Talk:Rogue One/GA1

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Nominator: Cocobb8 (talk · contribs) 15:10, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Cambalachero (talk · contribs) 15:20, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Images

• File:Rogue One, A Star Wars Story poster.png Y Non-free, has rationale
• File:FelicityJonesTIFFSept2011.jpg Y CC Flickr image
• File:Diego Luna 2017.jpg Y Extracted from a CC Flickr image
• File:Ben Mendelsohn at the Rogue One -A Star Wars Story- World Premeire Red Carpet - DSC 0547 (31547593176) (cropped).jpg Y Extracted from a CC Flickr image. Name is too long and the description was non-working HTML code, but that's just background stuff, fixing it or not is irrelevant for GAN.
• File:Donnie Yen (2014).jpg Y Extracted from a CC Flickr image
• File:Mads Mikkelsen Cannes 2016.jpg Y CC image
• File:Forest Whitaker by Gage Skidmore.jpg Y Extracted from a CC image.
• File:North east hadhunmathi maldives.JPG Y CC image
• File:Canary Wharf tube stn eastbound look west.JPG Y CC image
• File:Rogue One- A Star Wars Story Japan Premiere Red Carpet- Diego Luna, Felicity Jones & Gareth Edwards (35410516140).jpg Y CC Flickr image. An alternative description in English may be useful, but not mandatory.

Infobox and lead

• "Based on" is for works adapted from other media (as "Iron Man", based on a comic, or "Lord of the Rings", based on a book). This is a prequel in the same media type.  Done, changed to written.
• "... and digital recreations of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher". Actually, they have recreated characters (Princess Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin) that were played by dead actors. As written, it may seem as if Cushing and Fisher appeared as themselves.  Done, clarified.

Plot

• Jyn was rescued by a rebel, there's a time jump, and Jyn is freed from a prison camp. Yes, a lot of things may happen in fifteen years, but aren't we missing something here? Seems a bit weird to show her being prisoner right after showing her avoiding capture. Or was that the way it was shown? Not changed, this is how it was shown.
• Subsequent mentions of Galen Erso call him "Galen". It is usual to use the last name instead. I've checked various other plot summaries and they also use the character's first names (is also the case for other characters in this plot summary, like Jyn or Cassian).
• Is Jedha a moon, a city, or a city in a Moon with both having the same name?
• "Krennic orders a test fire, which destroys Jedha City" Just the city? Didn't the Death Star destroy whole planets? No, in the movie the death star only destroys Jedha City (wasn't fully up to power yet). Clarified.
• "Jyn and her group take Rook and flee the moon, but Gerrera remains there to die" No offense, but that sound silly from Gerrera. Why did he stay? Was that his home, or did he had some strong attachment to that moon? Was he injured and unable to follow the others? Did he had to protect something? He didn't explicitly say why in the movie, as he only says Save the Rebellion. Save the dream. The plot summary is therefore not for deductions on why he chose to stay behind.
• "Vader boards the Rebel command ship and kills many troops trying to regain the schematics, but a smaller ship[b] escapes with the schematics" You said "schematics" twice in a sentence.  Done.

Cast

• "Donnie Yen as Chirrut Îmwe: A blind warrior who believes in the Force." Perhaps it should be clarified that he's neither a Jedi nor a Sith, as that's the norm for all other characters related to the Force in the Star Wars franchise (or at least the films).
• No reference for the last sentence in the first paragraph

Development

• Has Episode III being linked before in the article? If not, do it.
• "Assuming Disney would not allow a dark ending, Edwards had the main characters surviving in the original version of the script, but the producers opted for a more tragic ending and never filmed the original version." That sentence is too long, split it in two.
• The explanation of the multiple meanings of "Rogue One" should be better after the sentence in the first paragraph when the name was announced.

Casting

• Seems fine

Filming

• Seems fine

Post-production

• There's no mention of Lucasfilm getting Fisher's estate permission to do the CGI thing, as with Cushing.

Music

• Did any of the work of Desplat made it to the final cut, or is it all Giacchino's?

Marketing

• "...which is 200,000 views shy..." Try to avoid idioms and use instead phrases with a direct meaning.
• "the Star Wars franchise's greatest natural resource: daddy issues." Do not wikilink inside quotations.
• In the comics, you should mention the creative teams, especially as the text discusses a shift in the graphic style.

Release

• Do we need subsections? All are too small. Perhaps just a general "Release" section will do.

Reception

• Seems fine

Prequel

• Should this be a main level section? Why not place it in "marketing", alongside other related works? Or changed to a wider title, such as "Related productions" or similar.
• Also, a brief description of what actually happens in the series would be helpful (one or two sentences would do it).

Will continue later Cambalachero (talk) 15:20, 11 July 2024 (UTC)