This one isn’t much of a surprise, but is worth getting excited for nonetheless.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR is all but set to be one of the biggest hits of the summer, if not the year, and it happens to be both a Disney production and a May 6th release (which is two days after May the 4th). So when The Nerdy Show claims that the trailer for ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY will premiere on the 4th and alongside CIVIL WAR two days later, it seems like rock-solid info.
They surmise that the trailer will feature Darth Vader, though he hasn’t been officially confirmed to return, in order to transmit the idea of a non-sequential STAR WARS story to common moviegoers, but I think the Death Star imagery (and maybe some score and Tie Fighters) would do that just fine.
The FORCE AWAKENS marketing was clearly as successful as marketing gets, as the film’s not only surpassed all the previous STAR WARS movie but nearly every movie made at the box-office, so one would imagine each teaser and image of ROGUE ONE being released with the same level of attention and care. Personally, I’d be fine with the teaser shown at Comic-Con last year, but if they reveal some of the cast and maybe hint at the hiest-film tone of the piece, I wouldn’t complain.
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY will, indeed, feature Donnie Yen and Mads Mikkelsen in the same film on December 16th, 2016.
