Frustrated at their inaction, Jyn's group lead a small squad of Rebel volunteers to raid the databank. Jyn proposes a plan to steal the Death Star schematics using the Rebel fleet but fails to gain approval from the Alliance Council, who feel victory against the Empire is now impossible. Krennic seeks his support for an audience with the Emperor, but Vader instead Force-chokes him and orders him to ensure no further breaches occur. Krennic is summoned by Darth Vader to answer for the Death Star's attack on Jedha. Galen is mortally wounded by the bombers and dies in Jyn's arms, before she escapes with her group on board a stolen Imperial cargo shuttle. Jyn makes her presence known moments before Rebel bombers attack the facility. Rook leads the group to Galen's Imperial research facility on the planet Eadu, where Cassian chooses not to kill Galen. Grand Moff Tarkin congratulates Krennic before using Rook's defection and security leak as a pretext to take control of the project. Jyn and her group take Rook and flee the moon, but Gerrera remains to die with the city. On the Death Star, Krennic orders a low-powered test shot which destroys Jedha's capital. Gerrera shows her the message, in which Galen reveals he has secretly built a vulnerability into the Death Star and directs them to retrieve the schematics from an Imperial data bank on the planet Scarif. With the aid of blind spiritual warrior Chirrut Îmwe and his mercenary friend Baze Malbus, Jyn makes contact with Gerrera, who has been holding Rook captive. Jyn, Cassian, and reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO travel to Jedha, where the Empire is removing kyber crystals from the holy city to power the Death Star Gerrera and his partisans are engaged in an armed insurgency against them. Cassian is covertly ordered to kill Galen rather than extract him. Jyn is freed from an Imperial labor camp at Wobani and is brought to the Rebel leader Mon Mothma, who convinces her to find and rescue Galen so the Alliance can learn more about the Death Star. Rebel Alliance intelligence officer Cassian Andor learns of Rook's defection and the Death Star from an informant. Galen's wife, Lyra, is killed in the confrontation while their daughter, Jyn, escapes and is rescued by rebel extremist Saw Gerrera.įifteen years later, cargo pilot Bodhi Rook defects from the Empire, taking a holographic message recorded by Galen to Gerrera on the desert moon Jedha. Research scientist Galen Erso and his family are in hiding on the planet Lah'mu when Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic arrives to press him into completing the Death Star, a space station-based superweapon capable of destroying entire planets.
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Andor, a spin-off television series starring Luna, is set to debut on Disney+ in 2022. It received two Academy Award nominations for Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects. It grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the 20th-highest-grossing film of all time and the second-highest-grossing film of 2016 during its theatrical run. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its acting, story, visuals, musical score, and dark tone, but criticism for its pacing, characters, and digital recreations of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher. Rogue One premiered in Los Angeles on December 10, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 16. With an estimated production budget of at least $220 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. The film then went through extensive reshoots in mid-2016. Principal photography on the film began at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, in early August 2015 and wrapped in February 2016.
īased on an idea first pitched by Knoll ten years before it entered development, the film was made to be different in tone and style from the traditional Star Wars films, omitting the customary opening crawl and transitional screen wipes. The film also details the Rebel Alliance's first effective victory against the Empire, first referenced in A New Hope 's opening crawl.
Set a week before A New Hope, the plot follows a group of rebels who band together to steal plans of the Death Star, the ultimate weapon of the Galactic Empire. The main cast consists of Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen, and Forest Whitaker. It is the first installment of the Star Wars anthology series and an immediate prequel to Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy is from a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (or simply Rogue One) is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards.