Enlarge / Felicity Jones stars as Jyn Erso. (credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg)
The first installment of the reborn Star Wars is now out for people to watch at home, and the second mainline movie is in production for a December 2017 release. But fans of the Force won’t have to wait until the end of next year to revisit that far, far away galaxy: Disney’s next Star Wars movie actually hits this Christmas. It’s the first in a set of spin-off movies, and as we learned about a year ago, it’s called Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The first teaser for it landed this morning.
The teaser for Rogue One.
The teaser opens with a soft piano variation on the classic “Force theme” leitmotif (soft piano variations on old movie themes are all the rage these days in trailers!). We’re quickly introduced to plucky cynical misfit Jyn Erso, played by Felicity Jones, who it seems has quite the criminal record in the Galactic Empire. The trailer shows us where and when the film takes place: Erso is recruited by Rebellion leader Mon Mothma for a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star (presumably the first one).
The trailer—teaser, really—is short on details and dialog but long on visuals, and the visuals tugged at this old Star Wars fan’s heartstrings. Star Destroyers, Stormtroopers, and spaceships abound; the Death Star’s signature hooting alert klaxon dominates the audio for a big chunk of the trailer as the action ramps up, culminating in a hand-held shot of (again presumably) Rebellion fighters running along the sand of a beach while Imperial AT-ATs tower over them, firing down at the camera.
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