Final trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story focuses on our heroes’ hope
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was rumored to be too dark for casual fans and the Disney movie-going audience, but you’d never know it if this new trailer was your introduction to the movie. If the second official full-length trailer is any indication, there’s plenty of roll-your-eyes hope injected to help soften the (most likely) deaths of everyone involved. After all, these are the characters who steal the Death Star plans that Leia gives to R2D2 in A New Hope, right? And Darth Vader is here to try and stop them, right? With that in mind, it’s hard not to focus on the almost campy, pre-cynical critic tone set by this trailer for the newest Star Wars movie, but maybe I’m alone in thinking the light-heartedness is just a little oversaturated. That said, there’s plenty of Star Wars on display – stormtroopers, Vader, lone man standing in the desert, droids, etc.) – so if you’re already sold on Rogue One there’s more here to dig in to.
As is the case with most late trailers these days, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s new trailer seems to outline the plot beat by beat, so consider yourself warned if you’re trying to avoid spoiler territory. If that’s the kind of territory you like to explore, watch the trailer and check out a new poster for the movie after the jump.
Personally, I was hoping this would be the Star Wars blockbuster in which we get to indulge our grittier, darker expectations (and we may still yet), but this new trailer drips with four quadrant filmmaking cheese. Star Wars has always been aimed at a younger audience, so it shouldn’t be surprising to see Disney try to make this movie look as family friendly as possible right before the holiday season. Your kids need Jyn Erso toys this Christmas. Isn’t that Asian jedi just precious? Look at this ragtag group of friends trying to do good in a galaxy far far away. Shucks! That’s the impression I got after watching the new trailer, which is admittedly a pretty silly reaction. Here’s hoping Disney didn’t take the scalpel to director Gareth Edwards‘ (Monsters, Godzilla) dark Star Wars movie and turn it into something sappy. Maybe I’m just being that cynical critic I mentioned earlier, and Rogue One looks like a gorgeous movie, so I really want to enjoy it. Only time will tell, but we’ll have to wait until December 6, 2016 to give it a watch.
Just in case the trailer didn’t give away too much of the plot, here’s an official plot synopsis for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story:
Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.
From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story stars Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Forest Whitaker, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Alistair Petrie, and Genevieve O’Reilly.
