Hound’s Tooth Blog (via Star Wars News Net) snagged a few minutes with McDiarmid at Amsterdam Comic Con, where the actor confirmed that he will not appear as Emperor Palpatine in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The first short (there will be four in all) can also be viewed on the “Star Wars” YouTube channel starting today.
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Beginning September 30, fans are invited to create and share their own Go Rogue videos. Hailing from Making Star Wars, these pics drive home the point that, if J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens captured the spirit of the original Star Wars trilogy, Rogue One looks like it was ripped directly from another era in the best possible way.
Rather than just unbox toys across several worldwide time zones like last year’s “Force Friday” – which earned an estimated $1B in Star Wars Force Awakens merchandise retails sales – Rogue One toys are being revealed in #GoRogue, a four-part series of fan-made stop-motion animated shorts that spotlight the action figures. With stop-motion, it takes about 10 hours of shooting time to create 6 seconds of video. We also get a glimpse of several actors with Gareth Edwards on the Scarif set.
The contest closes on October 30. The #GoRogue contest asks fans to create their own short films with the toys they buy, with winners getting a trip to LucasFilm HQ in San Francisco for a special “Rogue One” screening and a screening of their short. The newest Star Wars heroine has a rogue steak in her as she leads the rebel team in a mission to steal the plans of the Death Star.
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“It’s different to the other Star Wars movies”, Ahmed stated. According to ZEFR online, when Star Wars news breaks, fans react by sharing videos online and in the a year ago they’ve posted 838K Star Wars-related content on YouTube. As part of the current promotion, fans are being encouraged to create their own online Star Wars stories and skits, with a victor invited to a San Francisco screening. It hits USA theaters on December 16.
