Even More Rogue One Photos from Entertainment Weekly!
Entertainment Weekly decided to wrap up their coverage on Rogue One this week with yet another set of photos from the production. Check them out…
The previous story on Mon Mothma was supposed to be the last one of EW’s coverage on Rogue One from this week. But because of the great interest and fan reactions around the web, Anthony Breznican and company decided to share even more with all of us:
EW’s never done this before, but you guys have been so cool about the Rogue One stories, we asked Lucasfilm to let us run some bonus images.
— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) June 24, 2016
So, coming up…A few Rogue One pics that *didn’t* make the print story. Thanks for sharing that Spielberg piece & all the others this week.
— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) June 24, 2016
From EW:
The movie will feature never-before-seen vehicles, like the fang-toothed TIE Strikers (featured on our cover image), as well as some sinister new classes of Stormtroopers — like the black-masked Deathtrooper pictured here. Storywise, what became of these designs during later years of the galactic conflict? Were they experimental models? Will the Rebel victory be so complete that the Empire never uses them again?
This shot of Donnie Yen’s blind warrior-monk, Chirrut Imwe, gives us a good look at a new kind of weapon on his back. In the trailer, we see him face down a Stormtrooper using only a wooden staff. (No laser sword for him!) But the device slung on his back looks unusually ornamental for a mere blaster.
Here we see Diego Luna’s Capt. Cassian Andor in the beach battle alongside some fellow Rebel soldiers. Director Gareth Edwards says there are at least two background creatures who fight with the squad, but they aren’t major characters.
While Chirrut puts his faith in the Force, Jiang Wen’s hard-bitten soldier, Baze Malbus, clearly believes more in the force of firepower. Here we see him taking up position beside a crashed X-wing fighter, toting a blaster that’s linked up to a massive power pack on his back.
The filmmakers say he’s [Luna’s character] the reliable, stable one who counters her loose-cannon tendencies, sort of Murtaugh to her Riggs. No doubt Jyn and Cassian form a trust and a friendship, but does that always have to mean romance?
This is a behind-the-scenes shot, showing Baze, Chirrut, and a squad of Rebel fighters storming the beach. The helicopter camera is a surprising element, however, because it’s not typically the kind of shot we’ve seen before in a Star Wars film, which tend to be more classically composed.
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For more on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands today.
Special thanks to Anthony Breznican and EW for the fantastic coverage. We needed that.
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Diego Luna’s is literally dressed as a colonial viper pilot from old school Battlestar Galactica.
And that’s just fine with me.
Frakin’ awesome!
It only took me two microns to upvote that comment.
holy shit, yeah, he certainly is. so very 70’s, it’s perfect 🙂
I think it looks much more SW the BG. Anyways, BG just ripped off tons of the SW aesthetic.
It’s not a criticism. I think the costume looks great (in fact I was contemplating recreating it for Celebration next year). It is uncannily similar to the BSG uniforms, though. It also looks a lot like Han’s outfit in TFA — same cut of pants & shirt.
And I want a better look at the holster – the gunbelt is more like a Jedi PT belt, but from what I can see there, I wouldn’t be surprised if the holster itself is also from the Han TFA costume.
me too. I didn’t take it as a criticism, and I agree for the most part.
Some excellent shots here.
Here comes Crixx saying, nothing new here, move along.
I now this ins’t related to the the topic, but Why do we have to have ads there is a picture of a starving dog
Ads are different for everyone. I have meet the Korean woman of your dreams on my screen right now.
Stay away from my Korean woman! 🙂
My brand new Korean wife finds those ads terribly offensive.
Aren’t ads geared towards your browsing history?
…um.
Shhh…
Adblock + chrome =bye bye most of the ads.
are there more pictures coming?
Love what we’ve seen so far.
I love that this is… not a part of the saga. I hope this does well because I want more side stories that have nothing to do with the main heroes. To explore the wider Star Wars universe.
Me too, brother. And no worries. I have this hunch that the movie is going to do extremely well.
Loving the stills. The only thing that makes me a little nervous about this film is yesterday’s talk about how much shaky-cam is being used. I. Fucking. HATE. Shaky-cam. God how I hate shaky-cam.
They’ll probably only use that for some of the action sequences. I really want to see a cool tracking shot though in this film like we saw in Gane of Thrones Battle of the Bastards
Even still I’d rather not…however given just how much specific press they gave to it in the EW article, I suddenly have some grave concerns about what the film is going to look like.
I wouldn’t worry too much.
Nooo, I too hate frigging shaky cam! And Found footage! Damn! This might be a turn-off for me…
+1
Its not whether its used.
Its how its used. We’ll have to wait until December to know.
Mmm…nope, I’m pretty sure I loathe shaky-cam.
The weapon on Chirrut Imwe’s back looks an awful lot like a Lasan bo-rifle…
I guess we’ll have to wait to see the U-wing and the TIE striker?
Tie striker is on the cover of the EW issue. But these seem to be on-set photos, not CGI shots. 20 days left till the likely full Trailer release 🙂
I noticed that, and I hoped for it… dammit 20 days!
It appears so.
I am really pumped for this! Every thing I see makes me more excited.
I haven’t felt this kind of excitement since……….last July
I also HATE shaking Fucking cam
ITS A FUCKING WAR FILM CUNT BITCH
Was that really necessary?
Was that really necessary??
Shaky-cam? Seriously?
I sh** you not, if they lay a bunch of shaky-cam crap on us, I’ll get up and walk out of the damned theater, Star Wars or not. Not only does that idiocy give me motion sickness, but it’s also the mark of lazy, half-assed filmmakers who can’t be bothered to create tension using traditional storytelling methods. “Screw it, let’s just fake some onscreen tension by shaking the camera around.”
Even in battle scenes, it’s a cheap cop-out and it looks like garbage.
I REALLY hope the shaky-cam rumors are just rumors…
A moderator having a bitch? You should be revoked. This is a war film, emotions are high…they want the audience to feel immersed in what’s happening and what better way to display the intensity and seriousness of the battle scene than some shaky cam action? I mean really, it’s not like it’s going to take up the majority of the film (obviously “ahem” trailer) but it could positively add to that grittiness that they are going for in this movie. Personally, I can’t wait to see this new style of filming in a SW setting.
(Don’t ban me haha)
BAN HIM!
Jokes aside… shaky cam never bothers me unless it literally starts making the action hard to follow. That’s when you’ve gone to far.
War films = shaky-cam? Not until relatively recently. Plenty of classic war flicks were made long before “shake the camera to simulate tension” became the lazy cinematographer’s default style.
Any fool can jiggle a camera around. A solid script, brought to life by a true actors’ director and a top-notch editor can create genuine tension in a way that the shaky-cam gimmick can’t even begin to touch.
It’s junk filmmaking and always has been.
The real issue for me is that it seems to make directors and cinematographers think they are excused from properly conveying a sense of geography and relative location to a given sequence. Just cut together a bunch of seemingly unrelated jittery, way to close up shots of actors doing…stuff and call it a fight scene.
Did you see Saving Private Ryan?
To be fair, yes, it was successfully used in a film. Twenty years ago. The real problem is that ever since then shaky-cam seems to inevitably be combined with a modern penchant for pushing the camera WAY to close to the characters and with quick cuts. Each can, if employed skillfully and with restraint, impart some energy to a sequence. It’s a case though of, if you just do them all to ramp it up to 11, brah!, the sum being considerably less than the individual parts.
Only thing worse would be slow motion or that diaherra looking filter than Hakk Snyder uses in all his films.
Did they say shaky cam? Or did they just say handheld? Because there’s a big difference.
Nobody actually calls it shaky-cam. The description however seems to imply it pretty heavily. God how I hope I’m misreading it…
Looking at Godzilla footage, it seems Edwards uses handhelds pretty judiciously. He’s certainly no Greengrass.
I’m more concerned about the inevitable color correction. Why does Hollywood hate natural-looking colors?
Because nothing says “GRITTY REALISM!!!” like “colour all that shit cyan!”
I really don’t think they’ll do that. I certainly hope not. It looked interesting back when The Matrix and Gattaca were doing it but it’s become one of the most overused stylistic techniques.
Much like shaky cam was kind of interesting when Saving Private Ryan used it to make the beach assault look like the archival footage taken by news cameramen but now every action scene has to be some confusing close up mess.
Yeah, tons of bad movies and series like Fury Road, The Dark Knight, Breaking Bad… Sometimes color grading can be a good thing you know. It always depends on how its implemented.
You mean, making everything look completely washed out, or worse yet, making everything look yellow?
Yeah, that’s another cheap filmmaking gimmick (“Gotta make this scene look GRITTY somehow…”) that comes off like amateur hour nonsense. It doesn’t bug me as much as the shaky-cam thing does, but it wore real thin with me a long time ago.
*cough* every Marvel movie ever *coughcough*
It would really depend on how the technique is employed and how sparingly it is used. I thought Captain America: Civil War made good use of it in the film’s opening sequence. We’ll see. It’s definitely one that has been abused before though.
Episode 4 had some shaky cam. Trash compactor scene for instance. I seem to recall an interview with Lucas where he said he liked to use the technique to make audience members feel part of the action. Done with taste it can be effective, but too much is jarring.
There are a couple of shots where they emphasized explosions by either shaking the camera for a moment or, if they didn’t do it on set for whatever reason, rocking the film in the gate (Han in the gunner chair for example – it looks like poop because it wasn’t shot that way). That’s not shooting whole sequences that way, and it’s really, REALLY different from Shaky-Cam though.
True fans.
Deathtrooper costume is using Vader’s belt buckle!
I am wondering if these guy will be doing extreme stuff or just an empty cool suit aimed at selling toy figurines.
Bit of both most likely.
Its Star Wars. It will be both.
I noticed that…wondering what the significance is.
………..probably none.
Well, since the Deathtroopers sound like they are a unique unit under the personal command of Krrenic(? God, these names are BAD), and since he hates Vader? Probably no significance. When the inevitable visual dictionary is published however, I’m sure it will reference something like Vader’s atmospherically sealed suit. Nobody on the art team would be stupid enough to blatantly copy a piece of Vader’s costume for no reason at all.
That shot of the Deathtrooper in front of an explosion is just plain badass…
Also am I the only one who struggles a lot remembering their names?
You’ll remember their names in no time.
The hero names? Yeah all I can ever remember is Jyn. We’ll need to see the movie to have the rest of their names burned into our memory.
Noooope. Have not been able to recall a single one outside of Jyn, excpet I keep thinking she’s “Jan”. The Star Wars Name Generator strikes again!
Now they’ve revealed Krennic’s first name I keep imagining a hologram of Palpatine saying “Mork calling Orson, Mork calling Orson”.
Millennials are so lucky they’re too young to remember that show.
I often don’t remember the names of characters from a movie I have not seen.
Yeah, but where are the Bothan’s?
Also, am I the only one who notices some of those Deathtroopers look rather feminine? Not in this photo particularly.
*Bothans, and for the milionth time, that was death star II. It was never specified who stole the death star I plans
doh, you got me. I just wanted to see me some Bothans.
Well, they retroactively added women troopers to the era so it would make sense for there to be mixed sex squads. Makes sense since there doesn’t seem to be the sexist attitude towards women in that universe so much as there is in our own. Prejudices in aGFFA seem to run more along special lines for the most part.
Where did they retroactively add women troopers? I know there was a female stormtrooper (in addition to Phasma) in TFA but that’s 30+ years later and the FO generally seems to have a more mixed officer class but I put that down to them being subtly different to the Empire.
Battlefront to be specific. Also Rebels has had female recruits shown and female voices come out of stormie heads before.
Okay, I wasn’t aware of that. I knew there were female rebels in Battlefront but I haven’t actually played the game.
Yeah, it’s been a “thing” quietly since the EU (here and there after the Emperors fall) but was kind of announced as a “thing” officially when Battlefront came out and half the stormie heads were chicks.
Oh, now I think about it there was a female stormtrooper character in that Battlefront novel.
Yep, I had forgotten about that!
It’s that photo of the troopers where one is holding a doll. Those two have a stance that reminds me of Phasma. I also noticed the DT’s all look rather slender. Not that it makes them feminine, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is more to those DT’s than one might think at first glance.
To be fair the OT stormies aren’t really bulky though. I agree that there could definitely be more to them though.
Bothans were the 2nd Death Star.
yeah, thanks. I got too excited, I guess.
It happens!
I hope Laura Dern plays an older Jyn Erso in VIII. Except for her being blonde, her facial structure is quite similar to Felicity Jones’.
I prefer she play someone completely new. I want the galaxy to feel large — not like a small town in the Midwest where everyone knows everyone.
“Joan of Arc”. I wouldn’t count on it 🙂
I have to say I don’t think they look anything alike. At all. But, ok.
Also pretty much 100% convinced Jyn Erso is not getting out of this alive.
I agree. I don’t think many of these characters will survive this story.
Characters from this are not going to appear in the saga films.
Apart from Mon Mothma & Vader.
Sigh. No, NEW characters. Sorry, should have been more specific. New characters created for this movie are not meant to pop up in the saga. They have been clear on that.
The more I see of this thing, the more I have to say the design of the film is already looking miles better than TFA. Blasters look like blasters, the new TKs look like they belong in the same universe as all the OT TKs…just…perfect. Even if the film ends up blowing chunks, there is some sweet, sweet eye candy here.
I agree. If only TFA had these tie fighters instead of… what we ended up getting.
Which is weird if you think about it. The FO TIEs are almost nothing but reverse-painted OT TIEs, but with a buch of chunky guns glued on them like the Kenner POTF2 vehicles. And yet they look more out of place than what we’re getting here.
Or out of the future…30 years.
Well I think both movies make sense in terms of design. this movie has stuff closer to the origtrig because it’s like within a year of it instead of like 20 years. That being said I thought I’d hate these new stormies and actually like their designs a lot. It does however raise the question how they’re going to kick them out of the picture or explain why these elite black troopers were never seen hunting down our heroes in the other movies
I partially agree, but I still get a sense of maybe trying too hard to be awesome. They have to be careful not to diminish the OT, especially ANH. Eye candy or not, I mostly hope for a great story set in my favorite fantasy world that doesn’t have too much stupid action or pop culture BS.
What’s the new planet? The one with palm trees and sandy beach or the one with the muddy/grassy field? Earth?
Have to see the movie
Probably one that looks like Rishi, feels like Rishi but is not named Rishi. Like it’s the constant case with the new canon these days.
Scarif
So in essence: this is a Battlefront movie. No compelling story or engaging characters, just stuff getting blown up? Every Star Wars movie has war in it, what makes this one so ‘special’? Apart from the flimsy story, it’s an excuse to give us more OT stormtroopers and Vader?
That’s exactly what it is.
I saw it yesterday.
I saw it a couple of years ago and I can confirm, it’s all about more OT stormtroopers and Vader blowing stuff up together.
……….Who hurt you?
If that’s what it is I’ll be disappointed. It’s ridiculous to pretend we know anything NEAR enough to say that’s the case, though. On the other hand…
– Jyn looks like a compelling lead (yes, I even like the “I rebel” line, bite me).
– It sounds like there will be Imperial political intrigue with Vader and Krennic competing for favor.
– The rebels aren’t united — Saw Gerrera and Mon Mothma represent two extremes that must be reconciled.
– Although I fear his character may be a bit of a cliché — Donnie Yen vs Vader, anyone?
Ummm….. The name of the movie is STAR WARS, not STAR DEBATES
Off Topic: No article regarding GL giving up on the museum in Chicago?
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-lucas-museum-chicago-drops-plans-1201803673/
I thought that was established a long time ago and he was back to looking somewhere in the Bay area?
The official word came through late last week that Chicago is now off the table.
It was a looong fight in Chicago.
SF is only now back on the table.
Finally,
I sorta wish they saved these trooper designs for the FO storm troopers instead of what we got in TFA..they look more “futuristic” and different (which would match a new time period) it’s also way more menacing..
TFA was all about cashing on fan service and nostalgia, there was no placefor innovation and risks. All the ships should have been upgraded just like the prequels ships were more retro. We had the destroyers and X-wing predecessors, TFA should have made their successors.
Completely agree
Rogue One should have come before TFA….
TFA DID make successors though I agree that in order to make us Star Wars geeks feel at home again, things it some or many ways had to mirror the originals. I enjoyed TFA quite a bit, but I would be blind if I didn’t see the similarities between it and ANH.
Regarding the designs looking too similar, it is the natural progression of things. Keep in mind our own technology. Look back say 35 years ago at the jets we used compared to today. The looks in many circumstances are not radically different, though the hardware that they use is. Also, some designs are used for many years. Some people suspect that the B52 may see it’s 100th year in service, which is not completely unthinkable.
I blame Mon Monthma and how the New Republic didn’t feel a need to keep the military well equipped. The resistance is mostly just scrapping old ships and modifying as needed
“All the ships should have been upgraded…”
How do you know they weren’t? Just because they looked similar doesn’t mean they didn’t have greatly upgraded systems. And really, in a galaxy that has had interstellar travel for thousands of years, how much technological innovation would you expect to see over a mere 30 years?
When I say upgraded I mean not just technically but their shape should have evolved just like the F-16 was evolved into the F-22 and F-35. But I know JJ Abrams wanted to play with the old toys. The Millenium Falcon shouldn’t even exist anymore, it was a piece of junk in ANH, but it looked like it came out of the production line in TFA.
They did evolve. If you would have calmed down and seen through your red haze of rage because of a female lead, you’d have noticed some distinct differences between the X-Wings and the TIE Fighters. Regarding the Falcon: have you ever seen junky old cars nursed through some bad years, only to go to pot before being restored and brought back to life? I’m sure you have. So why can’t this apply to the Falcon. Which, by the way, hardly looked like it rolled off the factory floor in TFA.
The Falcon was already a piece of junk in ANH and it regularly stalled and had to be constantly maintained in ESB and ROTJ. Yet in TFA we have the same Falcon rotting in the desert, that’s not the best condition, it hasn’t flown for years but it starts immediatly when Rey puts her magical butt on the cockpit seat and starts doing acrobatics Han Solo and Chewie combined would never dream of! But that’s okay, she can do aaaaaaaaaaaaaanything, even with less than a piece of junk she seemingly knows everything about better than Solo!
Unkar Plutt made several modifications so you can assume he used the ship even though Rey might not recall it. It’s like an old Motorcycle that you constantly have to repair yet still works years after you bought it. I don’t see any problem there, one would assume that a ship that is capable of interstellar flight has a longer lifespan than a real world Fiat. I mean Lukes Xwing could still be used even after it sunk in a swamp…
No , if you let your motorcycle rotting in the desert without driving it for years, your added equipment is a waste of money and time because the engine won’t even start, let alone allow you to pull stunts. Upgrading the Falcon didn’t make any sense since it is abandonned, the only reason was to justify a scen where Rey outsmarts Han Solo about his own ship, because feminism! What man does, girl can do better is their motto
As I said, what you know about our vehicles certainly does not apply to the futuristic technology of Star Wars. Ancient Sith temples that have been abandoned for millenias still work and no one bats an eye. Why make such a drama about the Falcon? Btw what you interpret as “femisism” is simply a gifted charcter who happens to have breasts. I feel sorry for you if that irritates you. Must be really hard to accept that someone who has been scavanging space ship equipment during her whole life is better at fixing things than someone who is primarily a smuggler.
No, the OT showed us that the Falcon was a piece of junk that needs constantly to be fixed just like an old car, and it was supposed to be the case about 30 years prior to TFA. Just imagine in what state it should be if it wasn’t even flown and waiting in the desert! The Falcon scene was just plain stupid.
Girl power being rubbed in the viewer’s face at every turn is feminism laced with misandry as every male in the movie is dumber than a broomstick. Rey piloting skill are beyond ridiculous, even Han Solo helped by Chewie wouldn’t pull her stunts, but that’s okay, she has a vagina, but breasts I’m not sure.
The F-22 evolved from the F-15. They’re pretty similar.
The same amount of technological innovation we got from the 18 year gap between the PT and the OT…
Put it this way..another example of what looks and feels like it would be a futuristic design without drifting too far from the original, is the tie striker that’s in RO..imagine that bad boy chasing the falcon instead of a regular looking tie fighter that’s just painted black and red.
Anyone find any links to high res versions of the new picks?
Imagine what would be if this was Episode 1?
That…makes no sense?
Probably not the right spot but I’m going to pose a theory on Rey and Snoke. If indeed the story goes that there was a brother and sister and a tree and that Rey is the first Jedi, I’m going to argue that Snoke was the brother and the first dark user of the Force. He became so fearful of death, he found ways to keep himself alive. Hence, the body we see in TFA is Snoke as he looked in his original form. He fears death as do all Sith. The Jedi give themselves willingly to the Force and hence Rey’s return. This trilogy could actually end up being about a brother and his sister and the ultimate battle between light and dark. The rumor is that their family travelled to this planet. Perhaps they were travellers and “walked” the “skies” – if you get my meaning.
A few things:
Snoke is not a Sith oh and all that stuff is bullshit.
Interesting theory but maybe a bit too esoteric for the average moviegoer. Personally I already had a somewhat hard time watching the lost episodes of the clone wars with the priestesses of the force and that force planet. while visually stunning (for an animated series) it had a weird feeling to it. I am ok with that arc now that I have seen it a second time but I don’t think that the average SW viewer would appreciate such a mythological approach to the new trilogy.
Whoa brave death trooper, stealing vaders belt buckle.