With all of the rumors about the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens running around the web, it's easy to forget that Star Wars: Rogue One is filming and going to be released December of next year. It will be the first movie that will take place in the Star Wars universe that won't feature Jedi, and is said to be more of a "war movie" than anything else. It's also expected to be much darker and grittier than any other Star Wars film so far.
Taking place in between The Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, the movie will follow a band of the Rebel's best fighter pilots in their mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, which is under construction at the time of this story.
We already know that Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, and Diego Luna are going to be starring in the film as several of the fighter pilots, but it was recently announced that Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to also star in the film. Even though it isn't official yet, it looks like it's a done deal. When he signs, he'll be joining Ben Mendelsohn and Sam Clafin (as well as the already mentioned actors) in the first of the Anthology movies. The Anthonlogy films will be released in between the years of the "chaptered" stories (i.e. Episode I, II, III, IV, and so on) and will tell stories within the Star Wars universe that haven't really been touched on yet. The second Anthology film is rumored to follow Han Solo and Boba Fett, and tell us how they became adversaries. Other stories that fans seem to want to see include a feature starring IG-88, Darth Maul, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
These movies will really open up the Star Wars universe to moviegoers that may have been too young, or not even born yet, when the original series was released back in the late 70's and early 80's.
Star Wars: Rogue One will be released December 2016.
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