8 Huge Concerns About Hyped Upcoming Movies
1. Rogue One Is A Story That Just Doesn't Need To Be Told
Remember that scene in The Phantom Menace when Qui-Gon Jin explains the nature of the force, how it's powered by microscopic life forms named Midi-chlorians? Gone was the "magic" behind the force, the belief in its almost religious intangibility. Whatever you speculated the force might be was confirmed wrong, and a little bit of the Star Wars mystery was lost forever.
That, in essence, is Rogue One. I'm not claiming the film will be anywhere near as misjudged as the Midi-chlorian thing, but it's the start of the same process on a much grander scale. No longer will fans be able to imagine and speculate how the Death Stars' plans came into the Rebellion's hands. Instead, they'll be suspending their disbelief as to why so many of the people in Rogue One are absent during the original trilogy (you might think the entire cast is going to be killed off during the mission - they most definitely won't).
The same will soon go for Han Solo. Crystallising Solo's past in a spin-off film will have the knock-on effect of removing much of Harrison Ford's character's mysterious charm when he first shows up in A New Hope. And with the revelation that Josh Trank was working on a Boba Fett film - a character whose entire appeal is tied up in his enigmatic nature - it's clear which direction things are heading.
Rogue One is a depressing sign that Disney has every intention of telling stories that just don't need to be told.