Director Gareth Edwards unveiled the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story poster which features all the new key Star Wars players plus one very familiar face lurking in the background. The poster arrives one day before what will be the release of the final trailer for the Star Wars standalone film starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen, and Forest Whitaker. The upcoming Star Wars movie is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur, and Simon Emanuel, and executive produced by John Knoll and Jason McGatlin.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will open in theaters on December 16, 2016.
The Plot: From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.