


Alexandre Desplat, and not John Williams, will write the score for Rogue One. We don't know the film's main antagonist yet, but it's been reported that Darth Vader will make some sort of appearance in the film. Tudyk will play a mo-cap character. In addition, Jonathan Aris (BBC's Sherlock, The World's End) might have a role in the film. Mendelsohn is expected to play a villain. Jones stars as a Resistance soldier, and Ahmed and Luna will play Resistance characters as well. We've since heard rumblings that the second Star Wars Anthology film (the one Josh Trank was previously attached to) would've focused on bounty hunter Boba Fett, and it seems (for now) we may have been wrong about the bounty hunter part of our report (more on that later). During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet." – from the opening crawl of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope "Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. The films will instead be released under the "A Star Wars Story" banner. The film marks a change in Disney and Lucasfilm's classification of the standalone spin-off movies as Star Wars Anthology films, announced at Star Wars Celebration. The press release gave us this info about the cast: The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008's Oscar-winning Milk and 2013's Elysium Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award-winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically-acclaimed Lee Daniels' The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance-capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon-to-be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA-winning film Four Lions. Left to Right: Actors Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Felicity Jones, Jiang Wen and Donnie Yen.
