Rogue One - A Star Wars Story Trailer
It’s always a tall order that the first Star Wars Anthology film would have much to live up to following The Force Awakens.
Rumours of reshoots and the film’s composer bowing out have had fans concerned the new spin off will be a bit muddled.
With a nervous industry all round following news of Paramount Pictures’ predicted loss of $500 million in the fiscal year, Disney aren’t being overly optimistic.
The House of Mouse’s CEO, Bob Iger issued a warning to shareholders concerning the new Star Wars film…
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Iger has played down Rogue One’s release as an “experimental project”.
He said: “We never felt it would do the level that Force Awakens did.”
However Iger added: “The level of interest [in Rogue One] is as high as it was for Force Awakens.”
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is currently the third highest grossing film of all time, just behind James Cameron’s Avatar and Titanic.
It made a whopping $2 billion (£1.5 billion) worldwide, being just one of three films to cross that second billion dollar barrier.
Rogue One: A Story Wars Story is set in between Revenge of the Sith (Episode III) and A New Hope (Episode IV), at a time when Darth Vader is consolidating his power over the Galactic Empire.
The plot depicts the efforts of the Rebel Alliance to steal the Death Star’s plans, an action that was referenced to in 1977’s A New Hope.
Director Gareth Edwards, who recently made the Godzilla reboot, says that Rogue One feel will like a war film.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is released in UK cinemas on December 16, 2016.