Via Techradar.com:

Star Wars: Rogue One is the next movie to hit our screens from a long time ago and a galaxy far, far away. Its full title is actually Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but that’s so lame it makes Tiny Tim look like a varsity athlete.

It’s the first live action movie to depart from the traditional episodic nature of the rest of the Star Wars movies, and an almost complete departure from the fan-favourite characters the rest of the films follow.

What’s interesting about these Star Wars ‘anthology’ movies is that they will be standalone counterpoints between the episodic releases of the main story, and won’t really be set around the Jedi or the struggle between the light and dark sides of the Force.

Rogue One in particular is being talked about in shades of grey, with a darker, grittier tone than we might have seen from any Star Wars property before.

Rogue One is also going to be set out of chronological order, potentially confusing a whole bunch of folk expecting to see the sequel to The Force Awakens, and will pre-date the very first Star Wars movie, A New Hope.

So, what do we know about Star Wars: Rogue One so far?

Star Wars: Rogue One release date

The most important news is exactly when we can expect to see the new movie: it’s going to be around one year after The Force Awakens premiered, and will be in cinemas on December 16, 2016.

Filming is apparently “virtually completed” according to Disney CEO Bob Iger, who added that he and his colleagues “absolutely love what we’ve seen so far”.

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