Research scientist Galen Erso and his family are in hiding on the planet Lah'mu. Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic arrives to press him into completing the Death Star, a space station-based superweapon capable of destroying planets. Galen's wife Lyra is killed in the confrontation while their daughter Jyn escapes and is rescued by Rebel Saw Gerrera.
Fifteen years later, cargo pilot Bodhi Rook defects from the Empire, taking a holographic message recorded by Galen to Gerrera on the desert moon Jedha. After learning about the Death Star from an agent at the mining colony Ring of Kafrene, Rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor frees Jyn from an Imperial labor camp at Wobani before bringing her to the Rebel leader Mon Mothma, who convinces her to find and rescue Galen so the Alliance can learn more about the Death Star. Cassian is covertly ordered to kill Galen rather than extract him.
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MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
Genre: | Action, Adventure, Sci Fi |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | John Knoll, Finni Johannsson, Allison Shearmur, Zakaria Alaoui, Kiri Hart, Simon Emanuel, John Swartz, Tony To, Jason D. Mcgatlin, Kathleen Kennedy |
Directed By: | Gareth Edwards |
Written By: | Tony Gilroy, John Knoll, George Lucas, Chris Weitz, Gary Whitta |
Cast: | Jimmy Smits, Jonathan Aris, Andrei Satalov, James Earl Jones, Valene Kane, Daniel Eghan, Russell Balogh, Sam Wilkinson, Luke Hope, Riz Ahmed, Emeson Nwolie, Jorge Leon Martinez, Mads Mikkelsen, Shina Shihoko Nagai, Tony Toste, Wen Jiang, J. David Hinze, Arthur L. Bernstein, Diego Luna, Ned Dennehy, Tyrone Love, Forest Whitaker, Attila G. Kerekes, Alan Tudyk, Eunice Olumide, Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Steen Young, James Henri-Thomas, Warwick Davis, Mac Pietowski, Ben Mendelsohn, Alistair Petrie, Genevieve O'Reilly, Angus Cook |
In Theaters: | Dec 16, 2016 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 13 minutes |
Production: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Box Office: | $532,171,696 |
Available On: | Netflix |