Update 2: Star Wars: Rogue One Based on Assassin’s Creed: Rogue
We’ll be back shortly with the scoop… but let’s just say Templars and Sith are going to get very cozy with one another real soon. We are updated with the first part of the plot. Click more to read!
This is from an anonymous source who wants us to refer to him as “The Bothan Spy.” He claims he is in contact with an individual who worked on editing the final script with Chris Weitz.
The movie will be about a young Rebel named Kylo Ren, a pupil under Luke Skywalker. Luke thinks there is potential in him but Ren is very reckless and the other Rebel leaders don’t like it. Thinking giving Ren more things to do in the Alliance will make him settle down, Luke sends Kylo to track down an Imperial cell that has found a map leading to several Sith Holocrons. The map is hidden within a special crystal that resides in Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber and had been stolen from Luke following the battle of Endor. With the help of Boba Fett (who survived the sarlacc apparently and will be portrayed by Sylvester Stallone) Kylo is tasked to find one of the Holocrons hidden on Naboo.
However Kylo has been questioning Luke and the Alliance’s motives after seeing their refusal to speak with Imperial leaders and bring about a treaty. His doubts come to a head when he obtains a Holocron and it causes an earthquake on Naboo, destroying the city of Theed in the process. Noting that similar events have happened on other planets, Ren is horrified to learn that Luke and the Rebels intend to keep searching for the remaining Holocrons. Ren steals Luke’s lightsaber that holds the map and takes off, while the Rebels go after him. At the edge of the Rebel base, a Rebel shoots him and leaves him for dead. Kylo comes to find out it was his best friend Rylie Dameron (the sister of Poe Dameron portrayed by Felicity Jones) who shot him.
We will update with more when The Bothan Spy sends us more info.
UPDATED! Here is more on Rogue One from our friend The Bothan Spy…
Ren is rescued by a passing ship and taken to Coruscant. Once he recovers, he uses the skills he learned from the Jedi Luke Skywalker to drive out the planet’s criminal gangs. His actions attract the attention of Valz Ysard, the planet’s current leader, who offers Ren the chance to help rebuild the planet. Indebted to Ysard, Ren assists the Imperial Army in their early campaigns against the Mandalorians, and discovers that Luke’s chapter is supporting the Mandalorian war effort. Ysard reveals himself to be a Sith acolyte, and despite knowing of Ren’s prior loyalty, offers him a place within their Order. Ren accepts, but Ysard is killed shortly afterwards during an attack on a Rebel base. Ren is then formally inducted by the true Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Plagueis.
Kylo Ren reveals to Plaguei his belief that the holocrons sought by the Rebels are not weapons, but are instead being used to hold the Galaxy together, and he pledges to stop his former allies before they cause another catastrophe. His efforts lead to the deaths of several senior figures in the Rebel Alliance, until only Luke and Rylie remain. Having discovering that the pair are headed for another Sith temple in on Hoth, he immediately pursues them. Inside the temple, Plagueis and Kylo confront Luke and Rylie over their actions, but Luke’s attempts to prevent bloodshed causes Rylie to destroy the holocron by accident, causing another earthquake. While Plagueis pursues Luke, and Kylo and Rylie fight throughout the temple, until Kylo ultimately kills his former friend and lover. He arrives in time to persuade Plagueis to spare Luke, as his testimony will stop the Jedi from trying to locate other temples. Plagueis nonetheless cripples Luke as a precaution by shooting him in the knee.
With the Rebel Alliance all but destroyed, Ren is tasked with locating the map that was used to find the Sith holocrons, as Luke had passed to other Rebels prior to his voyage to Hoth. Ren’s twenty year search eventually leads him to Lothal, where he discovers it under the care of Zare Leonis; father of Finn, protagonist of The Force Awakens. Ren kills Zare and takes possession of the map, taunting the dying man with the promise that while the Galactic Civil War ended Imperial influence on Alliance planets, a new war may yet hold promise.
Wow! What a story to lead into The Force Awakens! I can’t wait to see this take place!
