When I first saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977, my mind was reeling with questions afterwards.
It wasn’t lost on me that we entered the story in the middle, and I was hungry for backstory, and one of the things I wondered about was the events that allowed the Rebels to get the plans for the Death Star. I thought it would make a great movie, but then I remembered that everybody involved died while stealing it, and a movie where all the heroes die is never going to be made.
So I was shocked decades later, when Rogue One was released to tell that story after all.
When I first saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977, my mind was reeling with questions afterwards.
It wasn’t lost on me that we entered the story in the middle, and I was hungry for backstory, and one of the things I wondered about was the events that allowed the Rebels to get the plans for the Death Star. I thought it would make a great movie, but then I remembered that everybody involved died while stealing it, and a movie where all the heroes die is never going to be made.
So I was shocked decades later, when Rogue One was released to tell that story after all.