A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 1994 Del Rey/Ballantine Books and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) When Gareth Edwards' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered five months ago, many Star Wars fans - especially those who grew up with the Prequel Trilogy - were ecstatic. In this stand-alone Anthology prequel to 1977's Star Wars (aka Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope, John Knoll (who pitched the story to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy), Gary Whitta, Chris Weitz, and Tony Gilroy tell the "untold" story of how the Rebel Alliance obtained the plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star.  Older fans of George Lucas's space-fantasy series set "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," including Your Humble Correspondent, enjoy Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It is a gritty and exciting war story with a The Guns of Navarone- meets- A New Hope vibe and makes a great first half of a double feature billing that includes the original 1977 Star Wars.  Yet, Rogue One was not the

v Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan is a trusted advisor in Chancellor Palpatine's inner circle. An impassioned supporter of civic virtue, Bail regrets that to counter the Separatist threat, the Republic must deploy a newly discovered clone army. Although the Republic garners an equivocal victory at the Battle of Geonosis, it is only the first step in a much larger, carefully conceived Clone War. The noble Senator stands in somber observation as thousands of clone troopers, marching in military formation, board countless warships and disperse throughout the galaxy to new battlefronts. - From the Hasbro Star Wars Saga - Bail Organa (Alderaan Senator) action figure's package blurb   Introduced in 2003 as the 33rd action figure of the Saga line,  Bail Organa (Alderaan Senator)  is the very first figure depicting one of the future founders of the Rebel Alliance.   As "action figures" go, this is a good example of how Hasbro lavishes attention to detail on figures whose cha