Felicity Jones is Jyn Erso in Rogue One

Amazing actress. Can't wait to see her in this film.

 

Moulin Rouge one?

 

Come what may...

 

Having read the theory that her character is the future Mrs. Luke/Mother of Rey, I'll now be very disappointed if that's not true, because it would be next-level franchise planning for these movies if it was.

 

Franchise planning is not a good enough reason for a character to be related to another character.

 

Er, who said it was? I said it would be impressive for Disney to be coordinating between seemingly unrelated films like that. The main reason I think it would be a cool idea is that it would make Rey's mother more than the unseen backstory character she'd otherwise be most likely to be.

 

She more Han Solo-esque that I thought, not that I'm complaining about that.

 

I thought the anthology films were separate outside of the Skywalker saga so in other words felicity Jones's character doesn't necessarily mean that she has to be related to anyone from the sw saga. The galaxy is supposed to be huge. Not small...more characters to fill up those empty spaces we haven't met before is better than believing that certain characters from other sw films are related to what we've come to know from the other six films.

 

I think we have more of a chance of seeing characters from star wars : rebels cartoon in this, than we do characters from the "main story line."

 

Pablo Hidalgo, Lucasfilm Story Group:
"[I was searching Google for Rogue One] Rey theories. " (February 29, 2016) "There are crazy theories out there. Jar Jar level crazy." (February 29, 2016)
"Given that no one knows a thing about [Felicity Jones's character in Rogue One] [it] seems like a huge and desperate stretch [for her to be Rey's mother]." (March 16, 2016)
"Aren't 40% of the Rey parentage theories dependent on accents being genetic? " (April 2, 2016)
"[What if no one in Rogue One is related to anyone we’ve ever met in a Star Wars movie before?] You mean it 'stands alone' from the rest of the movies in that regard?" (April 7, 2016)

 

Nobody was saying she had to be related to anyone from the main saga.

Er, yeah, right before, since it's about stealing the plans that end up with Leia.

We don't see every single character on Yavin, so that really doesn't prove anything. Anyone who survived (and I'm skeptical that this ends with every single one dying) could be literally anywhere.

 

She also has a bot of a Snake Plissken vibe to her as well. If she were a male character, 80's Kurt Russell would probably fit this role like a glove.

 

So did the Laura Dern theories got thrown out the window all of a sudden?

 

We don't know anything about the circumstances of how the plans got handed off to Leia. But regardless, like I said, they don't have to be on Yavin either.

 

But weren't they actually trying to get the plans to Alderaan? A planet that eventually gets destroyed, thus forcing everyone to Yavin?

The only reason the Death Star even ends up there is because of the tracking device on the Millennium Falcon.