Category Archives: Rogue One

Sideshow Announces First Rogue One: A Star Wars Story™ Premium Format™ Figure

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Sideshow is pleased to introduce the next statue in our ever expanding line of Star Wars™ Premium Format Figures line-up – The Death Trooper Specialist™.

This marks Sideshow’s first offering for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – coming to theaters on December 16, 2016.

Masterfully crafted to be movie-accurate, this elite soldier of Director Krennic™ is kitted out in specialized Stormtrooper™ armor which features:

  • Three-cell pouch located on the left shoulder
  • Fabric pauldron on the right shoulder
  • Reinforced helmet with composite armor

The Death Trooper Specialist’s armor sits atop a detailed body suit and is accented by a fabric tactical chest rig that holds sculpted grenades and other accessories – including a thermal detonator.

Rounding out the Death Trooper Specialist’s armament is a blaster and a side arm blaster pistol.  The Sideshow Exclusive Death Trooper Specialist Premium Format Figure also includes a modified DLT-19 blaster rifle.

All of this is paired with an environmental base modeled after the ground of a planet far, far away. Click Here or below to Pre-Order!

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First Look: Jyn Erso Toys From ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ at EW

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Via www.ew.com:

Last year, The Force Awakens revealed its merchandizing blitz with “Force Friday,” but for the upcoming Rogue One, we’re getting our reveal of new Star Wars toys throughout the month of September. First up, EW has an exclusive look at some of the new figurines for Jyn Erso, the Rebel sergeant played by Felicity Jones, who is tasked in the film with stealing the plans for the original Death Star. As you can see, she comes in many shapes and sizes… 

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Nissan’s Star Wars Promotion

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Via Autonews.com:

Nissan has gone Rogue.

The automaker is partnering with Lucasfilm in a promotional campaign supporting Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which hits theaters Dec. 16.

Duracell, General Mills, Gillette and Verizon also have signed on. Each of the five companies will “complement the tempo and tenor of the overall marketing campaign of this first-ever standalone Star Wars story,” according to a statement today announcing the deals.

The sponsorship would seem like a natural for Nissan, which has been enjoying strong U.S. sales of its Rogue compact crossover, its second-best nameplate behind the Altima so far this year. A Nissan spokeswoman confirmed the Rogue would be the centerpiece of the automaker’s Star Wars campaign. The Rogue’s U.S. sales surged 13.5 percent to 182,181 deliveries this year through July, which was third in the segment behind the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V. It was Nissan’s top-selling U.S. nameplate in July.

“There are exciting synergies with the film and the Nissan Rogue, our top-selling vehicle in the U.S. and Canada,” Jeremy Tucker, Nissan’s vice of president of North American marketing, said in a statement. “We will announce more news this September on a number of highly-visible integration activities for Nissan and the upcoming film.”

FCA campaign

Nissan isn’t the first automaker to align with a Star Wars movie.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles teamed with Lucasfilm last year for a global campaign around Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Dodge, Chrysler, Ram, Fiat and Jeep each had their own Star Wars-themed ads.

FCA leveraged its Stars Wars alignment to push its end-of-year sales event in a Tier 2 effort.

FCA marketing boss Olivier Francois told Automotive News during the Detroit auto show in January that the December ad push around Star Wars: The Force Awakens was perfect for a Tier 2 campaign.

Francois said Star Wars is “almost too big and too universal” to be tied to a single brand.

Last September, Dodge deployed eight Chargers wrapped in Stormtrooper decals to New York City for a Hot Wheels promotion with Uber on “Force Friday.” The Stormtrooper Chargers were inspired by the Hot Wheels Stormtrooper toy cruiser.

The collaboration with Hot Wheels and Uber wasn’t part of FCA’s promotional partnership with Lucasfilm.

Then, during the Los Angeles Auto Show in November, Fiat displayed a custom-painted 500e Stormtrooper, which the automaker says was inspired by the armor of the First Order Legion.

Francois said Star Wars is “a universal pop culture moment.”

Dying Star Wars Fan’s Campaign To See Rogue One

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Via Cinemablend.com:

Star Wars fans are a passionate bunch, to say the least. Now, one terminally ill fan is hoping to use that passion to convince Lucasfilm to let him see the newest film before it is released. There’s now a pretty good chance that the studio will hear his plea, as Mark Hamill himself has made sure that over one million have heard the story.

Neil Hanvey was told back in April that he had eight months to live. This would mean that he might not make it to December, to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story when it’s released December 16. This has led his wife Andrea, and a hospice worker named Amy Duncan, to try and get Neil’s story to go viral with the hashtag #RogueOneWish. The hope is that they can get enough support to convince Lucasfilm to let Neil see the new movie early since he may not have a chance to see it otherwise. Now, The Wrap is reporting that Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, has picked up the cause as he retweeted the story to his over 1 million Twitter followers. Hamill isn’t the only one to amplify the signal. The story has also been picked up by a major Star Wars podcast, and it was even tweeted out by somebody at the starting line of a bike race during the Olympics.

Part of the reason for this campaign is likely the fact that it has worked before. Last year, the wife of Daniel Fleetwood started a similar campaign to get her husband an opportunity to see Star Wars The Force Awakens prior to its release. He was shown the film in November alongside his family and passed away not long after. That campaign was also picked up by numerous people within the Star Wars franchise, including Mark Hamill, so it’s possible that his support here could also go a long way toward making this happen as well.

While most Star Wars fans simply have to deal with a wait that might seem interminable, the fact is that the vast majority of us will still get to see the movie eventually, even if it feels like we’ve already been waiting forever. The idea that some may never get the opportunity unless help is given is a terrible one to contemplate. We’re sure there are far more people who will never have the chance to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We wish there was a way they could all get that chance.

We’ll keep our eyes on this one and see if Lucasfilm makes any official comment. We’re holding out hope that Neil Hanvey will be able to take one final trip to that galaxy far, far, away. The rest of will be right behind him.

Empire’s First Cover For Rogue One

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Via Empireonline.com:

We’re heading back to a galaxy far, far away this Christmas, and Empire could hardly let a new Star Wars movie slip past without letting it grace our cover. So here it is: the first of our Rogue One covers, in all its rebellious glory (as first revealed exclusively by the Star Wars UK Twitter feed).

The cover features the team of rebels tasked with stealing the Death Star plans from the Imperial Military. Pictured on our cover (from left to right): Donnie Yen as Chirrut Imwe; Jiang Wen as Baze Malbus; Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso; Diego Luna as Cassian Andor; and Riz Ahmed as Bodhi Rook. The big droid at the back is Alan Tudyk, on motion-capture duties as K-2SO.

But wait! The circle is not yet complete… This is just the first of our Rogue One covers to be revealed. A second, alternate cover will debut tomorrow (Friday 19th) at 5pm; the exclusive limited edition subscribers cover to be unveiled on Monday. Keep your eyes peeled for those.

Featuring unprecedented on-set access to director Gareth Edwards and his crew, the Rogue One issue of Empire goes on sale Thursday August 25, available in all good and Imperial-affiliated newsagents. Subscribers will be receiving theirs a few days earlier – one of many reasons why it’s worth subscribing to Empire. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, meanwhile, blasts into cinemas from December 16.

Star Wars: Rogue One Toys Popping Up

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Paul from idlehands1.blogspot.com reports in!

December 16th is still a bit of a ways off. Usually, toys for a giant blockbuster movie hit 1-2 months prior to the film’s premiere, but during that lead up to the dreaded on-shelf date, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!! Today, it happened across the water and came from an anonymous source we love and now call brother. Today…we get a look at some new vehicles from Hasbro’s Star Wars: Rogue One toy line!

Say hello to the Tie Striker and Rebel U-Wing Fighter! We are told the Nerf blaster bits come off the vehicles, perhaps due to endless jokes about the Millennium Falcon’s “Hot Dog Gun” for the Episode 7 line. Perhaps. Expect these in September when Force Friday arrives once again

Click below to head over to IdleHands and check them out!

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY TRAILER

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Via Starwars.com:

WE ARE WITH ROGUE ONE. ALL THE WAY.

We gave them 2 minutes. They gave us a galaxy in need of hope.

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 Star Wars: A New Hope‘s opening crawl, 1977

Now, nearly 40 years later, that battle (and the events preceding it) will at last be shown in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We’ve gotten a teaser trailer and a sizzle reel, but during last night’s Olympic Games we were finally given a longer trailer focusing on the heroes and villains about to fill in some of the unexplored parts of the Star Wars saga.

Here are nine aspects that have made me a repeat viewer.

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Felicity Jones On Women In The Rebellion

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Via Ew.com:

With the new Rogue One trailer dropping Thursday night, Entertainment Weekly has been posting a week of new stories about the upcoming stand-alone Star Wars film. Here’s part five.

It was a meeting at dawn in hushed restaurant when Felicity Jones found herself recruited for a covert mission.

Director Gareth Edwards (previously best known for Godzilla) had recently signed on to make Rogue One, the first Star Wars stand-alone film about the Rebel soldiers who steal the original Death Star blueprints, and he was considering her as the big sister to lead this band of brothers.

“We were both working at the time and we met at something like 5:30 a.m. in a hotel restaurant,” Jones recalls. “Most of the meeting was conducted in whispers as he explained the story and the character. My first introduction was definitely one shrouded in secrecy and being very careful no one overheard what we were talking about.”

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One Way Star Wars: Rogue One Will Differ From The Original Trilogy

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Via Cinemablend.com:

We’re about to see the Star Wars franchise delve into some seriously unprecedented territory. With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the series will veer away from the drama of the Skywalker family and give fans something entirely new. It’s an exciting prospect, but we still don’t know how the upcoming standalone film will set itself apart from the original trilogy. As it turns out, Rogue One actor Riz Ahmed has just opened up regarding the answer to that pressing question. He said:

“The feel of this film is quite rough and ready, and so is the mission and so are the characters, and so is the coming together of the characters. So the idea of people having special ships that they spit-shine and say, ‘Hey, this is my ship called the XYZ,’ that’s not of this world. This world is more about ‘Grab what you can, and let’s roll.’ Everyone in this Star Wars movie has got quite a complex past. They have a lot of baggage and history to it. That’s part of what makes it an interesting, nuanced movie. It’s taking characters with interesting backgrounds, whether it’s warrior monks, or ex-assassins, or long-distance truck drivers, and you’re assembling this pack of misfits.”

During a recent interview with EW, Rogue One actor Riz Ahmed gave the above statement to highlight the fundamental differences between the first Star Wars anthology film and the trilogy films. The film doesn’t feature a Millennium Falcon or unique trademark weapon for each of the characters. Rogue One’s ensemble, as well as their equipment, feels much more cobbled together and far more complex than any Star Wars narrative to date. He uses the word “rough,” which definitely hammers home the dark and gritty style that we have seen from much of the film’s marketing materials.

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