Disney teases 28 minutes of Star Wars spin-off Rogue One

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” hits cinemas on December 14 and stars the likes of Felicity Jones, Diego Luna and Mads Mikkelsen.

Last week, director Gareth Edwards revealed that Star Wars creator George Lucas had visited the movie’s set while it was shooting.

When we started, the studio was like, “Well, how do these movies differ from the saga films?’ One of the early experiments we did was taking real war photography, pictures of Vietnam, conflicts in the Middle East, and World War II”.

She’s moved from the likes of indie fare such as Like Crazy and Oscar-bait dramas like The Theory of Everything (which earned her a best actress nod) to more big-budget franchise fare this year, including Inferno and Rogue One.

Creatures Effect Supervisor Neal Scanlan talks about how unbelievable it was to shoot on a film like Rogue One. This time previous year George Lucas was being inundated with questions regarding his opinion of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was overseen by J.J. Abrams and launched the upcoming batch of Star Wars films.

The latest trailer by Lucas Films provides the clearest look yet at the movie’s back story and origin of the title. In fact, by the “Star Wars” laws of fate, all the events of “Rogue One” only really serve in terms of story to, in turn, bring Luke into the action and kickstart his personal journey of Force-based enlightenment. (Jyn, you’re not Captain Phasma, are you…?) What if one of the Force Awakens characters is retroactively “introduced” in Rogue One?

“We’re on sacred ground here”, Edwards said, pointing to a seat the middle of the theater where he said George Lucas would watch and edit his films. Disneyworld plans to livestream Spaceship Earth’s transformation into the Death Star, so even young Padawans all the way across the universe can enjoy the moment.

Rogue One tells the story of a group of rebel fighters who set out to steal plans for the Death Star from the evil Galactic Empire. One of the cutest additions to the Star Wars canon is Bistan, a gunner on a new starship known as the U-Wing, a gunship and troop transport. Here is what he had to say about it in an interview with Charlie Rose.

So how are the two movies connected to each other when they have more than three decades between them?