The cast features some very familiar faces including Felicity Jones, Diego Luna.
It also prompted a negative response from white. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theaters in just a few days and we have here a full cast list from the movie. So when Edwards started to answer Heyman's question, there was hope that he was finally going to speak out on the matter:Įdwards added that without lessons, the movies would just be "spaceships and explosions." However, he stopped short of suggesting what those life lessons should be - other than saying the first movie teaches us to turn off our computers, as Luke does in the attack on the Death Star, and go outside. The diversity of the Rogue One cast was key to its success in domestic and international markets. Some industry experts suggest speaking up about the film's politics - as its writers did on Twitter before deleting anti-Trump tweets - could risk losing ticket sales to millions of Trump voters. As Forest Whitaker says at the beginning of the first full Rogue One trailer: "The world is coming undone."īut Disney and Lucasfilm have been studiously silent on any political question, despite Star Wars' long history of taking a progressive, pro-diversity stance. Rogue One cast members Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn and Mads Mikkelsen talk about their first day on set and. Now it has seemed obvious for a while to many viewers that there's a political message in a movie about a band of diverse, downtrodden rebels coming together to strike a blow at an authoritarian leader who has transformed a Republic into an Empire. From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure.
Star Wars is political, and it always has been
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