The Star Wars Show: Secrets Of Rogue One Explained
Today on The Star Wars Show:
Leland Chee, Pablo Hidalgo, and Matt Martin of the Lucasfilm Story Group share Rogue One secrets, a few Rebels Easter eggs, production details and more with show host Andy Gutierrez. It’s an episode you won’t want to miss!
Highlights Include:
- The story behind Chopper and his cameo appearance in ‘Rogue One’.
- Pablo shares details on how two ‘A New Hope’ X-Wing fighter pilots made their startling return in ‘Rogue One’.
- A special ship seen in ‘Return of the Jedi’ returns to the big screen.
- How could have Ponda Baba and Dr. Cornelius Evazan escaped Jedha’s fate?
- The Story behind the use of The Guardians of the Whills in ‘Rogue One’.
- Why is the Death Star upside down in R1? Pablo explains.
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awesome interview, these guys are great.
Good stuff!
They didn’t mention that one of Saw’s henchmen wears the helmet of an Elite Corps Clone Trooper, who first appeared in ROTS. Their uniforms look like precursors to the Biker Scout, painted in green camouflage. They appeared with the Turbo Tanks (AKA Juggernauts) on Kashyyyk.
I wondered if that small white droid on the Erso family homestead is a Pit Droid with a different head.
Also, I would say the best explanation for the Death Star 2: The Empire started construction on it a few years after starting construction on the DS1. They always intended to have two at once. (It’s a big galaxy that they have to control, after all.) After the DS1 was destroyed, construction on the DS2 was delayed while Imperial engineers sought to improve it, and the Empire wanted to keep its existence in secret. I understand that the official canon now says that the DS2 construction began after ANH, but I think the two-at-once idea would have worked better, made more sense.
DS 2 was also bait for a trap.
as it can be read in Darth Vader #1, DS-2 had the exact same purpose as DS-1.
Yes but The Emperor baited them to attack it.
still, that wasn’t the reason that led to its construction in the first place.
OK, Rogue One was great and all, but it’s time for some Ep.8 info.
It’s only been a month. Chill.
By this time with TFA, we already had a title and trailer out for 2 months. Throw us a frikkin’ bone, here!
Probably since SW was pretty much on hiatus from 2012 to then, I think they are worried about overexposure here. Especically with Han Solo out a mere 6 months after VIII which is unprecedented.
It may delayed until Dec from what I hear.
I wouldn’t be surprised. December needs to be the new Star Wars month.
I finally got caught up on all these episodes and I have to admit it’s gotten a little bit better but I think the After Show is much better since it’s more geared to the hardcore fans and less gimmicky.
is it just me but did it seem that leland/pablo are competing/trying to prove who is the most useful in sw continuity.
It’s just you
I find it strange that Leland mentioned the Hammerhead corvettes when the ones that were shown in Rogue One weren’t even the ones from Rebels. The Hammerheads from Rebels were called P1, P2, and P3, and each had three engines. Meanwhile, the Hammerhead from Rogue One (the one that took down the Star Destroyers) was called Lightmaker, and it had four engines.
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sounds good…besides the fact they messed up the most important detail. The plans were beamed to the command ship and not Leia’s ship in Rogue One.Vader says ” several Transmissions were beamed aboard THIS ship by rebel Spies” in Ep 4…and why would Leia claim she was on a diplomatic mission knowing that Vader just watched her escape from the command ship during the battle and followed her? lol..Vader was chasing a rebel who was carrying the disc…why would he ask her about the transmissions being beamed to the ship when he was clearly chasing the rebel with the disc because he already captured the ship that the transmission was actually beamed to?? Wouldn’t he have asked her where the disc was since he actually saw the disc and was chasing the Rebels who had it?…Vader wreckin all of those guys at the end of the movie like he was in his prime must have really done a number on him…considering a week after he did that he could barely sword fight with a 70 year old man…Rogue one was not as good as everyone is making it out to be.it started out awesome.people were too high on nostalgia to even realize that the entire ending took a big dump all over Canon and contradicted not only the first 20 minutes of Episode 4 but the ending as well…The Vader we see in Rogue One would have ended Kenobi in 2 seconds……and NOW Rebels is bringing Obiwan into its show….even though Ben tells Luke he hasn’t gone by that name since before he was born and hadn’t heard it in a long long time…He actually has to sit down when Luke says the name, as if realizing his passed had finally caught up to him..So Filoni is going to do his best to make that scene mean absolutely nothing now too.Filoni is just going to make it so Maul doesn’t call him Obiwan..LOL..thats all he is going to do, and he is going to try to convince you that is ok and it works.. smh, people should stop drinking the Kool-Aid and start calling them out on this madness instead of praising them…these are big things they are messing up here! They fill holes left from mistakes in the OT, and then turn around and dig even bigger ones…I wish they would just leave shit alone before they wreck anything else. Everyone says ” oh it blends PERFECT into Episode 4″..lol…How can you sit here and say that watching Rogue one and then watching Episode 4 that they were not completely confused with Vader’s first conversation with Leia? that scene makes NO SENSE now…and now the end Fight Scene with Obiwan in Ep 4 seems like a complete joke now as well… you cannot watch that scene now without thinking about the final scene in Rogue one and completely shake your head, laugh and say WTF…
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