Browsing: Rogue One

Good news for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story fans come 2019, it sounds like production on the Disney+ series centering around Cassian Andor will start production towards the tail end of the new year! According to Production Weekly, things will kickoff on the series in October of 2019: Production is scheduled to commence in October 2019. […]

Earlier this month, it was revealed that a live-action television series based Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was coming to Disney’s streaming service Disney+. The announcement also included news that Diego Luna, who played Captain Cassian Andor in Rogue One, would be reprising his role for the series. As of today, we know that Stephen Schiff has been tapped […]

Earlier this month, it was revealed that a live-action television series based Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was coming to Disney’s streaming service Disney+. The announcement also included news that Diego Luna, who played Captain Cassian Andor in Rogue One, would be reprising his role for the series. As of today, we know that Stephen Schiff has been tapped […]

Today during the Disney quarterly earnings call, Bob Iger revealed a TON of planned films and series for the streaming service, now called Disney+. The one that surprised us the most (and also excited us the most) is the reveal of a Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel SERIES starring Diego Luna as his R1 character, Cassian Andor. […]

There were so many wonderful parts to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Go ahead, fight me. Writer/director Rian Johnson knew his audience well, and hid numerous nods to the fandom in his film. Some of these things are well known now after a weekend of repeated viewings (I myself saw it twice), but maybe you missed […]

It comes as no real shock that Rogue One continues to dominate the holiday season box office. With a midweek boost in response to the recent passing of Carrie Fisher, the Star Wars Expanded Universe film has racked up another $153 million at the domestic box office (its total worldwide take is nearing $700 million […]

Rogue One’s use of the character of Grand Moff Tarkin, as played by Peter Cushing is an impressive next step in the use of CGI to allow filmmakers to be able to utilize actors who have either passed away, or need to be shown at a far younger age. In Cushing’s case, he had died back in ’94, which left filmmakers with only a few options: not use the character at all, to recast, or to utilize special effects to see how far through the uncanny valley the industry has progressed.

There are special snowflakes out there who will take ANY talk about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as spoilers, so consider this your first warning that I will be talking about things that happen in the film. If you know your Star Wars, nothing in Rogue One will come as a shock, a surprise, or a spoiler. […]

TL;DR: Let’s be really clear – more than anything else, Rogue One is a PG-13 sci-fi war movie. Sure, it’s not Saving Private Ryan level, but if you were to cut out some of Ryan’s flying limbs, guts, and blood – it’s not entirely that far off. It’s definitely still in the Star Wars Universe – […]

We’re down to it just being a number of hours before Rogue One opens and everyone is talking about it at the office, at school, on the commute, and basically everywhere. In celebration of it once again being Star Wars week, we wanted to pull together a selection of some of our favorite SW cosplay […]