In 2003, visual effects supervisor John Knoll offered an episode to Star Wars: Underworld, a television series that never went into production. He put the story forward again as a film once Disney had bought Lucasfilm in 2012, and the film reached American cinemas on 16 December 2016. Knoll shares the story credit with Gary Whitta, while Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy wrote the screenplay.
Gareth Edwards approached it as a war film, without the opening crawl or the transitional screen wipes of the main saga. Greig Fraser shot it on Arri Alexa 65 cameras with Ultra Panavision 70 lenses, and two performers were digitally recreated: Peter Cushing as Tarkin, Carrie Fisher as Leia. Michael Giacchino had four and a half weeks to write the score, after Alexandre Desplat withdrew over a scheduling conflict.
Research scientist Galen Erso is hiding with his family on the planet Lah'mu when Orson Krennic, the Empire's director of advanced weapons research, comes to press him into finishing the Death Star. Years later his daughter Jyn sits in Imperial custody for her own crimes, until the Rebel Alliance frees her to help steal the plans, a week before the events of Star Wars.
Felicity Jones plays Jyn and Diego Luna the rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor, while Alan Tudyk voices K-2SO, an Imperial enforcer droid reprogrammed to serve the Rebellion. The crew takes in a defecting cargo pilot, a blind believer in the Force who is neither Jedi nor Sith, and his old companion turned mercenary. Forest Whitaker plays Saw Gerrera, who mentored Jyn as a child.
Common Sense Media puts it at eleven and up and points to a high body count, major characters included; the American certificate is PG-13, for extended sequences of sci-fi violence and action. It runs 134 minutes. France saw it on 14 December 2016, rated for all audiences and dubbed at Dubbing Brothers, Germany a day later with an FSK 12 certificate, and Spain as Rogue One: una historia de Star Wars, ICAA 7.
In 2003, visual effects supervisor John Knoll offered an episode to Star Wars: Underworld, a television series that never went into production. He put the story forward again as a film once Disney had bought Lucasfilm in 2012, and the film reached American cinemas on 16 December 2016. Knoll shares the story credit with Gary Whitta, while Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy wrote the screenplay.
Gareth Edwards approached it as a war film, without the opening crawl or the transitional screen wipes of the main saga. Greig Fraser shot it on Arri Alexa 65 cameras with Ultra Panavision 70 lenses, and two performers were digitally recreated: Peter Cushing as Tarkin, Carrie Fisher as Leia. Michael Giacchino had four and a half weeks to write the score, after Alexandre Desplat withdrew over a scheduling conflict.
Research scientist Galen Erso is hiding with his family on the planet Lah'mu when Orson Krennic, the Empire's director of advanced weapons research, comes to press him into finishing the Death Star. Years later his daughter Jyn sits in Imperial custody for her own crimes, until the Rebel Alliance frees her to help steal the plans, a week before the events of Star Wars.
Felicity Jones plays Jyn and Diego Luna the rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor, while Alan Tudyk voices K-2SO, an Imperial enforcer droid reprogrammed to serve the Rebellion. The crew takes in a defecting cargo pilot, a blind believer in the Force who is neither Jedi nor Sith, and his old companion turned mercenary. Forest Whitaker plays Saw Gerrera, who mentored Jyn as a child.
Common Sense Media puts it at eleven and up and points to a high body count, major characters included; the American certificate is PG-13, for extended sequences of sci-fi violence and action. It runs 134 minutes. France saw it on 14 December 2016, rated for all audiences and dubbed at Dubbing Brothers, Germany a day later with an FSK 12 certificate, and Spain as Rogue One: una historia de Star Wars, ICAA 7.
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