Watched it at work muted. Looks good, but please tell me that girl doesn't have a British accent. Killed TFA for me.
It's Felicity Jones, who is a Brit, so yes. And she is pretty damn hot. She was in the Stephen Hawking movie as his wife (though she is better looking than she was in that).
Rogue Squadron was an elite pilot group organized by Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles. There's overlap.
How can that be? They get the plans to Leia before Luke even leaves Tatooine.
Looks great!
As a side note: between TFA, this and the Aftermath book anyone else notice they seem to be on a 'Female lead character' kick lately?
This is bugging me a bit. I don't care about the politics of it. Female leads are fine with me. But when it starts feeling force fed, the agenda ruins the immersion. I just wanna get lost in the story without thinking about things like that.
The trailer looks fantastic. I saw the original movie as a very young child at a drive in theater the summer of '77. This flick is a chance to revisit all of those old settings, gear, characters, uniforms, etc. without doing a remake of the original movie. And it looks like they freshened everything up without making any real changes - the fresh retro look is so much win. If the story is any good at all, they are gonna have 30-49 year olds begging them to take their money.
BTW - any news on the rumor of an Obi Wan stand alone movie with Ewan McGregor? That could be really interesting as well. He was one of the best things about the prequels. I'd heard that he was into the idea.