Looking at our watches, or should we say calendars, we can see that there is just under four months until a new Star Wars film arrives in cinemas. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the very first stand-alone Star Wars movie, and arrives in cinemas on December 16th.
Empire Magazine have got their whole ‘Rogue One’ cover issue going on this month and they have been chatting to director Gareth Edwards as part of that who revealed just where that title comes from. Seems it’s one big, obvious reasoning behind it.
As well as referring to Rogue Squadron, the team of X-Wing fighter pilots led by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope, the call sign also has another meaning.
“What does it mean? ‘Rogue One’ is a military call sign to some extent,” he said, “but this is the first film that’s gone off-piste and is not part of the saga – or the Anakin story – so it’s the ‘rogue’ one, you know?”
Genius. More Rogue One news as it comes our way.
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