This Monday, North American fans will have their first opportunity to purchase tickets for Gareth Edwards’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and based on its huge $130 million opening weekend projection, there will be a mad scramble online to get an ideal showtime.
Keeping the marketing train chugging along, Disney and LucasFilm have released a new TV spot and trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Watch them in the videos above.
Videos by ComicBook.com
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, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel are producing, with John Knoll and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in U.S. theaters on December 16, 2016.