Star Wars: Rogue One Cast Revealed

At the D23 Expo, Disney announced the cast for Star Wars: Rogue One, and the cast is full of inspired choices! Among the cast, a few of the highlights include Firefly veteran, Alan Tudyk, Casino Royale antagonist, Mads Mikkelsen, and Riz Ahmed, who played a role in last year's Nightcrawler. The full cast is included below. 

Now, this is exciting! Not only will the cast include several of my favorite foreign film stars like Donnie Yen and Mads Mikkelsen, but the cast includes several seasoned veterans like Alan Tudyk and Forest Whitaker. If you are interested in seeing Donnie Yen in action, check out Ip Man 1 & 2 on Netflix for one of the best martial arts films ever made.

According to IGN.com's report, "'Rogue One takes place before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and will be a departure from the saga films but have elements that are familiar to the Star Wars universe,' said Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy. 'It goes into new territory, exploring the galactic struggle from a ground-war perspective while maintaining that essential Star Wars feel that fans have come to know. Gareth is such an innovative director and I’m so excited to be working with him and the extraordinary ensemble cast he’s selected for Rogue One.'"

My only concern is director Gareth Edwards because his work on Godzilla was nothing special. Otherwise, the story sounds fantastic! This is the type of standalone films that I wanted to see. It sounds like a story that fits within the Star Wars universe yet departs from the style of the main saga. Are you also excited for this new Star Wars film? Please comment below and let me know. 

Below is the revealed cast of the film.

• Felicity Jones
• Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal, Casino Royale)
• Diego Luna (Milk, Killing Them Softly)
• Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline, Mississippi Grind)
• Donnie Yen (Ip Man, Blade II)
• Jiang Wen (Let the Bullets Fly, Devils on the Doorstep)
• Forest Whitaker (The Butler, The Last King of Scotland)
• Alan Tudyk (Con Man, Firefly)
• Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler, Four Lions)

Below is the title of the film.

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Star Wars: Rebels New Trailers

The long awaited trailers for the upcoming Star Wars: Rebels animated series are here! Even though I am hoping beyond hope that this series is not going to suck since it still has the talent from The Clone Wars and other top animated shows from the past, I have a bad feeling about this. While I normally do not pass judgement on something for seeing it, I am not sure if Rebels is going to be anything more than a cash grab to sell toys to kids or is it going to be an awesome look into the darker times of the Star Wars universe like The Clone Wars was. My first impression of the art style is that it is a major step back compared to The Clone Wars, it is lower quality than rudimentary style of the Clone Wars' first season. Well, at least the character models are severely lacking with a cheap looking animation that looks as though it was made ten years ago! During the last few seasons of The Clone Wars, the animation positively amazing! Now we are getting this crap!? Hopefully they are not entirely finished with it yet. Maybe I should not be that disappointed since the series is airing on Disney XD (but they did air the Spectacular Spider-Man and Avengers series, which were very good), therefore my expectations should be tempered. My number one question about Rebels right now is: Are people going to die? The Clone Wars had a higher body count than most series in general, not mention an epic triple decapitation in one episode. On a side note, my opinion of western animation has become cynical considering how far ahead Japan is than the rest of the world in producing high quality stories using the medium of animation. 

Here is the second teaser about the Rebellion, but the sling shot thing looks stupid! 

Thanks T.M. Hall for updating me on this yesterday on her blog. You can check out here post here.


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Star Wars: Rebels Trailer

 

The teaser trailer to be new Star Wars: Rebels series has been released and we now know just about the show as we did before the teaser. Since this is a teaser, I will give the show the benefit of the doubt, even if the voice guy is corny. The show is from Dave Filoni (creator of The Clone Wars), Simon Kinberg (writer for Sherlock (2009)), and Greg Weisman (The Spectacular Spider-Man and Young Justice), therefore it should not disappoint unless the executives force them to make a kid's show, which The Clone Wars was not (except for those few episodes). My biggest question is: what happened to those missing Clone Wars episodes!? We where suppose to be getting them this year but I have heard nothing about it. What do you think of the teaser? Please comment below.

 

 

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