Weapons engineer Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) is conscripted by Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendehlson) to assist the Galactic Empire in the development of the Death Star. Galen's wife, Lyra, is killed by Krennic, while their daughter, Jyn, becomes a fugitive and is rescued by Galen's old friend, Resistance fighter Saw Guerrera (Forest Whitaker).
Years later, Jyn (Felicity Jones) has become a criminal and is rescued from an Imperial detention facility on planet Wobani by Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), a member of the Rebel Alliance, and K2S0 (Alan Tuddyk), a reprogrammed Imperial droid. They escort her to the Rebel Alliance's base of operations on Yavin IV, where their leader, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly), reveals that Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed), a Rebel spy in the Galactic Empire, has been captured by Guerrera while transporting vital information about the Death Star. The Rebels need Jyn to negotiate with Guerrera for Rook's release.
Arriving on planet Jedha, Jyn and Andor are ambushed by Stormtroopers and rescued by blind monk Chirrut Imwe (Donnie Yen) and freelance assassin Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen) before being captured by Guerrera and his men and taken to Rook, who reveals that Galen designed the Death Star with a fatal flaw, an unprotected exhaust port.
Krennic locates Rook and uses the Death Star to fire at Jedha, creating a chain reaction that destroys the entire planet. Jyn, Andor, Rook, Imwe, Malbus and K2S0 escapes while Guerrera stays behind to die with his men.
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Andor reports to the Rebel leaders that Galen is stationed on planet Eadu. Arriving there, the group watches as Galen reveals himself as the traitor to prevent Krennic from executing the other engineers. Jyn breaks into the facility to rescue him, but Galen is fatally injured in a Rebel bombing, while Krennic escapes. With his dying breath, Galen tells Jyn that the Death Star's plans are hidden on a fortress on planet Scarif.
Returning to Yavin IV, the Rebel leaders debate on how to proceed. Jyn urges them to steal the plans from Scarif, but they believe it to be a suicide mission and reject her proposal. Jyn decides to go on her own, and is joined by Andor and his followers.
The group arrives on Scarif in a stolen Imperial ship, and Imwe and Malbus lead an assault on the facility as a diversion so Jyn, Andor and K2S0 can infiltrate the facility and K2S0 sacrifices himself to disable the planetary shields and allow Jyn and Andor to steal the plans.
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The Rebel leaders learn that Scarif is under attack and scramble a feet of X-Wings to help. Jyn and Andor make their way atop the facility to broadcast the data to the Rebel Alliance, but Andor is shot by Krennic and left behind.
Imwe sacrifices himself to blow up the facility's signal jammer, and Malbus dies in a blaze of glory, killing Krennic's elite Stormtroopers. Rook dies when his ship is blown up, just as the Rebel fleet arrives and begins destroying the facility. Jyn reaches the transmitter, but is caught by Krennic. Just as he's about to kill her, Andor returns and shoots him dead.
At the Death Star, Grand Moft Tarkin finds out that Scarif has been compromised and destroys it with the Death Star, and Jyn and Andor embrace as they're consumed by the shockwaves. Meanwhile, the Rebel fleet is intercepted by Darth Vader, who slaughters the Rebels and is then ordered by Tarkin to retrieve the plans.
The plans are intercepted by Princess Leia Organa, who departs to Alderaan to deliver them to her father, Senator Bail Organa.
Adam Reyes
Where did u get this from?
Nicholas Hernandez
The movie is out already.
Levi Gonzalez
>Emperor Palatine speeder chase
Holy shit come on Disney
Angel Wright
>who reveals that Galen designed the Death Star with a fatal flaw, an unprotected exhaust port.
My fucking sides.
Evan Reyes
So fucking boring I couldn't even get through reading it.
Zachary Myers
You could see it coming. It kinda ruins the end of a new hope now. knowing the rebels didn't win on their own.
Dominic Bailey
>Everyone dies
Pretty ballsy, desu.
Anthony Sullivan
It's not even a real fatal flaw, the exhaust port was microscopic considering the size of the vessel, and it took a literal miracle of the force for anyone to make a successful hit on it.
Caleb Gomez
At least there are not white men
Gavin Adams
>tfw still going to watch this for mon mothma
James Wilson
Spoiler: this did not need to exist
Owen Hughes
>Vader actually killing instead of being a 3 second cameo
I will give it a watch just for that
Jayden Sanchez
>as they're consumed by the shockwaves. Is they dead?
Tyler Hernandez
What scene is this?
Jace Brown
>white woman leads multicultural team of individualistic rebels against the authoritarian white empire Pass.
Chase Evans
All these retarded names make my head hurt. The plot sounds far more complicated than it really is.
Austin Sullivan
Hope this is true desu
Liam Fisher
>They all die
P O T T E R Y
Aiden Powell
>no Bothan spies
Jaxson Walker
cam when? we need to get in early so we can have the dankest memes
Adrian Robinson
This is so fucking stupid. Why didn't Obi-Wan feel TWO OTHER PLANETS exploding then????
Eli Morris
Wish they turned into the Knights of Ren but okay
Austin Green
I find myself looking to find reasons to hate this movie. I want to hate it so fucking bad.
Ryder Rodriguez
Same :/
Carson Moore
>wish they turned into people who didn't exist 30 years before TFA
Okay?
Juan Jenkins
Well I am finding reasons to love it :^)
Tyler Perry
>He doesn't know that the Knights of Ren existed way before Kylo Ren was born Do you even read the lore?
Next time actually know facts before thinking otherwise
Ryder King
Apparently Felicity Jones was chosen solely on the amount of milk she produced.
Each of the potential female leads was hooked up to a tandem breast pump and milked until they had nothing left. Needless to say Felicity Jones produced by far the most milk.
This was done so that Disney could make maximum profits while they milked the series for everything it was worth, leaving nothing left but a dry, bear teet and an empty mouth for those who loved the series for what it once was.
Gabriel Gonzalez
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Blake Anderson
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Noah Bennett
Shill
Jayden Miller
If this is true they more or less copied the story of Halo Reach.
Alexander Robinson
I thought the bothers were the spies who got the info on the second Death Star? Its Kyle Katarn whose getting fucked here.
Noah Taylor
fucking this. as i'm reading, i'm wondering if i'm even pronouncing half of this shit correctly.
Justin Adams
Calm down, reddit
Kayden Howard
This movie by far looks amazing visually
Thomas Collins
Why didn't he just make the weak point large enough that it could be hit with targeting systems instead of needing the Force to take it down? That a pilot would be a Jedi seems like a big gamble when the are apparently all dead.
Easton Rogers
A fair concession, but even then - why turn this motley bunch into that?
Ryder Price
It's not Bothans, it's "Manny Bothens died to bring us these plans". There is literally a character named Manny Bothans that was retconned into the ESW universe to get rid of the bothans that died to get the plans.
Adrian Davis
You know what I don't understand. Jyn and Andor are clearly adapted from Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn. I mean, fuck, her name is Jyn Erso instead of Jan Ors. They changed two letters. And this Andor fellow looks exactly like Kyle Katarn.
So why didn't they just make them Kyle and Jan? It's like they went out of their way to say fuck you.
inb4 EUfag.
Julian Hill
>Galen designed the Death Star with a fatal flaw, an unprotected exhaust port
>what's the next step of your master plan? >crashing this planetoid battle station with no survivorsh!
Kevin Brown
Fag
Jeremiah Martin
Because they wanted to make OG Donut steal characters for their Disney verse.
Seriously all of these new planet names and character names are fucking retarded. Disney was such a mistake.
Joseph Jackson
Watched it today, can confirm it's correct, found it boring
Joshua Lopez
Darth VAder is in that thank, he's bathing/regenerating wahtever
Juan Taylor
>lol planet is compromised? blow it up then
Kind of reduces the impact of the destruction of Alderaan as well.
Connor Gomez
Vader comes out of that tank and gets built
Bentley Ortiz
Huh. Never noticed.
Sebastian Sullivan
Plot sounds like a darkhorse star wars comic where all of our heroes die, sounds kinda based.
Can you explain why it was disapointing? I haven't seen it but the plot as you describe it sounds cool enough, was it just executed shittily?
Brandon James
Kanan Jarrus is nu-Kyle, not Andor.
Luke Lewis
I don't know maybe you'll like the change, but as for me. The thing is the entire SW franchise is heavily marketed with force users and lightsabers. In this movie there were literally no force users except Vader who had like 5mins of screetime. Also more than a half of the movie is them just talking, sneaking and having here and there a small fight.
They didn't blow up the entire planet, they only like destroyed one continent.
Jacob Murphy
The fact we have new kyle and NotJacen/Jaina is the problem in itself.
Christopher Miller
Dark Forces Kyle, plus the first couple levels of Jedi Knight, was a rougish gunslinger-type, like Han Solo, rather than Luke Skywalker. Then they created Dash Rendar to be more Han-ish and rather than have two carbon copies of Han, they gave Kyle Jedi powers.
Lincoln Myers
>Scarif has been compromised and destroys it with the Death Star, and Jyn and Andor embrace as they're consumed by the shockwaves. So the Death Star was used before a New Hope. Then why didn't Obi-Wan react to it back in episode 4. Didn't Tarkin say that the Alderaan was the first demonstration of it's power?
Easton Sanchez
Yeah, like I said before it sounds like the everyman side of Star Wars we've seen primarily in comics and sometimes vidya.
Also, talking sneaking and skirmishing is the type of slow burn shit I missed in the breakneck sprint of TFA. So hopefully I will like the film as much as I like the description thus far
Connor Lee
read They even sold it to the senate as a mining accident
Gavin Foster
Maybe he meant as the first demonstration on a planet anybody cares about? I would guess that Scarif isn't that well known
Jordan Cooper
>go to theatres >chill and clap when main characters die >Awoo when darth vader kills rebels
Parker Perry
>but Andor is shot by Krennic and left behind. >Just as he's about to kill her, Andor returns and shoots him dead.
Sorry but it's true. But in their defense Andor falls down the stairs when shot, and I doubt Krenic could even see him after that from the platform he was shooting from
Andrew Ward
I thought Vader was gonna stalk and kill all the rogue one team
so the rogue one team just all die on the mission and Vader just kills a bunch of faceless literally whos?
Robert Bailey
HOL UP
Wasnt the Death Star already designed ? You can see the plans on Geonosis, Count Dooku has them.
WHAT THE FUCK
Aiden Davis
Prequels retconned? oh shit.
Christopher Thomas
EXACTLY
Ayden Ward
I aint making shit up dude, it's right there in Attack of the Clones.
The geonosian alien is looking at a red hologram of the Death Star
WHAT
THE
FUCK
Oliver Davis
He designed the laser, not the Death Star itself.
Brayden Young
>Saw Guerrera >Che Guevara Hmmm....
Landon Jackson
I know I remember it.
Hunter Williams
well that's fucking bullshit might as well not used Vader at all
Kevin Cox
What the fuck? That completely ruins it. The whole point is that the Empire got arrogant and Luke made a borderline-impossible shot. If it was deliberately meant to be hit, then what's the point?
Jaxson Brown
>might as well not used Vader at all We have action figures to sell, goy.
Lincoln Sullivan
>Resistance fighter Saw Guerrera
Oh, for fuck's sake, why not just call him Che Guevara and be done with it?
Elijah Howard
The death star itself was already designed, yeah. They bring the dad in to design the gun.
Parker Roberts
He's there for nostalgia, and so they could put him on the poster.
Colton Powell
As I said in the other thread, Mads and VAder were just a fucking bait, they both had like 5 mins if screentime.
Gavin Carter
Then why did they let him make an exhaust port somewhere else?
Liam Hernandez
JUST TURN OFF YOUR BRAIN LMAO
THIS IS STAR WARS, STAR WARS!
THAT THING FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD??'
STAR WARS!
Cameron Turner
Sad part is, when he was designing it, it was just supposed to be a sustainable energy source pulled from a freaking huge lightsaber crystal.
>Death Star Superlaser is actually a lightsaber >Darksaber vindicated
Alexander Peterson
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Henry Jones
Can't I just watch that Star Wars instead of this worse new one?
John Garcia
I think the exhaust port is directly associated with the gun. That would make sense why two little shots from an X-wing was enough to blow the Death Star up- they interacted with the gun's power source.
>be Suicide Squad >teaser The Joker in trailers >give him almost fuck all to do in the final movie >fans say what the fuck
>be Rogue One >tease Darth Vader in the trailers >give him almost fuck all to do in the final movie
For what purpose
Jace Russell
>mfw reading this
Colton Nguyen
It's actually Gerrera, not Guerrera.
Still stupid.
Though to be fair, he was originally a minor character in the cartoon, so they may have not expected him to take on a big role.
Isaac Miller
heh
Landon Rogers
>They introduce different races to erase stereotypes
>They give them stereotypical minority names
Top Kek they are actually retarded
Jayden Thompson
>K2S0 sacrifices himself to disable the planetary shields There was something similar in new COD.
Nathan Diaz
>give him almost fuck all to do in the final movie
That was actually for the good
Jaxson Thomas
Who's in front of him? Sheev?
Ryan Diaz
Actually them came out and said his role will be minimal
Kayden Davis
>tease audiences with a recognizable character that sells itself Yeah what a waste of time that would be
Ayden Robinson
The planets aren't completely obliterated without a trace like Alderaan. They're just fucked up real bad, as if several hundred nukes were dropped on them