Star Wars: Rogue One Trailer 2 - 14 Major Plot Clues

After a terrible summer season for movies that pretty roundly failed to deliver, the rest of 2016 and the big movies from the start of the winter really can't come quickly enough. And of course, the crown jewell on the top of that particularly pile is Gareth Edwards Star Wars anthology movie, Rogue One.

And despite those reshoots and whispers on the wind about the studio not being too keen on the tone, the second trailer promises more of the same. More war. More doom. More brilliantly stark villains and more complex, flawed heroes. This is a Star Wars film with an entirely different heart, different personal costs and the same over-arching grandeur.

It's just shot from a different distance than the palaces and war rooms of the mainline movies. And that is no bad thing.

It's fair to say that the hype train just got another healthy injection of fuel on its way out of the station, thanks to this exceptional teaser. And there's a lot to learn from it.

Here are the biggest plot hints in the brand new Rogue One trailer...

No matter how many people draw the comparisons between new planet Jedha and Tattooine, it's just not going to fly. There's no way LucasFilm would do that... right? It's way too on the nose.

Anyway, if you'd missed it to this point, Jedha is basically the Jedi mecca, and there's something on the planet - allegedly - that is of major significance to both the Rebellion and the Empire. The hottest take seems to suggest that is Kyber Crystals, potentially granting the finders the ability to make lightsabers.

Judging by the presence of Imperial forces hinted in the very first shot of the trailer, the place is a major Imperial objective. We're basically looking at the Star Wars version of The Holy Wars, and with the Lambda class transport landers seemingly just taking off and arriving, this doesn't feel like an entrenched position yet.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Empire only just got here.