Forget Black Friday, It’s Black Monday As US Rogue One Tickets Go On Sale

Hopefully Fandango administrators are spending the weekend beefing up their server capacity as Disney’s LucasFilm has made the announcement that advance ticket sales for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will start Monday morning in the United States, two and a half weeks before the Dec. 16 opening.

Online ticketers Alamo Drafthouse, Atom Tickets and Fandango said they would launch sales at 12:01 a.m. EST on Monday with Alamo advertising additional Rogue One swag as part of purchase packages:

Ready to go rogue? Tickets for ROGUE ONE go on sale this Monday with an exclusive @MondoNews glass! Details: https://t.co/KwJXzAeuaM pic.twitter.com/WtyXWorAvv

— Alamo San Francisco (@DrafthouseSF) November 25, 2016

https://twitter.com/atomtickets/status/802040674715471872

Our friends across the pond were fortunate to have ticket sales already start back on the 21st in the UK, with this arguably cooler poster art along with it:

U.K. Your time is now. pic.twitter.com/RKXlRsm3ju

— Disney Lucasfilm (@DisneyLucasfilm) November 21, 2016

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens opened over the same weekend a year ago, and when the presale tickets went on sale online ticket outlets’ servers started crashing from the load. If at first you don’t succeed, keep calm and keep on trying.

The film is directed by Gareth Edwards, who incidentally has only helmed two feature films prior to Rogue One – Monsters and Godzilla. The story is set several years prior to the original film in the series, Star Wars: A New Hope, released in 1977 and involves the rebel efforts to steal the designs for the first Death Star. The tone is expected to be different from prior films in being more of a war movie revolving around the rebel soldiers rather than having the Jedi as a central focus.

So get ready everyone, and see you all online at Sunday evening at 9 p.m. PST / Monday morning 12 a.m. EST. May the Force be with you.