STAR WARS ROGUE ONE: A review Star Wars:Rogue One is a spin-off of the wildly successful Star Wars Cinematic Universe, and the second of several planned Disney movies. Rogue One was directed by Gareth Edwards of "Godzilla" 2014 fame and was written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy (both of which have several movies to their names). The film stars Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso and has a whole cavalcade of love-able cannon fodder side characters. Of course you've probably already seen Rogue One, I'm more than a year late on riding the review coat-tails, so I'm going to keep this one relatively short. Rogue One will be the first of my Disney Star Wars reviews, so I'll get to The Force Awakens and Last Jedi later. I grew up loving Star Wars when I was younger, and I read A LOT of the Extended Universe books. However, when Disney bought Star Wars I was a little worried. I'll get to my thoughts on TFA later, but I was mostly upset that most of my beloved storie...
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