![]() ![]() Two, that there is an awareness that at least on the movie front, the Star Wars brand was in deep trouble after the prequel trilogy and needed substantial revitalization Perhaps this is not as inside pool as it might have been, given how much and how enthusiastically Disney has been plastering Star Wars all over its branding and theme parks, but it’s still notable that it was basically the first thing to come out of the mouth of some midwestern dude and not, say, a wannabe screenwriter in Burbank ![]() One, that even in the wilds of Piqua, Ohio, people are aware that Star Wars is a Disney property now. ( NOTE: This review of Rogue One is spoiler-free but I will be allowing the conversation in the comment thread to contain spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the film yet, you might want to skip the comments for now.)Īs I walked out of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story last night, the male half of a couple behind me turned to his partner and said “Disney, not fucking it up again.” Jyn, Saw’s former ward, provides the only chance to retrieve the message.Rogue One, or, the Disneyfication of Star Wars is Complete (and This is a Good Thing) Unfortunately for rebel intelligence leader Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), the pilot has been captured by revolutionary Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), a veteran of the Disney cartoon series, “Clone Wars,” in a stroke of corporate synergy. A defecting Imperial pilot (Riz Ahmed) turns up with a message from Galen revealing a defect in the Death Star and that secret plans exist to exploit it. Years after being separated from him as a child, Jyn is pulled into the orbit of the rebellion, that same band of freedom fighters that will soon welcome a certain farmboy from Tatooine. Her father, Galen (Mads Mikkelsen), is a scientist conscripted by an Imperial officer, played by Ben Mendelsohn with a sense of serrated menace, forced to finish building the planet-destroying battle-station. A Death Star Is Born: Felicity Jones’s Jyn Erso leads a ragtag band of spies in the hunt for the plans to the Empire’s vaunted weapon in ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.’Īt the center of “Rogue One” is Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), who is drifting through the underbelly of the galaxy under an assumed name to hide her parentage. ![]()
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