'Star Wars: The Radio Drama' Episode Review: 'Points of Origin'
(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 ...