Leaky-leaky: http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/24/9200553/star-wars-stormtrooper-helmet-rogue-one
I think it’s so cool Donnie Yen is in this, kung fu or no. Throw in Mikkelsen and Tudyk (are they in that photo somewhere?) and I’m all over this.
They’re not in that photo, but Mikkelsen is in this one from the D23 expo.
He revealed that his character “is not a bad guy.”
It was theorized by fans that Mikkelsen might play Admiral Jhared Montferrat, a new canon character that was specifically modeled after Mikkelsen’s Hannibal role.
No bad guys think they’re bad guys.
What the what?
Weirdly, that has made me more interested in the new Star Wars films than anything else I’ve seen to date.
his character “is not a bad guy.” “that was specifically modeled after Mikkelsen’s Hannibal role.”
Does not compute
The character that was based on Mikkelsen’s physical appearance is in a short story that was published in Star Wars Insider and later on starwars.com. The big hulabaloo was that the story was the first piece of canon fiction published under the new Disney ownership.
That character is likely not the one Mikkelsen plays in the movie.
Mikkelsen “bad guy”, but Mikkelsen not “bad guy”.
Mikkelsen is saying his character in the movie is not a bad guy. We don’t know who that character is.
Fans theorized it might be that Jhared dude, though that sounds like a stretch. From that Star Wars wikia page, we learn Admiral Montferrat is a character in some short story published in the Star Wars Insider magazine. On Facebook, a fan asked Chris Trevas, the artist who did the portrait of the character for that story:
Someone pointed out to met that your depiction of Montferrat in “Blade Squadron” looked a bit like Mads Mikkelsen playing Le Chiffre in “Casino Royale.” Was this intentional?
To which he reponded:
So that could definitely all just be unrelated coincidence; an artist used Mikkelsen as a reference for a minor character in a story nobody will have ever heard of back in 2014, Mikkelsen ends up cast in a Star Wars movie in 2015. Given how many of these movies they’re making, that’s likely to happen to all of us eventually.
But who knows, maybe it’s Brian Hitch using Samuel L. Jackson as his reference for Nick Fury in The Ultimates resulting in Samuel L. Jackson actually playing Nick Fury years later all over again.
Great minds, sir
— Alan
Darth Vader’s role may be bigger than we thought.
Btw - Ahsoka Tano or GTFO. I’ve been watching a wholly unreasonable amount of Clone Wars and she’s now my favourite Star Wars character of all time.
I’m o.k. with that. If they’re going to go back in the timeline to make Boba Fett and Han Solo movies, I’d be cool to see Vader during his complete badass period when he can also actually win in the movie, at least in terms of destroying the rebels once they complete their mission. As long as there’s no Hayden.
As long as they get James Earl Jones to do the voice, I am in. No Jones, no go.
That said, I would much rather the new spinoffs were just not fucking prequels, again, and instead covered new ground post-Return of the Jedi. There’s just no drama in covering events that end in manner already known.
If they were going to do any of these, I wish they instead had done one with Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan.
I could be down for that. He could be a good Obi Wan, away from the prequel stink.
He recently did the voice for Rebels, so maybe he would.
That’d be great. We’ve got plenty of time to wait, too, since McGregor has a wide range of ages left to play. Although I suppose he didn’t really get up to much on Tatooine.
Doubly agreed.