is what the original ending looked like. There's enough stuff in the trailers than just flat out wasn't in the movie at all and that makes me very curious...