Star Wars: Rogue One - 12 Big Questions We're Asking After The First Trailer

4. #WheresVader?

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Is Darth Vader going to be in Rogue One? There have been stories, rumours that it might happen. And they're probably true. All of them.

At this point it feels more like we're just waiting for the official confirmation that he is in the movie, because the reports of it happening have been so frequent, and it makes sense in the film's timeline that he would have at least a small part to play, thus explaining his actions and mood when he first enters the franchise at the beginning of Star Wars. 

Are we ever actually going to get to see him in the trailers though? I could certainly understand the logic in holding him back for the movie itself, though that would require them not actually confirming his presence, lest we have the whole #WheresLuke debacle again. Still, it'd be so tantalising if they were to tease him - just like his exhale of breath you can definitely hear at the 1:29 mark, right? 

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