Rogue One trailer

[Kramodlog]

Looks pretty cool.
It makes sense that the Rebel Alliance wouldn't all be political idealists and freedom fighters but also include some anarchists and, well, terrorists. I dig. Star Wars does lend itself to war stories, and the theft of the Death Star plans are a doozie. Hopefully it will make up for the disappointment that was Force Awakens and actually tell a new story.

This film is about the Rebels and the Death Star. How will it be a new story?

 

[Morrus]

This film is about the Rebels and the Death Star. How will it be a new story?

Because the stealing of the Death Star plans is a story which has not been told before. The very definition of a new story.

 

[Jester David]

This film is about the Rebels and the Death Star. How will it be a new story?

That's what I'm wondering about. It could be a very different movie that goes in a different direction from the other Star Wars films. Or it could just hit the same beats as Empire or Return of the Jedi, maybe telling the standard "tempted by evil" story of Anakin & Luke but with a non-Jedi character.

 

[Joker]

It really makes no difference to me. I'm not planning on seeing it either way. However, I've never heard of a movie re-shooting scenes at this cost so close to release just to add in more action. I'm more inclined to believe that it was about the humor and the director is just saying it's about the action. If the film were so deficient in its action, the re-shoots would have happened sooner, and not very coincidentally right after another DC film bombed due to being too dark.

Reshoots happen all the time. You probably don't hear about them because it's such a frequent occurrence.

 

[Mallus]

This looks amazing. It feels like a fresh take on Star Wars. The trailer does a good job presenting a new look at the Star Wars universe, beyond just quoting the previous films.

Felicity Jones looks well-cast. And though this kind of thing doesn't usually ping my radar, I admit it makes me happy to see Donnie Yen looking like he's gonna whack someone with a kendo stick. It's nice to see a Asian actor in major role in a film series about heroic space cop samurai.

 

[Kramodlog]

That's what I'm wondering about. It could be a very different movie that goes in a different direction from the other Star Wars films. Or it could just hit the same beats as Empire or Return of the Jedi, maybe telling the standard "tempted by evil" story of Anakin & Luke but with a non-Jedi character.

If the main character is force sensitive, all bets of a new story are off. And as long as you stay entwine with the Empire, the Death Star, Siths, Storm Troopers, etc, "new" isn't going to accurate.

 

[MechaPilot]

It really makes no difference to me. I'm not planning on seeing it either way. However, I've never heard of a movie re-shooting scenes at this cost so close to release just to add in more action. I'm more inclined to believe that it was about the humor and the director is just saying it's about the action. If the film were so deficient in its action, the re-shoots would have happened sooner, and not very coincidentally right after another DC film bombed due to being too dark.

Reshoots take time to schedule. You have to get the pertinent actors and staff back, put the sets back up, etc. The reshoots were likely in the works before the critical reception of BvS was determined.

 

[Jester David]

If the main character is force sensitive, all bets of a new story are off. And as long as you stay entwine with the Empire, the Death Star, Siths, Storm Troopers, etc, "new" isn't going to accurate.

It's one thing to tell the story of a young force sensitive figure joining the Rebel Alliance and facing an evil Empire and it's giant spherical planet destroying weapon.
It's another to tell that story with a youth on a desert planet with unknown yet important parents who finds a droid with vital information, an escape from said planet in the Millennium Falcon, a trip to a shady cantina, a wise Small sized mentor that has been around for centuries who instructs in the Force, a shield generator that needs to be deactivated, an X-wing performing a trench run before blowing up a spherical planet destroying superweapon, a fallen Jedi in black with a mask killing an aged mentor, and the like.

You can play with a lot of the iconic Star Wars elements and even touch on familiar plots and tell a new story. They did it with the prequels, they did it with Clone Wars and the follow-up series, and they did it with many of the comics and novels. Heck, they even did a plot with a fallen Jedi, evil Empire, superweapon, and more similarities in Knights of the Old Republic and it worked without being a carbon copy and doing its own thing.
A new story is very possible.
Rogue One is Disney's chance to show they're willing to do more with Star Wars than just milk nostalgia. Or it could just be a mishmash of homages, Easter Eggs, and rip-offs.

 

[Morrus]

If it has anybody with eyes in it, it's not a new story. All Star Wars movies have featured people with eyes.

 

[Tonguez]

This film is about the Rebels and the Death Star. How will it be a new story?

yeah well we do know how it ends (sort of) and the trailer gives us an idea of how it starts,now I'm ready for the ride through the middle, which I am confident has the scope to be refreshingly new while still being closely tied to the arc. The fact that they don't appear to have droids or aliens in the core cast already helps there.
Although if the core premise is infiltrate the enemy base and steal stuff it does seem a bit familiar