Not quite as forceful, and for shorthand, we’ll still refer to this as “Star Wars: Rogue One” or just “Rogue One” since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sounds like a bedtime book.
Moving on, we also have some new and exciting additions to the cast. We previously reported that the cast included Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, and Forest Whitaker. Disney has now announced that the cast will also include Donnie Yen (Ip Man), Jiang Wen (Let the Bullets Fly), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal), and Alan Tudyk (Firefly), who will be playing a performance-capture character.
From a talent and racial diversity perspective, this cast is fantastic, and I can’t wait to see what they do together. But if it has a major problem, it’s the same one that The Force Awakens had when it announced its cast: painfully short on female roles. Granted, based on this image and the order of announcing the cast, it sounds like Jones’ character is the lead of this ensemble, but that’s still just one female role and it’s 2015. That’s ridiculous. Hopefully there will be some more additions similar to how Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie were announced after the big cast photo was revealed for Force Awakens.
Check out the image below. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens December 16, 2016.

Via Collider
