Star wars: rogue one - characters and equipment. parsing

Although the film "" takes place between "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope", new picture Many previously unknown characters appear. However, viewers should not be afraid of this: after all, Luke Skywalker also appeared on screens for the first time.

Let's take a closer look at each character in Rogue One.

Jyn Erso

Actress: Felicity Jones

Gin - main character Rogue One, recruited by Mon Mothma to lead the rebel squad. From the age of 15, Jean had to survive on her own, which contributed to the development of the heroine’s strong-willed character. Jean is not only well acquainted with the underworld of the galaxy, but for a long time she herself conducted activities that were not entirely consistent with the law. The Rebels are eager to enlist Jean's help as she is the daughter of Gallen Erso, the Imperial engineer who built the Death Star.

Cassian Andor

Cassian is a scout known for his ability to find a way out of the most difficult troubles. During the mission, Andor must “look after” Jyn Erso, of whose reliability the Resistance members are not entirely sure.

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It is known that it was Cassian Andor who reprogrammed the imperial droid K-2SO, turning him into an ally of the rebels.

Orson Krennic

Actor: Ben Mendelsohn

Orson Krennic is an ambitious careerist quickly climbing the administrative ladder of the Empire. His position is director of the latest military developments, and his task is to complete the construction of the Death Star as quickly as possible.

Under the command of Krennic is an elite unit of stormtroopers who pose a real threat to the rebels.

Chirrut Imwe

Actor: Donnie Yen

Rogue One is set in a time when few people remember the Jedi and the Force. However, Imwe is an exception: he firmly believes in the Force, and this allows him, despite his blindness, to become a skilled warrior and a valuable member of the Resistance. Chirrut - devoted friend another rebel - Baze Malbus.

Galen Erso

Actor: Mads Mikkelsen

Galen Erso is Jean's father and a brilliant scientist, without whom the Death Star would not have appeared.

K-2SO (Kay two)

Actor: Alan Tudyk

Not a single Star Wars movie would be complete without droid heroes. Rogue One is no exception. However, Kay-2 is different from the familiar R2-D2, C3-PO and BB-8.

“This is a former Imperial droid. He’s over six feet tall and always follows orders without question,” Alan Tudyk told Entertainment Weekly.

Kay-2 was once reprogrammed by Cassian Andor, and now the droid is infinitely devoted to his companion.

Bodhi Ruk

Actor: Riz Ahmed

A former Imperial pilot who voluntarily defected to the resistance and revealed important secrets of the Empire to the rebels.

Baze Malbus

Actor: Jiang Wen

Like Chirrut Imwe, Baze is a strong warrior, but unlike his friend, Malbus does not believe in the Force at all. His skepticism was the result of a hard life on the moon, occupied by the Galactic Empire.

So Guerrera

Actor: Forest Whitaker

Saw Gerrera's appearance in the film is a great gift for fans for several reasons. Firstly, this hero is already familiar to viewers of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Secondly, Guerrera appeared in season 5 of Star Wars Rebels, when the Jedi helped him save their planet from the Separatists. It is noteworthy that Guerrera is a conflicted character who is difficult to place on the “evil-good” scale.

By the time of Rogue One, Saw had become a veteran of the Resistance.

Mon Mothma

Actress: Genevieve O'Reilly

Mothma is the leader of the Rebel Alliance who first appeared in Return of the Jedi. Mon decides to recruit Jyn Erso to carry out a mission for the Resistance.

Darth Vader

Actor: James Earl Jones

This character needs no introduction. He is one of the most popular villains of all time. According to rumors, in Rogue One the director managed to create the darkest image of Vader of all the films in the franchise. Vader is also known to have Orson Krennic under his control.

The first Star Wars spin-off will be released in December. The film "Rogue One" will tell the story of a group of rebels who managed to steal the plans for the Death Star. Almost all of the team members are new characters that we have not encountered before. At the festival held in London Star Wars Celebration of the upcoming film has become one of the main topics. We managed to learn something new about the main characters of the film - including from the actors who play them.

Jyn Erso - a heroine without self-examination

The main character of the film is daring, impetuous and has broken the law more than once. The girl is used to acting alone and, helping the Rebels, will be working in a team for the first time. According to actress Felicity Jones, unlike Saga heroes like Luke and Ray, Jean does not question who she is and where her roots are. The girl already knows the answers to them, and this determines her motives and actions.

Galen Erso - scientist who can change the world

Little is known about Jean's father. He is played by Mads Mikkelsen. As the actor says, Galen Erso is an outstanding scientist who has created something beautiful that can change the galaxy.

In the teaser, shown only to Star Wars Celebration visitors, we see Jean as a child - she runs somewhere across a field. And then on the same planet they show stormtroopers against the backdrop of a burning house. We would venture to suggest that Jean has had a score to settle with the Empire since childhood, and her father’s invention is connected with the Death Star.

Cassian Andor - commander without a squad

The team tasked with stealing the Death Star plans will be led by Alliance Intelligence Captain Cassian Andor. He is famous for his composure and ability to carry out the most difficult tasks. At first, the squad consists only of Cassian, Jean and the droid - they will have to recruit the rest as the operation progresses.

K-2S0 - weirdo droid

Cassian's best friend is the former Imperial droid K-2SO (pronounced Kay-Too-Es-O), whom the captain personally reprogrammed. But the flashing did not go unnoticed and affected the behavior of the droid. Sometimes it seems as if he is not of this world. K-2SO does not hesitate to openly say what he thinks - even if it may offend the interlocutor.

Bodhi Rook - Former Imperial

K-2SO isn't the only one with an Imperial past. Pilot Bodhi Rook initially serves the Empire, although he does not like much of it. The Empire's actions on his home planet make Bodhi consider joining the rebels. True, Bodhi is a practical and slightly nervous person. He will have to muster all his courage to challenge the Empire.

Chirrut Imwe - the blind monk

Rogue One promises to be the first film in the saga where we won't see the Jedi. The action takes place in an era when the Order was wiped from the face of the galaxy. But there are those who believe in the Force, like the blind monk Chirrut Imwe. He himself does not control the Force, but shares the ideals of the Jedi and, despite his blindness, can give anyone heat in close combat. It’s no wonder that martial arts master Donnie Yen was cast in his role.

Baze Malbus is a spoiler teller!

Chirrut's best friend and partner is his complete opposite. Baze is a pragmatic man of action. He is not prone to long thoughts, does not believe in the Force, and in battle relies on his blaster.

It's hard to believe, but during a presentation at Celebration, actor Jiang Wen, who plays Blaze, made a slip that reveals one of the plot twists of the upcoming film.

The actor said that after the death of the hero Donnie Yen Blaze's behavior changes.

The presenter hastened to interrupt Wen, and the official recording of the presentation was not posted online. But the word spoken in front of a crowd of fans and journalists is certainly not a sparrow.

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The heroes of the future film look very interesting and colorful, and we can’t wait to see them in action. There's not much longer to wait.

On December 15, a new “Star Wars” will be released on Russian movie screens - not another film in another trilogy, but a separate story.

Once upon a time, in distant Galaxy... we won't wait for the usual rolling credits. Rogue One is not a film in a trilogy (any trilogy), it is a stand-alone story - the first, perhaps, of a collection of stories that cover individual episodes barely mentioned in the trilogies.

A New Hope begins with Darth Vader pursuing Princess Leia, who turns out to have the plans for the Death Star, the Empire's new planet-killing superweapon. But how did Leia get these plans? This is exactly what Rogue One is about.

A new set of heroes - although we will see a few old acquaintances; a new approach to old stories; and, of course, New Hope.

Gareth Edwards, who previously directed the low-budget “Monsters” and the high-budget “Godzilla,” is moving in the same direction of films about war: these are different aspects of it, but still war. For the entire franchise " Star wars“His Rogue One was the first film to focus specifically on war as such: on combat, reconnaissance, losses, the cost of human life and the cost of the idea that leads people into battle. Yes, there was a place for the Force, but it is not the main driving force here (forgive the tautology); the main strength is Hope.

Is this a deliberate reference to the films of the Second World War (up to Churchill’s speech “ We'll fight them on the beaches” in its visual form - they really are fighting on the beaches!) or accidental - but this is the first film in the franchise in which the emphasis is on “Wars”, and not on “Star”.

We just need one victory, one for all, we won’t stand up for the price.

Great movie, watch it - you won't regret it.

We will talk about the 11 heroes of the film (although in reality, as in any war film, there are many more heroes) - and how the preparation for the images went.

Jyn Erso

Jean is not some damsel in distress; Jean is independent, smart, tough and confident. Jean grew up in harsh conditions, and from childhood she knew what suffering and constant struggle were.

The daughter of Galen Erso, an imperial weapons designer, turns out to be equally needed by both the Empire and the Alliance - and will equally hide from both until circumstances force her to make a choice.

When it became known that Jean would become the main character of the new film, theories about who she could be poured out from a cornucopia. The mother of one of the heroes of Episode VII - say, Rey? Someone we know by another name: perhaps Jin is an alias?

It's not that theories don't have a right to exist - but Jean is interesting in her own right, and not just as a link to the main characters of other films. Jean - brave, desperate, harsh and at the same time very vulnerable - deserves to be interested in her as a person.

Many actresses were on the list of contenders for the main role. At some point, it seemed that it was enough to be an actress over 15 and under 60 to get on the list of contenders for the role compiled by the press. The names most often mentioned were Tatiana Maslany (“Children Black”), Olivia Cooke (“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “Ouija: The Devil’s Board”) and Gina Rodriguez (“Virgin”). But the role was given to petite Briton Felicity Jones, an Oscar nominee (“The Universe of Stephen Hawking”).

After the first trailer appeared, many saw Jean's resemblance to Katniss Everdeen (the stern, dark-haired main character who rebels against a tyrannical regime), but believe me, in fact the similarity is quite superficial. But yes, the girls had a hard time both there and there - Felicity, recalling the shooting, says that it was like “ spent seven months in the army».

Captain Cassian Andor

Alliance intelligence officer Andor only appears on the screen - and it immediately becomes clear that a person has a goal in life, and this goal is not to save every single human life. He is ready to make sacrifices, including human ones, for the sake of the victory of the Alliance. However, he is ready to sacrifice not only others - that’s the job! - but also by yourself, and all in the name of the future.

When the creators announced that Mexican actor Diego Luna would play one of the main roles in the film, they began to wonder who he might play - especially since it was already known that the main role went to Felicity Jones. The Internet has agreed that if Jean is a thief and a criminal, then Cassian may get the job of involving her in the tasks of the Alliance. Watch the film and find out whether those who built the theories were right.

Diego says that main feature What attracted him to Cassian was his dedication to ideas and lack of fear of getting his hands dirty. " Cassian is exactly the hero we all wish we could be.", adds the actor.

Diego Luna says that during filming he watched “Apocalypse of Our Days” every month to get into the right frame of mind and maintain that mood. A gloomy mood, I must say.

K-2SO

If Cassian is gloomy main character, then the reprogrammed imperial droid K-2SO, who often appeared with him in the frame, is endowed with quite a sense of humor. Yes, with a sense of gallows humor - but still; Someone must make jokes even in the most murderous situations, since this film did not get optimistic heroes like Han Solo or Poe Dameron?

The two-meter droid is played by Alan Tudyk - he is no stranger to it; in “I, Robot” he already played Sonny, a robot with quite a sense of humor. And Tudyk has also already controlled a spaceship - in the TV series “Firefly” he played Wash, the Serenity pilot.

In one of his interviews, Tudyk compared his hero to an old man - it seems like the behavior of the droid, resulting from reprogramming, is similar to the behavior of an elderly person among young people. Then another robot hero immediately comes to our minds, with whom we want to compare the new droid: this, of course, is the melancholic Marvin from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Compared to Marvin, however, K-2SO is the optimist of optimists!

Edwards says that " K-2SO is like taking Chewbacca and C-3PO and combining them into one hero».

Chirrut Imwe

Blind Chirrut is like going back to basics. Since A New Hope was a paraphrase of an Akira Kurosawa film, it is not surprising that its direct prequel also takes inspiration from Eastern cinema. Let's say Empire magazine calls Chirrut "cosmic Zatoichi" and his fighting style is "Power Fu" (similar to kung fu); I would like to see something like this in the Star Wars universe in the future.

Yes, yes, here he is - the bearer of the Force, but at the same time he is not a Jedi; The force has a place in the realistic world of total war, but it is only an element that gives hope to the heroes, and is by no means the main thing in the galaxy.

Chinese actor Donnie Yen, playing the role of Chirrut, endowed his hero not only with a desperately charming smile, but also with what seems to be the brightest sense of humor in the film.

Baze Malbus

Thanks to Chirrut and Baze, Rogue One gets a pair of bickering heroes who seem to be quite inspired by characters from Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress: we're, of course, talking about the peasants Tahei and Matashiti.

Chirrut's childhood friend does not use the Force, but quite an ordinary weapon, and assures that it is thanks to his help that the blind monk has not yet fallen in any battle.

Baze is played by Chinese actor Jiang Wen. Director Gareth Edward said that Jiang Wen had not seen a single film from the entire franchise - not only before the casting, but also until now, because Edwards begged the actor not to watch the films until the premiere.

Bodhi Ruk

An imperial cargo ship pilot who (the pilot, not the ship!) leaves service and joins the rebels—more precisely, Saw Guerrero. As the paranoid So and his entourage immediately begin to think, this is all a cunning plan of the Empire to infiltrate the rebels; you will see for yourself whether this is true or not.

Having tried on the role of a pilot, Riz Ahmed has already made a name for himself this year, having played the main role in the popular TV series “One Night”; Rogue One will hopefully allow him to cement his reputation as a great actor. Previously, you could see him in the film “Stringer”, where he played along with Jake Gyllenhall.

Unlike the previous hero, Riz Ahmed has grown up on Star Wars, and, in his words, “ I would be happy to at least serve tea on the set", just to be part of the film.

Gareth Edwards says that the character closest to him is Bodhi, because in the film he seems to say all the time “ how crazy is it, how did I even get here?».

Director Orson Krennic

Responsible for the creation of the Death Star, an imperial long-term construction project, where taxes from more than one planet clearly went, is forced not only to return the fugitive engineer (we were even shown this scene in one of the TV commercials), but also to manage the construction, and somehow try to make sure that bigger shots did not appropriate his laurels. After all, once the Death Star is operational (spoiler? no, it hasn't been a spoiler for 39 years), it will have to destroy planets, and that will cost a lot.

There were already villains with lightsabers and simply wielding the force, and here is a bureaucrat, albeit with practically unlimited (compared to the rebel!) capabilities.

The role went to Australian Ben Mendelsohn. You could see him in supporting roles in a large number of not the most high-profile (but excellent) projects: from “Casino Robbery” to “Due West”; He also has small roles in major films, including The Dark Knight Rises and Australia. This is the same person which you've definitely seen somewhere, and now, I would like to believe, it can be seen more and more often.

Edwards says that so far " Empire was kind of like the BBC, kind of like Oxbridge, right? And Ben and I wanted to show that Krennic is not someone who clearly built his career from the very bottom, but is extremely effective at what he does.”

Ben Mendelsohn talks about the same thing. “Krennic is not one of the Imperial aristocrats, he is a man who achieved his position through his skills. His weapon is an old blaster, because he's just an old soldier assigned to make sure everything is done right. And everything will be done. He's not Darth Vader, he doesn't use the Force; he just uses force.”

Galen Erso

In just two months, we've seen Mads Mikkelsen in two of Disney's biggest franchises - first in the world of Marvel (in the movie Doctor Strange) and now in Star Wars. " To be in the same frame with Darth Vader is something incredible, like being together with James Bond.", says Mikkelsen (yes, he was also in the picture with James Bond, we remember!).

Galen Erso is Jyn's father, the same scientist that Director Krennic really wants to return to work on the Death Star.

Mads Mikkelsen says that " in some places it seemed like we were making a small film, very realistic, like the ones I film in Denmark. Gareth is that kind of guy, he needs realism».

So Guerrera

A rebel who is considered a terrorist even by members of the Alliance; a man who decided to resist the Empire only and exclusively through violence and does not shy away from extreme measures. Saw Gerrera is a legendary figure in the Alliance, and it is he who is the thread that will lead Jyn Erso to the rebels.

So Guerrero is a character we have already seen in the world of Star Wars, namely in the Clone Wars series. He knew both Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi; he is the bridge between the prequel trilogy and the new film.

Oscar winner Forest Whitaker was Gareth Edwards' first choice for the role - and Whitaker accepted.

Kathleen Kennedy, the film's producer, regrets that " We weren't able to use Co as much as we would have liked" However, even in the few scenes where Seo is, he will impress you - and be remembered for a long time.

Governor Tarkin

If Saw Gerrera was the link between the prequel trilogy and the new film, then Governor Tarkin is the bridge between the new film and A New Hope. Along with another big man in the Empire - namely Darth Vader, who, of course, will also appear, albeit briefly - he will try to suppress the aggression of the Alliance.

In the original trilogy, Tarkin was played by British horror film legend Peter Cushing; unfortunately, the actor died in 1994.

We will not show you Tarkin in the new film. Let's just say that you will definitely be surprised.

Despite the slight rocking, board 0608 falls asleep almost immediately. We need to regain our strength; it’s not every day that you have to attack an imperial base with a small force. Bodhi walks around the sparse makeshift bedding and settles into the uncomfortable pilot's seat. Neither stretch his legs, nor lean back at all, but there is no choice - this is his assigned place, and he may not be the first pilot of the Galaxy, but he’s still worth something, so he proves it in every possible way time after time. once. As if this night is an exception... Staring into the empty space of space in front of you is still entertainment, and Bodhi turns his gaze to the sleeping squad of suicide volunteers. Jin twitches in his sleep and wheezes something, but he does not dare to wake her, after all, such a dream is better than no sleep at all. He is not at all sure that Chirrut is sleeping, perhaps this is another meditation to help him search for Power in himself, but what difference does it make? Apparently, out of the entire motley composition of the “mission,” he is the only one awake. The gaze returns to the blackness in the windshield of the shuttle just in time - the pitching begins to intensify. Hyperspace almost spits out the crew while Bodhi tries to sort everything out so that the sudden jump does not in any way affect the internal state of the ship. A small meteor shower isn't much of a problem, but some particularly large fragments hit the shuttle's skin so hard that the engines have to be set to low thrust to avoid damaging anything. Apparently, we will have to wait a little before our arrival - as long as there is this obstacle on the way, it is not safe to return to hyperspace. Bodhi only realizes he's not alone when there's a discreet cough behind him. From surprise, he almost jumps on the spot and turns around too sharply, immediately rubbing his strained neck. For some reason, Cassian is not sleeping either, he stands there, leaning against a box with some small combat items and crossing his arms over his chest, and silently watches as Bodhi rises from his seat. “Sit,” he finally says, pushing Bodhi back into his seat by the shoulder, and sits down in the co-pilot’s seat. – Can’t sleep? “Meteor shower,” Bodhi nods to the “weather” behind the glass. However, this is not required; Cassian probably feels the periodic rather strong shocks just fine without it. “You haven’t slept before, I saw.” Are you worried? – Cassian, as usual, is completely shameless and asks unnecessary questions. Bodhi just smiles awkwardly at this and shrugs, peering into the darkness of the space behind the glass. – It’s just... Isn’t it too late? Is it too late for me to take this path? – for some reason, telling the truth seems so necessary now. As if there won't be any more opportunities. “I delivered so much cargo to the orbital station, so many tons of kyber for the construction of the Death Star reactor, that... It’s all my fault, right? “Bodhi thinks too much, and that’s what keeps him from falling asleep on this long, almost endless night. Not at all nervous about the next hard day, as Cassian thinks. “Not yours,” Andor seems to have some kind of firm confidence in what he says. – There were hundreds, thousands of you. And I’m almost sure that most of you didn’t even know what exactly all the building materials that you delivered from the planets were used for. Stop scolding yourself, you have already repaid the Alliance enough for us to believe that you are here with us forever,” Cassian closes his eyes tiredly. He would be glad to fall asleep, but the heavy thought of the distant “tomorrow” gnaws at him. Bodhi blinks a couple of times in confusion, looking first at the man next to him and then back into space. From whom, from whom, and from him, he certainly did not expect such words. “It’s never too late to get off the wrong path, the main thing is to do it at all,” he sums up, as if reading Bodhi’s thoughts, without even opening his eyes. – But... – Without a “but”, Bodhi, you are a rebel and will remain one, be kind, don’t bother yourself about unnecessary things, there are more important things to do... – Cassian opens his drooping eyes and shrugs his shoulders – coolly. In cargo shuttles, climate control is at the lowest level; the Empire, of course, did not worry about how the pilots in them would survive in outer space , relying on the power of hyperspace. - Yes, sure. Tomorrow is a difficult day and... “And not many will come out alive,” Cassian finishes for him, catching a slight hesitation. - Yes, that’s what I wanted... - Is someone waiting for you, Bodhi? – Cassian interrupts, doesn’t let him finish, “shoots” right in the forehead, making the pilot shudder. - There, on Jedha. You're from there, right? “Yes, but... No,” Bodhi exhales quietly, pressing his suddenly sweaty palms between his knees and looking away. “No one is waiting for me,” he adds quietly. “Jin may think that those who have nothing to lose fight best, but I think those who have something to fight for go all the way.” And for whom? Bodhi,” Cassian calls his name again, urging him to turn around, look into his eyes, do at least something to get out of this cocoon of thoughts in which he wraps himself from minute to minute. “Look at me,” he lightly touches the open wrist and immediately withdraws his hand when the pilot finally turns. “I have no one to fight for.” For the millions of lives that the Empire has not yet managed to destroy, perhaps, and more... - Bodhi seems to shrug his shoulders indifferently, and the Mustafar fire inside himself burns at least some pleasant thoughts. - That's not it. It's not the same. Not a million people can compare with just one person for whom you would do anything, right? – Cassian stubbornly hints at something, and Bodhi either pretends that he doesn’t understand, or he really just doesn’t understand the subtle meaning of this comparison. He shrugs again, staring somewhere over Cassian's shoulder. And he would have remained in this peculiar trance of his, only Andor quickly pulls his palms out of the captivity of his knees and squeezes them in his own. “We’ll soon go into hyper…” Bodhi begins, nervously twitching to the side, trying to escape, but Cassian doesn’t yield. He moves closer, almost pinching Ruk in his pilot’s seat, and adds: “No one is waiting for me either,” his eyes feverishly scan the man’s dark face. And at some point he gets so close that he can see the fine wrinkles in the corners of Bodhi’s eyes. The pilot exhales intensely, barely forcing himself to look at the man, and then reflexively closes his eyes when his lips are carefully and softly touched by someone else’s lips. There is no thought that this is wrong. When you go to war, this concept disappears altogether, along with many other everyday ones. Bodhi doesn't respond, but he doesn't push Cassian away either, simply accepting the fact that this is happening. And when it's all over, maybe after a couple of seconds, or maybe after an hour, he opens his eyes and finally understands what Andor meant. And it's not about the kiss. In relation. “And you’re here... Excuse me,” Kay-Tu seems to be embarrassed for the first time in the entire existence of his droid brains. And I myself am surprised by this. “I... yes, however...” Cassian is no less surprised by the fact that this creature ran out of vocabulary at this very moment. “I’ll go, yes...” the droid, who appeared at the door at the wrong time, shifts from foot to foot and blinks the white lights of his eyes. “No need, Kay-Tussaud, we’re... done,” Cassian smiles a little wryly, lightly pats Bodhi on the knee and rises to his feet. – The meteor shower seems to have ended. Go to hyperspace,” he gives the final instructions. “See you on Scarif,” he smiles from the corner of his lips only at the pilot, ruffles his hair tied in a knot at the back of his head and goes to his sleeping place. Now he should fall asleep. One item can be crossed off the list of concerns, but the rest will not go away. The war won't go away as long as the damn Death Star hangs over their heads. “Yes, Kay-Tu, calculate the coordinates and time of arrival,” Bodhi mutters, still looking somewhere into space, and then shudders, shakes himself and reaches for the buttons, checking the condition of the trim on the instruments. He licks his lips and agrees that it’s true, all this is true - it’s better to fight for someone specific than for a million unknown people. And Bodhi will fight. He hasn’t figured it out yet, when this battle ends, he will definitely ask Cassian what it was. And it will require supplements to taste it. He will definitely ask. As soon as the battle is over. Now that there is something to fight for. “Into hyperspace, Kay-Too,” Bodhi says, smiling. He hears a dissatisfied “people” from the droid and only smiles more. See you on Scarif.

oh kiss me one more time before the sun goes down and all the creatures of the night crawling over this town

Characters and equipment in

Website Jedi Bibliothek unexpectedly found interesting information in catalogs Edelweiss about the first spin-off" ANDrogue one. Star Wars Tales".

This is not just about some rumors. Several pages of the upcoming guide, called “Rogue One: The Official Visual Story Guide,” have been published on the site. At the moment, these photos are no longer on the Edelweiss website, since Disney asked them to be removed, but due to this error (if it was an accident, of course) all published pages have already leaked to the network.

The following may contain some spoilers for the film itself, so unless you want to know something in advance, it is better to refrain from further information.

The cover of this book itself shows us a familiar team assembled, including a first look at the droid played by Alan Tudyk (more on that below).

Now we know the names of the remaining main characters in the film:

• Jyn Erso(Felicity Jones) - we have known the name of this character for a long time, it was officially confirmed in the trailer. Felicity plays a gifted soldier and warrior.
• Captain Cassian Andor(Diego Luna) - initially, there was a rumor that the character's name was Cassein Willix, but in the end it turned out to be partially true and the character was named Cassian Andor. Diego Luna plays one of the Rebel officers.
• Baze(Jiang Wen) - the famous Chinese actor will play an assassin.
• K-250(Alan Tudyk) - the American actor played the role of an imperial battle droid who joined the Rebels. Modern CGI technologies will help Tudyk play this role.
• Bodhi(Riz Ahmed) - The fact that the Pakistani actor will play a character named Bodhi Rook became known back in November last year when BBC journalist Lizo Mzimba tweeted about it. Ahmed will play one of the Rebel soldiers.
• Chirrut(Donnie Yen) - written in English as Chirrut. Another Chinese actor will play a spiritual warrior.
• Pao(Pao) and Bistan (Bistan) - characterized as ferocious warriors. They will also apparently be featured in the film using CGI technology. Or they will be characters entirely created and animated using modern computer technology.

Next photo gives us a more detailed look at the new Imperial tank called the Imperial Hover Tank.

Also in this photo we can see a new type of attack aircraft, which will apparently control these formidable weapons.

But the next page shows a new type of Empire fighter called The TIE Striker.

This photo is very reminiscent of old concept art that was leaked online a long time ago. This is the concept we expected to see in the film." Star Wars: The Force Awakens", but he was not there. The assumption immediately arose that he might appear in " Rogue One", which is most likely what will happen.

Since the Empire got a new fighter, why not the Rebels? new look. Looks like it's called a U-Wing.

The next photo shows an already familiar, and in my opinion very clumsy, type of weaponry of the Empire - the AT-AT walker in a new version, which will be called AT-ACT. There was a rumor about this back in January of this year.

In the first trailer for the film, we can see this walker at the very end. We will be able to assess how good he will be in December of this year.

The next page shows us those who will try to protect the Empire from the Rebel attack.

First of all, you should pay attention to the character of Ben Mendelsohn. This Director Krennic. He is one of the Imperial military leaders who will ensure that the Rebels are not able to steal the plans for the first Death Star. Also in this photo we see another new type of attack aircraft called " Death Troopers", which were shown in the trailer. For the first time, in August last year, Donnie Yen published the first photo of the helmets of these stormtroopers, so their appearance did not come as a surprise.

The following photo allows you to take a closer look at the battle droid K-250.

The last photo shows us the heroes and villains of the film. Naturally in the spotlight Darth Vader.

The appearance of the Dark Lord of the Sith in this photo seems to be another confirmation that we will finally see him again Darth Vader on big screens. It is possible that the latter photo will be the basis for the official poster featuring the image.