Mon Mothma to Have a Pivotal Role in Rogue One!

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Entertainment Weekly shared more details on Rogue One on the day their latest issue hits the stores. This time Anthony Breznican gave away a few tidbits about Mon Mothma and her importance to the movie’s story…

 

 

Actress Genevieve O’Reilly, will reprise her role as Mon Mothma (she played the same character in Revenge of the Sith, but later was cut from the movie) in Rogue One. The teaser trailer that was released a few months ago showed that Mothma will have a more important role than in ROTS, and EW has some more details on her:

 

We’ve already seen Mothma in the teaser trailer, but it was unclear whether that would just be a cameo. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy now tells EW she gets a “significantly larger” role than in Jedi.

 

“We actually see quite a bit of her,” says Kennedy (who’s kind of the Mon Mothma of Lucasfilm now). “The Rebel alliance is in disarray. Pretty panicked. Up against it. And she is trying the best she can to provide the leadership, in amongst a wide variety of Rebel soldiers that have very differing opinions as to what to do.”

 

As you can see Genevieve O’Reilly’s character will definitely not be cut from the movie this time. More details on December 16, 2016.

 

For the full story make sure to go to Entertainment Weekly.

 

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39 thoughts on “Mon Mothma to Have a Pivotal Role in Rogue One!

  • June 24, 2016 at 8:25 pm
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    I am hoping Bail Organa will make an appearance of some sort in ‘Rogue One’ too considering his importance – what is Jimmy Smits doing nowadays?

    • June 24, 2016 at 11:38 pm
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      Yep – even a hologram would be fine

    • June 25, 2016 at 12:07 pm
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      I would want that too – he would be perfectly placed to be in ROGUE ONE. Alas, since there has been no news about Bail Organa, I sadly suspect he’ll play no role. Such a wasted opportunity to flesh out a wonderful – and important – character in SW lore.

      • June 28, 2016 at 1:19 am
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        At least a lot of his major presence is still canon, looking at the prequels and Clone Wars.

  • June 24, 2016 at 8:52 pm
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    This is great news. I do like a bit of the political side of Star Wars so I’m interested in seeing how the Rebel Alliance views itself and their role in the galaxy; particularly how they view armed conflict and its use in furthering their aims. Can’t wait!

  • June 24, 2016 at 10:08 pm
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    This titem? When was she cut before?

    • June 24, 2016 at 10:09 pm
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      from Revenge of the Sith. Same actress plays her in a deleted scene.

  • June 25, 2016 at 2:41 am
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    I guess she was on vacation during the whole battle of Yavin thing.

    • June 25, 2016 at 8:06 pm
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      She probably went back to the senate when the Emperor decided to resolve it and was then involved in the aftermath of Alderaan being destroyed

    • June 25, 2016 at 9:00 pm
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      Only Rebels with sweet, sweet beards need apply.

  • June 25, 2016 at 4:15 am
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    Re: Mon Mothma’s lover – pivotal motivation?

    Even though her lover was killed around the time of RotJedi, uncovering the 2nd Death Star, I do wonder if we’ll get to see Manuel Both-Hanz in this movie.

    She was obviously emotionally distraught over his passing.

  • June 25, 2016 at 4:59 am
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    About time. I’d like to see the old one back in VIII too.

    • June 25, 2016 at 7:58 pm
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      She died of cancer years ago however.

      • June 26, 2016 at 12:56 am
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        Nope, Caroline Blakiston still lives. She’s 83 now.

        • June 27, 2016 at 9:34 pm
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          Really? I could have sworn I read Anthony Daniels years ago say she had died from breast cancer. My bad.

      • June 26, 2016 at 2:47 pm
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        She was in Poldark last year. Bring her back I say, more acting ability in her than Fisher.

  • June 25, 2016 at 8:15 am
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    I can’t believe they would cut such a great couch scene out of Ep. 3. Out of all the greatest couch scenes in these films why this one?

    • June 25, 2016 at 4:37 pm
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      From Wikipedia.

      And technically, they’re there, just on a different part of the disc 😉

    • June 25, 2016 at 7:57 pm
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      It actually is a pretty nice scene – it gives Bail some reason to be in the film, it gives Padme something to do besides be a baby factory and a dead-wife macguffin, and establishes Mon Mothma. It’s a decently acted little chunk, and the only reason it was chopped is because Lucas decided he needed the film to exclusively focus on Anakin’s fall…I THINK mainly because he had pretty much failed to make the best use of his time in the previous films to start that journey and had to somehow stuff it all into Sith.

      • June 26, 2016 at 4:30 am
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        I prefer the scene where she meets with Palpatine regarding the petition and he expresses misgivings about her to Anakin afterwards. It puts Anakin in between a rock and a hard place. Regardless of the pregnancy, he has to maintain the good graces of Palpatine to save Padme from being labeled a traitor and prosecuted as such.

        • June 27, 2016 at 9:44 pm
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          The two scenes definitely would have worked together. Again, I Iike this one particularly because without it, there’s really no character reason for Padme in Sith apart from being, already, pregnant, and being an inert object Anakin worries about. At the risk of sounding all SJW-ery, strictly from a story perspective I want a reason for Padme to be in this movie and for me to CARE that Anakin kills her. That we also get a reason for Bail to be in the film, and the groundwork for a sense of why Leia is who she is in SW (her dad is a founding member of the Alliance), AND an idea of Mon Mothma’s importance is pure gravy.

    • June 25, 2016 at 9:45 pm
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      It was taking valuable screen time away from the Anakin/Padme couch scene, the Obi Wan/Padme couch scene/ the Jedi Council sit around in chairs scene and the Yoda/Anakin meditation room ottoman scene.

    • June 26, 2016 at 4:56 am
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      “I can’t believe they would cut such a great couch scene out of Ep. 3. Out of all the greatest couch scenes in these films why this one?”

      It was too good for the film.

    • June 26, 2016 at 6:31 am
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      Good god, that acting. Ugh.

      • June 26, 2016 at 7:17 am
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        What specifically was wrong?

        • June 26, 2016 at 1:34 pm
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          Uh…everything.

          • June 27, 2016 at 9:41 pm
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            Ha ha. That’s some quality critique right there. I’ll definitely be watching for more of your well thought out and totally supported, and NOT just pulled out of your rectum opinions in the future.

          • June 28, 2016 at 9:23 pm
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            If you need me to go into a detailed description about what consititutes quality acting, acting methodology and creating a convincing acting performance that doesn’t seem like a one-take community theater production quality recitation of the dialogue, then I would be more than happy to. But the acting is so bad, I thought it should be blatantly evident to anyone who isn’t a total moron, and therefore, not need such a description. Clearly I overestimated your ability to recognize this yourself.

        • June 26, 2016 at 7:50 pm
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          Just someone taking another typically thoughtless dig at the acting in the Prequels. Some people just do it because they know its an easy comment they’ll get a lot of likes from. There was nothing wrong with the acting here. Was a perfectly good scene

          • June 27, 2016 at 12:53 am
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            Please. The acting is laughably bad – If you know anything about what makes a convincing acting performance. I said that because it’s obvious, not because I’m hunting for likes. I could care less about likes.
            And please don’t misrepresent what I said about the music. I said I thought the score for The Force Awakens was Williams’ best SW score since The Phantom Menace. Last time I checked, Phantom was a prequel. And it is a phenomenal score. You said there was nothing memorable about it – which is simply absurd. It’s clear that identifying quality is not one of your strengths.

          • June 27, 2016 at 4:10 am
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            First of all the only weak link in this scene is perhaps the blue girl and she is Lucas’ daughter so I can forgive that, the rest are all good actors who do what they can with the lines and are fine. Secondly, there is nothing memorable about the score. Its a good score generally speaking but nothing particularly sticks out apart from Rey’s theme and thats only so noticeable because the rest of the score doesn’t fly. It has nothing that you don’t expect from a Star Wars score while the prequel scores all had selections that made you notice them, thats the difference between them, you have to really develop some sort of internal fixation for TFA score to make anything sound out much. For the casual observer though there’s not anything thats particularly memorable. Sad but true.

          • June 28, 2016 at 9:33 pm
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            They are all terrible. All of the acting is bad, particularly Portman, who is a horribly overrated actress who was awful for the entire trilogy, so one extra scene does not surprise me. The other bit actors are no better.

            As to the score, it’s evident that you have made little to no effort to appreciate the TFA score and immediately wrote it off. To say that nothing is memorable is flat out false. There are no less than five distinct and completely memorable new themes in the score and they are all excellent additions to the existing SW musical canon. But continue to live in ignorance of this fact, despite all evidence to the contrary. This is one of the most beautiful and moving themes ever written for Star Wars: https://youtu.be/Q3YcCLaTnBE

          • July 1, 2016 at 8:59 pm
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            Dude, I have no idea why but you are ridiculously over-inflating the quality of this score. If there was enough to praise it on I would do so to the high heavens but in the end and I 100% blame this on the quality of the film there is barely anything inspiring or new to be gained from it. This is Williams working with less than half of his power because the film is a lifeless soulless turd. John Williams responds to true creativity, that’s why his scores for the Prequels are so excellent because Lucas made films, regardless of whether a lot of people hate them or not, that he was invested in, that were moving and inspiring him creatively. You can feel the joy pouring out of those scores but with this it was just like whatever. I think it was you or someone else who pointed out that he especially loved doing the score for Daisy Ridley and that’s not surprising because she’s an energetic, enthusiastic girl who’s obviously over the moon to be involved in the movie and her enthusiasm shows. So yes the one thing he found inspiring in this movie produced a genuinely good track from him. Go figure.

          • July 2, 2016 at 12:12 am
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            Please explain to me why the Force Awakens score was the first SW score to be nominated for an Oscar since Return of the Jedi? I guess it was because the score was such an unmemorable lackluster effort, right? You dislike the score be use you dislike the movie. And you clearly have made little to no effort to appreciate the score by itself because you initially said that nothing about it is memorable, but now you are finally admitting that Rey’s theme is good. Why is the Resistance March unmemorable? Why is the Jedi Steps theme unmemorable? Why is Kylo Ren’s motif unmemorable? Why is Poe Dameron’s theme unmemorable? They are are all excellent new themes. And the action music is absolutely joyous and fun and less generic sounding than in the last two prequel scores.

            You have an affinity for the insultingly terrible prequel movies, their horrible acting and direction, while at the same time, bash The Force Awakens, which was an exceedingly more enjoyable, fun and engaging movie that the prequel trash and was received far better by critics and the public. So your ability to determine quality doesn’t appear to be that credible as far as I’m concerned.

      • June 27, 2016 at 10:38 pm
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        That hat!

        • June 29, 2016 at 5:32 am
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          Lampshade head.

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