New Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Synopsis Released

Ahead of Thursday's trailer debut for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Disney and Lucasfilm have released a revised official synopsis for the film. The synopsis doesn't tell us anything drastically new about the movie, but rather summarizes the basics of what we already knew.

From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, with Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel are producing, with John Knoll and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in U.S. theaters on December 16, 2016.

The new second trailer for the film will debut during NBC's Olympics coverage on Thursday, August 11, and fans are anxiously hoping to catch a glimpse of Darth Vader, who was in the exclusive footage shown at Star Wars Celebration Europe last month. A teaser video for the new trailer was released late yesterday.

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