Set Pics From ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Reveal a Crashed Ship, Stormtroopers, and More
Gareth Edwards' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is shaping up to be the perfect compromise between what I want as a fan (brand new stories in the Star Wars universe untethered to previous films) and what Disney likely wants as a studio (some sort of marketable connection to the films that have come before in order to draw more people in). Maybe one day we'll get to the point when we're seeing one-off movies that are completely original and set on the other side of the galaxy from Luke, Han, Leia, and the events of the three trilogies. But in the meantime, the idea of a war movie centering on a band of rebel soldiers stealing the plans for the Death Star without the help of any Jedi sounds like a great step in the right direction.
Rogue One has been filming for a little while now, and now some new set photos have made their way online (via TMZ) that reveal a crashed ship, what looks like dead Stormtroopers, and some members of the cast standing out in front of the shield generator we saw on Endor in Return of the Jedi. Take a look in the imgur gallery below: