Rumor: Will Rogue One’s First Teaser Get Attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
With a week to go before the release of the film, it’s unsurprising that all the media’s focus on that Star Wars franchise boils down to The Force Awakens. But what if some major news about next year’s Star Wars movie is being suppressed? That’s what a current rumor implies about the forthcoming Anthology film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story!
This rumor comes from Jordan Maison, the editor-in-chief of Cinelinx.
No surprise really, but while all eyes are on #TheForceAwakens, a #StarWars #RogueOne trailer is done and making the rounds at LFL…
— Jordan Maison (@JordanMaison) December 11, 2015
We also got two quotes from Maison when we asked him about this news. When asked about the marketing plan for the movie, he told us this:
Heard marketing has been working on stuff for R1 for a month or so now.
When asked if RO’s teaser was planned to be attached to TFA, he added the following:
I heard that would be the case a few MONTHS ago actually, but not sure if that’s still the plan.
Given that Maison has had a good track record with Star Wars information, the odds that Rogue One‘s teaser may be attached to The Force Awakens (or that it may come out soon afterward) are pretty good. In any case, The Force Awakens is going to be jam-packed with exciting trailers for next year’s high-profile movies, including Star Trek Beyond, X-Men: Apocalypse, Captain America: Civil War, and possibly Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice. It seems as though watching all the previews will be nearly as exciting as seeing the movie itself!
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im not really interested in these anthology films , some things should be left to our imagination. . probably get the dvdownray anyway saying that..
Got you, yet maybe Rogue One doesn’t sound too bad like this, defo not hot on the idea of early Han Solo story though. Surprised they are going down that one
I hope we see some cool new droid models! Maybe even R4-M9 and R2-Q2 being a part of the mission or a messenger as they are lucky or intelligent enough to stay in good shape all the way up till The Force Awakens!
Chopper bites it in this one.
Cool. I hope so. Also there should be post credits scenes leading into episode 8
no there shouldn’t and J.J. already said there would not be one.
jj has said things in the past like khan not being in into darkness. directly quote a director if they’re a reliable source. clearly he is not, but only because of the interest of preserving the sense of wonder and surprise for the audience. he’s basically trying to make the movie have everything he’d want to see as a fan if it weren’t him directing it.
not saying there’s definitely scenes at the end of TFA. just saying you shouldn’t use JJ as a citeable source honestly. Take everything he says with a margarita cuz there’s a whole lotta salt to down.
Yeah, but lying that there won’t be a post-credit scene means that people will leave before it will show up.
Maybe, but in this day and age you know there’ll be at least one person in each showing around the nation/world with their iphone out recording it when it happens. It’ll be online before the end of the night.
And also people always leave at the end because of that reason. I watched Avengers, Days of Future Past and Ultron opening nights and people left right after. And if its a trailer, yeah it’ll definitnely be online for sure and in good quality by the studio on Friday I’m sure. Its a minute detail that I can’t really see being a major issue for anyone. Why complain about whether or not there’s an end credit scene. We should be reveling in the fact that star wars is opening in 6 days and 3 hours :O The Force is almost ready to get out of bed.
Regardless of what is and isn’t in the movie, I’m sitting through all of the credits. I just have to soak in the entire experience.
No other Star Wars film has one. For that reason alone I will take JJ at his word here, which was pretty firm: https://youtu.be/8cZUHQTBGBE?t=2117
Not saying it can’t/shouldn’t be debated that “all the scenes” don’t include Episode 8/RO teasers. 🙂 But on that debate I say highly unlikely.
Agreed. This is very “from a certain point of view”. I think this is clever wordplay by JJ. “All the scenes are in the movie” (from TFA) certainly doesn’t rule out a RO scene or trailer.
Khan he said he later regretted, plus he was just trying to protect it as a secret.
He said a lot of things do u believe all of them
on this, yes. he said it with such sincerity. He is a Star Wars fan. a post credits scene is not star Wars. Just because Marvel does it, doesn’t mean anyone else should.
Star Wars doesn’t need to jump on that Marvel bandwagon and break with tradition.
it would be a mistake for them not to, in one form or another.
Not enough clues yet? Check out the latest trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4fA-0l8Cp8
Fake trailer
legit footage
LMAO. Alex Luthor is a fan made trailer maker.
He’s awesome though.
That is one awesome mix of trailers… I laughed at even the commercial inclusion. It fit 😛
might not skip the ads for a change before TFA
The Force Awakens cast is amazing don’t get me wrong, but something about the Rouge One cast has me a tad more excited to see how it’ll turn out.
I feel like there’s a lot more exciting talent in Rogue One, though The Force Awakens is using more unknowns.
Exactly. It’s crazy how Star Wars can really make you unknown to known globally and the film hasn’t even dropped yet, lol
Probably since it’s a one-off and we have no idea who will live or die beforehand unlike the moronic idea they have with TFA announcing who’s going to be in VIII before VII is even in theaters.
Yeah, because if you heard that Alec Guinness would be in ESB and RotJ, you also would think he’d survive Star Wars..
I didn’t back in 1979 when I read it in Bantha Tracks and the only people that did were the same ones who told me about 15 years back that Sidious was a clone of Palpatine and that Snoke is Plagueis today. I’m sure they thought the Holocaust was a ruse conducted by the media too.
True. But not everyone in Episode 8 is going to be a force ghost.
I still want a Kenobi movie with Ewan McGregor and Joel Edgerton and it will explain things more about the strife between them.
Possibly the third spinoff which is still unannounced and would be in the same time period as Rogue One and Han Solo while still being different enough from each. Ewan would do it but not sure about Edgerton.
Edgerton seemed interested, He was asked about it at event and seemed intrigued.
Link? It seems like he’s becoming big time now and a few of the other PT actors were kind of resentful for their small parts like Panaka and Ric Olie.
http://www.iamrogue.com/news/movie-news/item/12200-joel-edgerton-says-cool-stuff-about-returning-to-star-wars-for-obi-wan-spinoff.html
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/10/11/joel-edgerton-wants-to-go-back-to-the-lars-homestead-in-a-star-wars-movie
Interesting if he is still onboard and his schedule is open as that interview is about a year old now, Piesse should come back too but I haven’t seen much of her in anything major lately.
I bet they are going to attach the Rogue One trailer to TFA once it’s been in theatres for a while and ticket sales are declining
I wouldn’t put that past Disney… if TFA is good, I’ll be seeing it plenty of times anyway.
‘Tis going to be an awesome time watching TFA and these new trailers in the theater.
I like the idea of a low-key Star Wars film which really hasn’t been done since the original. Like the EU, I’m not looking for some summer blockbuster epic that dwarves the saga but something that very nicely compliments it. When all’s said and done I hope this is the definitive bridge between III and IV far as the state of the galaxy and rise of the rebellion.
Still hard to believe, another SW a year from now. How general public discern this movie is not the continuation of TFA.
Yeah, First time in cinematic history that a Star Wars film has come out two consecutive years in a row.
3 years in a row with Episode 8 lol.. Its amazing..actually will run to 6. Yikes. Star Wars every year is still too good to be true.
Five if you include the spinoffs.
with all of those trailers, people will get their money’s worth before the film even starts… i don’t even like to refer to this as a movie anymore, it’s a spiritual experience
That’s why I take it so personally when people bash any of the movies, prequels included. It’s like stabbing me, and I know I shouldn’t see it that way. Very emotional, just because something doesn’t mean anything to you or you think it’s terrible, doesn’t mean someone else may have an opposite pov. Doesn’t mean either people are stupid, they just see and feel things differently.
Exactly. Even people who love AotC deserve a LITTLE respect.
The best thing AOTC gave to the series, albeit overwhelmed by the bad stuff, is Anakin’s commentary on ‘Jedi compassion vs. love’ on the refugee ship. I always thought that was a great theme, a contradiction in the Jedi dogma, that wasn’t explored.
Of course, he goes full creep mode right after…ugh.
Don’t take it personally! If people don’t agree with you, like all things in life, then figure out something you can agree on, or if that doesn’t work change the subject I guess. 🙂
And if you’re talking prequels, I find it hard to find people wiling to crap on the pod racing sequence, jinn/kenobi/maul fight, and generally most of revenge of the sith if you confront them with scenes.
I am not a fan of episode 2, but even then I explain to people that the meat of that film is a murder mystery, and Obi-Wan is (less effective) Columbo. And that tends to give people a pause if nothing else.
But again man, who cares what me or other people think about any of this. Ultimately this movie will be whatever you and the people you want to share it with take away from it, like any other movie. 🙂
Your focus determines your reality.
“What’s in there?” “Only what you take with you.”
I’m glad I’m not going to a midnight session (getting too old!). I remember going to Phantom Menace for the midnight session, and it was 12:45am before the movie started. So may ads and previews!!!
i’m going to a 70mm omnimax theatre without any previews.. i’m a little bummed because the previews will get people so anxious for the film to start.. but oh well. we’re all going on a spiritual journey when the film starts so no one really loses
The movie will be just under a year away. I have been saying this for months that the trailer(teaser) would be with TFA
Am I the only one who’s annoyed that they are now calling them “a Star Wars story” instead of “Star Wars Anthology”?
Anthology harkens back to Science Fiction’s inception: Buck Rogers, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, etc.
The “story” moniker sounds more childish like “Toy Story”…
Sorry for the bitching, but I just had to get it off of my chest….
Completely agree!
If the title of the film was something like Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, regular filmgoers would be confused and think it was the sequel to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
By putting “Rogue One” first, they establish it as a separate film. “Rogue One: Star Wars Anthology” makes no sense as a title for a film, because “anthology” means “series”. “Rogue One — A Star Wars Story” communicates exactly what they need it to: that it is set in the Star Wars universe but not the same as Star Wars Episode VIII.
You got it right. Anthology doesn’t work for what they’re doing here. A Star Wars story is much more fitting. A Star Wars Anthology Nextflix show would be very interesting, and apart of me thinks thats why they made this switch. I think we get a Star Wars anthology series.
Both you and emkkahn have a good point. I’m torn between your two outlooks.
Anthology is a cooler word though. Every time I hear it I think of my childhood watching “The Beatles Anthology” docu-series with my family. I got good vibes from the word.
Though you’re right, “a Star Wars story” is more clear.
None of this touches the IMPORTANT issue that is, I’m sure, on everyone’s heart:
WILL THERE BE AN OPENING CRAWL?
On one hand, I kind of get annoyed that every. single. star wars game has an overlong crawl. I be like: “an opening crawl?? come on, YOU’RE A GAME, chill, just get me to the part where I button-mash.”
Though the crawl works for actual episodic movies.
Rogue One, however, is in the neutral zone.
Does it deserve The Crawl? And if so, what will be the header? I can’t really imagine the opening crawl going:
ROGUE ONE
A STAR WARS STORY
just doesn’t look right, know what I mean?
Actually thinking about this, I realize that having the announcer give a spoken sum-up in TCW was a good move, having the speed and casualness of TV while keeping the basic info exposition — even if the announcer was annoying as hell, it was a smart compromise.
Both you and emkkahn have a good point. I’m torn between your two outlooks.
Anthology is a cooler word though. Every time I hear it I think of my childhood watching “The Beatles Anthology” docu-series with my family. I got good vibes from the word.
Though you’re right, “a Star Wars story” is more clear.
None of this touches the IMPORTANT issue that is, I’m sure, on everyone’s heart:
WILL THERE BE AN OPENING CRAWL?
On one hand, I kind of get annoyed that every. single. star wars game has an overlong crawl. I be like: “an opening crawl?? come on, YOU’RE A GAME, chill, just get me to the part where I button-mash.”
Though the crawl works for actual episodic movies.
Rogue One, however, is in the neutral zone.
Does it deserve The Crawl? And if so, what will be the header? I can’t really imagine the opening crawl going:
ROGUE ONE
A STAR WARS STORY
just doesn’t look right, know what I mean?
Actually thinking about this, I realize that having the announcer give a spoken sum-up in TCW was a good move, having the speed and casualness of TV while keeping the basic info exposition — even if the announcer was annoying as hell, it was a smart compromise.
that’s why it has no episode number… TFA is tchnically episode VII. ‘a star wars story’ is just dumbed down.
TFA is being marketed without “Episode VII” in the title, though.
still when You walk in the theatre and see the opening crawl you’ll get the episode number… hopefully
Because People are too stupid to understand what Anthology means…
https://i.imgur.com/QvJSFpy.jpg
Posted by a guy that works at one of the theaters. Encrypted lockbox. Keys go out 5 minutes before “release”.
GET HYPE! IT’S REAL!
No Rogue One
Previews<<<<<<<<<<TFA
When I brought my ticket the guy who served me said it will be shown after the credits and I didn’t even bother to ask the question he just told me to make sure I didn’t leave straight away
That’s really interesting! I thought JJ said “no post-credits” scene. Unless your cinema is doing it differently, maybe?
JJ said no post credit tied to film. Every scene is in the film. A trailer for another sw movie would not be lying 😉
I like that this film could be what a lot pictured the PT to be about in that it’s a direct tie to IV, Has the real start of the Rebellion, and Vader is in his prime. We only got to see the start of The Empire in III but we never really got to see the transistional period where they subjegated the galaxy to the point where their rule was absolute in the OT.
I think Solo will be more about the seedy underworld much like the TV show they were going to mke or 1313.
These spinoffs could be great long as they don’t repeat themselves and do a new genre with each one.
reading throug books I saw that the empire that there was no transitional period after III. Th empire conquered the whole galaxy with that coup seen in ROTS, and the rebellion’s origins are being told partly in star wars: rebels. Rogue One instead would tie chronologically episode IV to rebels. I just hope that they’ll include in rebels hints to rogue one.
Yeah, from what I read Palpatine used the Clone Wars to establish all the bases and slowly bleed local authorities control to the imperial representatives – kind of like the increasing power of the Federal gov’t over the States during and after WWII.
Great analogy.
I guess I meant in terms of the PT technology transistion to the ones in the OT. I think Rebels has done a good job of that where it’s more classic than III but still not quite IV yet I still would like to see it on the big screen.
Would be less lazy than rehashing all the old models too from the 70’s and 80’s. They could use a few but I’d make them slightly different.
Ooohh…. okay. Well… some of the tecnological transition is covered by the books. The idea is that by the time of rogue one you’ve got basicly the same tech depicted in ANH
It was in the old EU as well but I think people would still like to see it onscreen somewhere. I’m sure they will too if only to be toyetic.
And having Vader back in action directly following his……state in TFA should be interesting. If not confusing to some people/children.
I never bought Christensen as Vader even in the suit, I know he was just getting used to it then but I hope they use a real bodybuilder this time who’s good at mimicking Prowse’s body language.
In OT we didn’t see much of cool competent officer of the Empire, like Genral Veers. Assuming Ben Mendelsohn casted as Moff or General, we may finally see well respected, cold blooded competent Empire officer.
The ones we did see were bad ass though.
The fact we remember Veers and Piett is indicative how perfect those guys got their roles. Piett’s face when he walks into Vader’s meditation chamber…amazing.
That scene showed Piett’s inner turmoil, and fear. I would like to have more of that kind of scene.
and the relief he displays after Vader didn’t choke him out as the Falcon escaped because of Artoo’s hyperdrive fix…
That was another subtle but memorable one. Besides, the actor played Piett also played Soviet High ranking Officer in the Eastwood movie Firefox in 1980.
Oh man, sheer terror in his face when that happened.
The trailers are…Captain America, Warcraft, Independence Day Resurgence, Batman V Superman, Deadpool etc
Trailers vary per location, my friend.
I heard Apocalyps and Star Trek too.
Wait… he said “a #StarWars #RogueOne trailer is done and making the rounds at LFL…”
Ummm where exactly?