Disney just released the first teaser trailer for "Star Wars: Rogue One."
Coming December 16, the film takes place before the original Star Wars film, "Episode IV: A New Hope," and tells the story of a group of resistance fighters and their mission to steal the plans for the Death Star.
The teaser is short on plot details, but we received our first glimpses of the rebel team in action. "Rogue One" is the first of three planned spin-off movies set in the "Star Wars" universe at varying points in the overall timeline. We've already dissected all the intriguing plot hints in the awesome new trailer. Now, it's time to get to know the cast.
Meet the cast of "Rogue One" below.
Felicity Jones will star as a fiery young rebel named Jyn.
Jones will star as Jyn, a young woman who joins the rebellion and apparently leads the Rogue One team.
While Jones has been acting since the late '90s — she's appeared on shows like "Doctor Who" and had a minor role in "Amazing Spider-Man 2" that would have ostensibly led to a bigger part in the now-scrapped series — she received much acclaim (and an Oscar nomination) for playing Jane Hawking opposite Eddie Redmayne in the Stephen Hawking bio pic "The Theory of Everything."
Ben Mendelsohn is an imposing, unknown villain.
A character actor with a penchant for playing villainous people in the States and a longtime leading man in his native Australia, Ben Mendelsohn is an actor you've almost certainly seen (most likely as Dagget in "The Dark Knight Rises") but whose face you'll likely recognize more than his name.
Mendelsohn is an intense, unsettling performer in his best roles (like Danny Rayburn in Netflix's "Bloodline"), and appears in the trailer as a terrifying figure in white.
Mexican actor Diego Luna will also suit up to join the Rogue One team.
A Mexican actor who exploded on the scene with 2001's "Y Tu Mamá También," Diego Luna spent much of his career in Spanish-language cinema, occasionally surfacing in big films like "The Terminal" and landing a pivotal role in the Academy Award-nominated "Milk."
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