Cool New ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Promo Art and Character Details
Update: Images of the book have been removed at the request of Disney. It was an unintentional leak.
If you're excited about director Gareth Edward's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I've got some cool new stuff from the film to share with you today! There's a new visual guide book being released for the film called Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: The Official Visual Story Guide and a 10-page preview was released in the Edelweiss catalog (via /Film).
This preview offers us some great new promotional art for the movie, which includes new images of several of the hero and villain characters in the film. It also gives us the full names of these characters along with a brief description of each one. It also offers us our first look at the droid character being played by Alan Tudyk, which you can see above in the image with the rest of the team. There are also a couple alien characters who will be a part of the Rogue One team that I wasn't prevously aware of.
- Felicity Jones plays Jyn Erso , a highly skilled soldier and warrior.
- Diego Luna plays Captain Cassian Andor , an officer in the Rebel Alliance.
- Jiang Wen plays Baze, a freelance assassin.
- Riz Ahmed plays Bodhi, a rebel soldier.
- Unknown actor plays Pao , an alien who is described as a “fierce warrior”.
- Donnie Yen plays Chirrut, who is described as “a spiritual warrior.”
- Unknown actor plays Bistan, who is also described as “fierce warrior”.
It was also revealed that Ben Mendelsohn will play a villain named Director Krennic, who is described as a military adviser for the Empire. It is also confirmed that the black Stormtroopers are officially known as Death Troopers.
Tudyk's character is described as an imperial model K-250 enforcer droid. He is a former Empire security droid who ends up joining the film’s rebel fighting team on their mission.