Rumor: Details on Felicity Jones and Mads Mikkelsen’s Star Wars: Rogue One Characters.
The following info is a potential spoiler, so beware!
A recent rumor about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story suggests that Mads Mikkelsen and Felicity Jones will be playing a father and daughter. What’s interesting is the details on Mikkelsen’s character, who is established as being morally-gray but ultimately sympathetic.
The rumor is that Mikkelsen’s character (who is reportedly named “Galen”) is one of the key scientists behind the development of the Geonosian project that would become the Death Star. Galen is apparently the one who got the superlaser to work after the Empire failed to figure it out for years. (Technically explaining why they were able to build a second one so quickly – most of the trouble lied in getting the actual weapon to work as opposed to actually building the thing.) While revered in the Empire, Galen is ultimately horrified by the results of his labors, and he calls upon his daughter (the character Jones is playing) to lead a daring plan that will expose the weakness to the Death Star before it can kill billions of people. Jones was initially conceived as being a mercenary, but this may be different in the final product. (Given her attire in the cast photo – shown below – I get the feeling that mercenary work isn’t off the table for her.)
This rumor lines up with previous statement from Mikkelsen himself about how he would be playing an important character who is not an antagonist (in stark contrast to his roles in Casino Royale and Hannibal). On another note, one of our readers have informed us that some of these details have recently appeared in a Danish tabloid publication. We were not able to find the article (which was most likely one hidden behind a paywall), but it would make sense to have come from a Danish source, given Mikkelsen’s heritage.
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It would be kind of cool if the last shot of this film is showing the Tantive IV intercept the stolen Death Star plans that they retrieve as we’ve never seen a direct tie-in like that to a next episode in any of the episodes.
Doesn’t Vader say something about the plans being “beamed” to the ship? The technical readouts were transmitted via radio (or its equivalent), not physically transfered to the Tantive IV.
He did but that’s what I mean. Showing them doing that.
Exciting movie… Watching someone send a transmission.
How many more times you gonna change your name this year?
They don’t have to stop the film to do it. They could show Felicity doing it and then being killed right after she does by Vader or something.
how many tv shows and movies these days now have focused shots of cell phone screens as people type and send text messages? yeah
I like this idea. There aren’t a lot of people like this, but I’ve definitely heard complaints about the Death Star’s thermal exhaust port being a stupid mistake for The Empire to make. If the creator of the Death Star intentionally left it, that would be a really interesting plot point.
That’s a very interesting theory.
I wonder if a young Lor San Tekka will feature in this movie – perhaps even Mads might play a younger Lor San Tekka as some of the speculation on this week’s Collider Jedi Council suggested.
https://youtu.be/cJOmUW5QyqQ
They look similar enough to make it work, plus both are Scandinavian. I’m sure Swedes and Danes don’t think their accents are all that similar, but most English speakers probably do…
That one guy there sort of resembles Tasu Leech for some reason.
What a fantastic cast. Cant wait to see Donnie Yen, Ip man was a great movie imo.
I’ve read some rumor about him being a jedi, friend of Han Solo in rogue one, but it seems those were false. I still hope it might be true.
this sounds a bit like the people who were a part of the Manhattan project. they were so keen on breaking new ground that they didn’t fully realize until after the fact that they had created something terrible.
“they were so keen on breaking new ground that they didn’t fully realize
until after the fact that they had created something terrible.”
Sounds like Lucas and the prequels
bazinga. 🙂
haha
https://youtu.be/lpuS7_NPv6U
exactly. 🙂
They will have to explain why all of these people suddenly disappear from the Rebel Alliance after they steal the plans.
shouldn’t be too hard, i bet most of them die at the end.
Have them touch down on Alderaan for a celebration.
Not really. It’s not like you see every single member of the Rebellion during the original trilogy so it isn’t far fetched they just aren’t seen.
Either went into hiding or were killed during the mission.
SPOILER ALERT: Mads eats Felicity’s liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
https://youtu.be/UvlBS5CmsNA
LOL to the recent report that Disney is doubling efforts to prevent production rumors.
https://youtu.be/j6o93Gwiarc
Come on, cough up some Kronas!
That’s a very interesting speculation.
So does that mean he’s playing a motion capture insectoid alien creature? Or are they Retoconning episode II and making humans the creators.
If Jones is his daughter, he can’t be an alien. Also, the empire is kinda racist, I doubt they use alien scientists. They say he is the one that finally find the way to make the death star works, not that he projected the death star.
No retcon needed… it sounds like he steps in at a later time in the project just to make sure the superlaser works as the Empire wants.
Hm sounds kinda boring. Need to have a movie kinda like shadows of the empire
The interview article from the Danish tabloid can be seen here: http://ekstrabladet.dk/filmmagasinet/Filmnyheder/mads-mikkelsen-loefter-lidt-af-sloeret-for-sin-star-wars-rolle/5697741 It’s from a danish movie premiere in august 2015, but it’s in Danish so you probably wont understand any of it 🙂 There’s also a interview clip at the top of the article but they dont talk about Star wars in the clip.
Wait…so basically….Ant-Man.
Rogue One is going to tell one of the stories in a movie that I’ve wanted to see on the big screen since the EU blew open the Star Wars mythos back in the 90’s. I’m more excited for it than I was for TFA and for the prequels.