They showed him ( thought it wasn't 100% clear it was him ) touching R2, and they used some of his dialogue from ROTJ.
Rogue One (2016) [SW Anthology Series)
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They showed him ( thought it wasn't 100% clear it was him ) touching R2, and they used some of his dialogue from ROTJ.
The thing with Rogue One is that it is logical for Vader to be in the film. However it is not his story. He is not a main character and not even the main antagonist. What we are hoping to see is him in action. This is a war movie and I hope to see Vader at war for once on the battlefield. We've seen him in space and in a duel, but not out with the troops fighting. We have seen him storming Rebel strongholds with his stormtroopers, but the action is usually finished before he gets there. He's not as fast as he once was, when he tended to lead the clone troopers in battle. So I'd like to see him fight in the suit once in the films.
Mark Hamill did narrate the trailer released in the spring 2015.
Yeah, but I'm guessing your father (if he's already a SW fan) has that wealth of memories created by those legendary OT characters, Luke and Vader at the top of the list. To many, you say "Star Wars" and they think of certain characters, and i'll just guess again that its not anyone from the PT or TFA.
And?
TFA sticks out to me because of Rey, to my daughters because of BB-8, so on and so forth.
Rouge One sticks out because it's very much a war style movie, which my dad likes. Star Wars is a bonus. I don't mind Vader being in there, but, as others have stated, it makes sense that he would be there, since he is trying to run down the plans at the beginning of ANH.
Still don't think Star Wars needs Vader or to be "sold."
I'm guessing the Han movie(s) will use Boba Fett in a similar fashion.
Perhaps, but Han Solo didn't have the huge bounty on his head from Jabba the Hutt until around the time of A New Hope. He had one, else Greedo won't have been there (unless he was just a collector). Given how Han and Jabba interacted, it seemed like it wasn't quite as much a big deal for Jabba, or else Han was the best and warranted a personal visit by Jabba.
It's not unreasonable that they might cross paths. After all they both travel in similar circles and have both worked for Jabba at various points.
That said, a lot of fans seem to have gotten it into their heads that Boba is going to be the main antagonist in this movie, which doesn't seem very likely. The idea that Han and Boba had this massive rivalry is something cooked up in the EU and mostly *after* the Sarlacc. Foe one thing, bounty hunters and smugglers are not natural rivals. Their jobs just aren't likely to directly interfere with one another or be in direct competition.
That said, a lot of fans seem to have gotten it into their heads that Boba is going to be the main antagonist in this movie, which doesn't seem very likely. The idea that Han and Boba had this massive rivalry is something cooked up in the EU and mostly *after* the Sarlacc. Foe one thing, bounty hunters and smugglers are not natural rivals. Their jobs just aren't likely to directly interfere with one another or be in direct competition.
I'm almost positive Vader shows up at some point in the first Dark Forces (not as an in-game character, but in a cutscene or two).
He does. He reviews the Dark Trooper project with the Imperial officer in charge.
Well logically, wherever he was when the theft went down (in multiple places at once according to the EU) he was immediatly on Leia's trail. So in the old version of events, there's really no reason he'd be at any of these secret facilities. Even in the movie one gets the impression he wasn't called in on this until right after the fact.
That said, wasn't there a scene in the old radio dramatisation of ANH that showed him tangling with Leia prior to her receiving the plans? Something about some Imperial dignitary. I forget the details.
Until they were stolen, would he need to be involved? He likely was overseeing the project itself, not wherever the plans were secured. After the delivery of the plans, he would be pursing Leia's ship, since they traced the transmission to Tantive IV
From what I remember of the radio drama, there is an earlier chapter of Leia providing aid to a blockaded planet were Lord Vader is overseeing things. He's suspicious, but she goes on with her mission. This is one place were they learn of the Death Star. Later another Imperial noble comes calling on Alderaan, where Leia slips the name "Death Star" when he's bragging about the Empire's new toy. She's forced to shoot him if I recall. She's later sent to retrieve Kenobi, but if I recall gets pulled away to another planet blockaded by the Empire in order to receive the transmissions from the Rebels who stole the plans for the Death Star. Vader's ship is there on the blockade and moved to intercept (Leia's cover is navigation error and repair (sending R2 outside with 3PO at the airlock, both under strict control from Leia and with a memory block so that if questioned they will not give her away.). They get the transmission and jump away just before Vader's ship is in range, figuring they can escape in hyperspace, since it is difficult to track ships. But Vader, with the Force is seems, comes out of hyperspace directly behind them over Tatooine, and the movie begins.
He also showed up in the 'X-Wing' cutscenes, which unlike his Dark Forces appearance did indeed relate to the theft of the Death Star plans.
Oh yeah, that's a clear, unbound kyber crystal. Very interesting.
Could her mother be a failed padawan that left the order after her trials on Iilum? Or at lest descended from someone that did and the crystal in a family heirloom? Jyn seems too old to have been born after Order 66, so her mother probably isn't a Jedi survivor like Kanan. Perhaps she's not a force user at all and wearing a clear crystal is a "Church of the Force" thing?
I'm sure a lot of people are going to jump on this as an indication that Jyn is Rey's mother. Admittedly that's not impossible by any means, but I doubt they'll go there.
Not impossible, but it would seem a little odd to slip that in here.
I think it's more likely that's a separate story they're saving for a novel or a comic book somewhere down the line.