May the Force Live Long and Prosper!!!
Posted on 08/15/2015 6:15:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Diego Luna...; Ben Mendelsohn...; Forest Whitaker...; Mads Mikkelsen ...); Hong Kong action star and martial artist Donnie Yen; Jiang Wen...;Riz Ahmed..., and Alan Tudyk... who will give life to a motion-capture character.
The movie focuses on a story hinted at in the original 1977 Star Wars film... Someone stole the Empire’s plans for the Death Star, which is why Darth Vader intercepted Princess Leia’s ship on its “diplomatic mission” in the first scene of that movie.
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The idea for Rogue One was proposed by John Knoll, a visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic, and multiple Oscar nominee who won for the effects in 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
Knoll is executive producing the film along with Allison Shearmur (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Cinderella), Simon Emanuel (The Dark Knight Rises, Fast & Furious 6) and Jason McGatlin (Tintin, War of the Worlds).
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The look and feel of the movie can be guessed from the crew Edwards has assembled:
Cinematographer Greig Fraser, best known for Zero Dark Thirty, Foxcatcher, and Bright Star, is known for capturing the beauty in harrowing circumstances.
The special effects supervisor is Neil Corbould, who unleashed hell in Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and Saving Private Ryan.
Production designers will be Star Wars and Lucasfilm vet Doug Chiang, who worked on the Star Wars prequels and Forrest Gump, and Neil Lamont, the supervising art director for the Harry Potter films and Edge of Tomorrow.
Stunt coordinator Rob Inch (World War Z, Captain America: The First Avenger) will be throwing bodies through the air with crunching, dizzying effect.
Assorted creatures will be crafted by Neal Scanlan (Prometheus) who did the same for The Force Awakens.
Rogue One is slated to arrive in theaters on Dec. 16, 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at ew.com ...
I think the new (human) characters in Stars Wars are too soft looking like the last 3 Star Wars movies. Bland looking.
Fantastic 4 had the same problem among other problems.
The new Star Wars will do well because people want to see the old actors from the original 3 movies from last century.
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