First Full Star Wars: Rogue One Clip Arrives – Jyn and Cassian Escape From Jedha.
One of the first action sequences in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story that we got a glimpse at was the scene of Jyn Erso gunning down and bludgeoning a small squadron of Stormtroopers. Now, mere weeks from the release of the film, we get to see part of what the sequence looks like in the finished film. (Plus, get a brief ear-full of Michael Giacchino’s score!)
The clip above is actually from an interview with Felicity Jones on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon (hence the laughter heard after the fake-out with K-2SO), though Bennett R. Boyle shared the scene on its own with us. If you’re interested in hearing Felicity’s story about how she learned martial arts for this scene, take a look at the conversation below.
A few more clips ought to arrive as we get closer to the release of the movie, so those of you who are averse to seeing too much of the movie before it comes out might want to practice some restraint in the next few days. For everyone else, we’ll be sure to keep you covered as new footage arrives, so stay tuned!
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
Looks great, sounds great, music is great, it seems to have a serious yet light tone so far. The stormtroopers still suck at their job and K-2SO was the highlight. 🙂
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was filmed in front of a live studio audience.”
Looks very promising!
Looks great, but again the score is not as impactful as i would like to hear. Why is the music in the TRAILERS lately so much BETTER than the Music in the actual film(s) ?
This is just a very small piece of music, and it fits perfectly. The trailers pumped up some random SW themes. This is finer, and very well executed (very Williams-y)
The trailer music is simply SW themes played in the style of every other action movie score these days, farmed out to third party trailer composers. John Williams is still the best in the business, and Giacchino is a worthy alternate.
You heard 39 seconds worth from a short clip… get a grip.
Harsh to judge 40 seconds worth as being a reflection of the overall score.
Not every second of a score is amazing. Even Williams has some less than stellar sequences.
Subjective opinion or science?
Reality.
As evidenced by some people saying his TFA score didn’t grab them (I loved it, but there are parts that are mundane)
Isn’t that true with all soundtracks? I mean if there had been an internet in 1977.
Yes. That’s why my initial comment was “Not every second of a score is amazing.”
I still haven’t bonded with the TFA score. Seems “weak” during many scenes instead of elevating them.
HOLY SHEET, THERE ARE MORE K2s!!!
Figures, since he’s meant to be one of a line of Imperial droids.
He ain’t got shit on a mouse droid though! 😉
This is pretty neat too.
http://people.com/movies/virtual-reality-exclusive-go-behind-the-scenes-of-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story/
I’M SO EXCITED!
I really like the clip, but I absolutely HATE that music!!!! Very distracting!
There’s always one… actually there’s usually loads on here.
Yes, there’s always at least one sycophant who can’t stand any other opinion than “It’s the best thing EVAR!!!!”.
39 seconds of a clip and piece of music taken out of the context of a much larger scene – why on earth would anyone criticise something they have seen so little of…? And did I even give you my opinion? No, because I haven’t seen enough to give an informed opinion.
You gave criticism of someone based on a one line comment, a one line comment that did not purport to give an opinion on anything other than the 40 second clip.
Yawn…
There’s also people with the “everything sucks” mentality.
Which is clearly not me since I started my comment by saying “I really like the clip”. I just watched the clip and found the music distracting again. Maybe it is just too loud, rather than the music not being good, but I find the music pulling me away from the visuals. It reminds me of “Dual of the Fates” which I really like. But in this clip it just seems really loud and distracting.
Disagree with me if you want, but it is really childish of someone like lozpot to criticize someone for voicing an opinion that differs from theirs. I guess there’s always one (or lots of them) on the internet!
Yes, but neither he, nor I, are one of them.
We call that Asperger syndrom lol
I wouldn’t quite call it distracting, but it was noticeably not Williams, even though it’s clearly trying to be. Given that Giacchino came in so late in the day he probably deserves some slack.
Music reminds me of the Escape the Death Star score from ANH. Not the best when listening in isolation, but in the context of the film, it adds to the action and tension in the scene. The score will make it or break it during the quiet and suspenseful portions of the film where it will add or distract from the emotional content (ie. Obi-wans sacrifice, Luke flying the death star trench, etc.)
Agree.
You’re just a hater, an anti Italian American bigot. I bet you wouldn’t say that if it was John Williams.
Yep,those are Stormtroopers,can’t hit shit
This will turn out to be the best Star Wars movie ever made, and BOOST up the Star Wars hype so much that Episode 8, Han Solo will be huge hits. This is Star Wars heaven
Hyperbole much?
Best Star Wars ever made? Calm yourself. When it becomes as iconic as Empire and New Hope, then we can have that discussion.
Yep,those are Stormtroopers,can’t hit shit
Oh man… K-2SO part… I chuckled 🙂
I guess I’ll never have my menacing storm troopers… Here’s hoping Death Troopers are no joke.
I said, hello Mary Sue…
If Jyn were a Mary Sue she’d have personally blown up the Death Star! 😉
And what if she had? Luke blew up the Death Star and we called him a Jedi.
No, we called him a Jedi because he used the force to blow up the Death Star……and then trained as a Jedi. 😉
Yes, you’re right. Thanks for the correction.
That recognised, we might not have called him a Jedi yet, but we DID call him a hero 🙂
God I hate that term. People just throwing it out there like that’s the only word they know when describing a female character.
And they don’t do it to Bruce Willis when he beats up people.
Yup. It’s so stupid.
Sexist moron sees a strong woman character – “Hey, it’s a Mary Sue!”
Sexist moron sees a strong male character – “Hey, kickass!”
Sexist moron is sexist moron.
It’s two words dummy.
Stormtroopers always have been and always will be cannon fodder. Their sole purpose in the films is to be punching bags for our heroes. There will be other threats that Jyn can’t overcome. Be patient.
ikr, even Chewie struggled with those two ST in the carbon chamber in Cloud City, but these new heroes take ’em out like flies with Batman punches smh
He was handcuffed and carrying Threepio on his back.
If it was guy, would you say that? Because guys do that sort of thing all the time and don’t get pejoratives lobbed at them.
I have yet to meet a man named Mary Sue, but I did hear Johnny Cash sing about “A Boy Named Sue”! 😉
Thanks for calling him out on that. Thumbs up!
“Thumbs up!” – ok then – I guess that must be one of those virtue signals, now that she feels safe again.
“If it was guy, would you say that?” – I’m sorry, I don’t know guy.
We’ll have to see the movie first, but it’s possible. Still, the fact that she almost killed K-2SO is much more of a flaw than anything we saw with Rey, so it might not be so bad this time. I have no doubt in my mind that characters like Rey and now Jyn are meant to inspire young girls; Kathleen Kennedy has said as much. I just hope they don’t neglect making them human (and I don’t mean in species).
Oh FFS….
Oh STFU….
Don’t be a sexist a-hole. There’s no way you would say that if she were a guy.
Of course not, who ever heard of a guy called Mary Sue.
Like I said…
Like I mean… yah, you know, sure, like whateverrrr, actually.
looks alright , not rubbish , not citizen kane ….. itll do .
Must resist the temptation to watch this clip.
Same. Ugh… lol
Déjà vu…
that was great. especially I liked the Giacchino score. I was afraid in the past months that Giacchino would try to make his own thing, but this score resembled so much John Willliams’ score, that I’m very positive about the score now. This movie might be great.
I hope it’s not just a John Williams style score. That’s good and all but I want some unique touches. I also want absence of music when there’s no need for music, like maybe the beach assault where the eerie sound effects of the battlefield are all you need, ala Saving Private Ryan.
I want star wars to feel star wars. Hence, I disagree… the closest to williams’ orchestration, the best.
Well, I disagree, and strongly. If you don’t have a John Williams Style score, much of Star Wars’ uniqueness and magic is lost. Jurassic World was a film in wich Giacchino tried doing his own thing, but the only outstanding score moment was the reiteration of Williams’ original Jurassic Park theme, so, I’m much more quiet knowing that he chose rather to follow Williams’ style. As for music-less action scenes, that’s not new. I recall the podrace scene in TPM having absolutely no score in-race until the very end of the last lap, and maybe some portions of the final battle in that same movie… or maybe even Episode II had that. Sound-less action scenes and battles aren’t uncommon in Star Wars.
I also want unique and different for Rogue One. Save the traditional “Williams” orchestrated style for trilogies. I think Giacchino will do something good with this movie.
So… stormtroopers still have no idea how to shoot and hit targets… cool. That’s what I would expect from imperial army.
I love this clip, because it reminds me on Rebels, also, LOVE the joke at the end!!
Thank God for that stormtrooper accuracy!
Did anyone else notice the laugh track at the end?
Strom Trooper armor really doesn’t do much in the way of protecting them. They get hurt so easily. Might be more annoying then the inability to aim.
Yeah, I’ve never once seen the armour deflect a blast or protect them in any way. Even a rock from an Ewok could take them out.
They really should show the armour working in some way other than just looking cool.
Unexpected 5 lb rock a helmeted head can still knock you down.
Also being pushed against a tree at full force – ok maybe not from an ewok – could snap your neck or knock you unconscious. I suppose.
This has always been the case. Stormtrooper armor is more a tool to negate individuality among the ranks and to foster obedience by striking fear into the citizens of the Empire. It has never been for protection. The Clone Trooper armor was a little more stout and could take a beating, but you never saw stormtroopers survive blaster bolts, even in the OT.
Ok, going to the EU here, but still…
In most books, the armor is mostly used for the above, along with heating/cooling/smoke filter/voice comm. In some books, the armor is decent at deflecting blaster bolts and absorbing energy. There was a Zahn book I read with Leia Luke and Han on Tattooine trying to find some Alderaanian artifact where the armor was especially good (when the heroes wore it!) at deflecting and stopping blaster bolts, I was pretty frustrated reading it. In other books, the helmet has infrared and night vision or thermals. So, it all depends. In TFA it filters smoke but not poisonous gas right, but doesn’t stop blasters and obviously doesn’t cool or Finn wouldn’t have taken it off…unless a power source was dead maybe?
The Ewok rock always drove me crazy. Being pushed against a tree was another one. Seriously though, the suit seems to have no utility purpose.
that’s an hommage to OT. Remember how ewoks fighted stormies with stone and wood.
I really like the music. Very reminiscent of William’s style. Hopefully there will be new iconic themes aswell.
Hmmm… I’m not so sure….
It could be… Giacchino is not the last moron on the planet 😉
Perfect.
Loving the Jyn-K2SO relationship so far. She definitely looks like she kinda wished she had killed him there.
I suspect this was edited down for tv. At least I hope it was. Otherwise, we’ll never know how that stormtrooper ended up unconscious on the bench (you can briefly see his raised blaster when Cassian rounds the corner). And we’ll never see how Jyn becomes bloodied. Or how she ends up with one of the stormtrooper’s blasters.
Did they replace the Opening Crawl with a laugh track? Wow. They really are going to extreme lengths to make these Star Wars Stories distinguished from the saga.
This clip is from Jimmy Fallon live show, and crowd laughed,that’s why it has laughs in the background
I just fell in love with her. Anyone giving her address out. Jk
This clip is from Jimmy Fallon live show, and crowd laughed,that’s why it has laughs in the background.
Must. Resist.
i m not watching trailers since 1 month maybe more lol
that was great
I don’t want to critique Giacchino with just a :40 video clip, but it already has me fairly disappointed.
Giacchino being hokey as ever, overemphasizing the mood of a scene as per usual. Honestly, I think this scene would have been fine or even better without the music.
Hopefully, the clip doesn’t speak for the rest of the film and the score is actually much better than here.
the storm trooper armour is quite useless !
What are these batons made of that they can knock out a man in a full armour?! Besides that, I quite enjoy the score.
Music from MG seems very Hitchcockian. Will reserve judgement…
I swear a ton of fans are spoiled.
Every time I see a stormtrooper and rebel stand-off, I hear the Police Squad theme tune and think of Frank Drebin in this type of situation –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr2GeWiDrdY