Rogue Two and Three? The Rogue Anthology Is A Trilogy?
Riding the momentum of Star Wars: The Force Awakens becoming the all-time North American box office champ, Disney/Lucasfilm is opening up about future plans for the franchise. Read on to learn something huge about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Kathleen Kennedy sat down with one of our staff at the recent Chinese premiere for The Force Awakens and dropped a megaton: Rogue One is the first of a planned trilogy of films. Star Wars and trilogies go hand-in-hand so it isn’t surprising that Disney is feeling confident their spin-off film could become a mini-franchise as well. There are still rumors floating around about an Obi-Wan anthology trilogy which, after learning of this Rogue series news, make it much more likely we’ll see Ewan McGregor don his bathrobes and braid again. It seems no idea is too big or too expensive for Disney when it comes to whoring out George Lucas’ mud pies.
With a little digging we’ve been able to come up with the premise for the currently titled “Rogue Two” and “Rogue Three” (many many many Bothans cried to bring you this information).
Rogue Two – following the basic premise of Rogue One, Rogue Two will feature a slightly older Felicity Jones (she did sign for a two picture deal, CAA confirmed) leading a team of Bothans to capture the plans for Death Star II. It will be interesting to finally see the weight behind Mon Mothma’s famous words regarding the brave Bothans. What the heck does a Bothan look like anyway? I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Now, as Rogue One is being touted as being modeled after a war film, Rogue Two will center around the basic premise of Midnight Run, essentially a more lighthearted buddy crime chase across the galaxy. It will also include a major plot point in which the plans will be hidden inside of… you thought I was going to write droid didn’t you? Nope, this time the plans will be broken down into a biological information form and transported inside of a _____________. We’re not allowed to publish this information so I’ll leave it to you imagination what Star Wars life form helps the Rebels this time.
Rogue Three – Have you guessed it be now? Yup – Rogue Three takes place three and a half hours before The Force Awakens and centers around a band of Resistance diplomats who have been captured and wrongfully accused of crimes against the First Order. From within their holding cell on Starkiller base, the diplomats have to forgo their galactic pleasantries and fight for their life to make it out alive, with the much easier to steal plans for the base’s holographic green spinning line drawing. Switching up the film-making style again, Rogue Three is said to be modeled after Toy Story 3, written by Michael Arndt, which was modeled after The Great Escape. This film is also said to feature Wedge Antilles back behind the wheel of an X-Wing, assisting the escape and will explain his absence from The Force Awakens.
So there’s the biggest scoop we’ve delivered yet. We’ll keep sending Bothans to their tear-duct filled deaths until we have confirmation on more details. Tune in next week to find out who the rumored directors are for the remainder of the Rogue Trilogy.
