Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Spoilers- Mads Mikkelsen's Character is Not A Bad Guy

Although Gareth Edwards' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premieres in less than a year, we still haven't seen any footage from the actual film. We've been hearing several rumors about the film, but we'll have to wait until the first trailer to some concrete details. However, Mads Mikkelsen spoke to a Denmark news site (h/t ComicBook.com) about his character in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Here's what he said:

"No, my character is actually not a bad guy. And I cannot say any more."

That's an interesting statement since the Danish actor is notorious for playing iconic villains like Le Chiffre in Casino Royale and recently he starred as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal. He's also confirmed to play a villain in Marvel's Doctor Strange. His claim lines up with previous reports from Making Star Wars, a site with a good track record with this kind of stuff. Making Star Warsclaims to have details about Mikkelsen's character, who they describe as the chief Imperial scientist responsible for getting the completed Death Star functional. As Rogue One progresses, it turns out that he starts to feel guilty for developing a superweapon capable of inflicting mass destruction. Ultimately, Mikkelsen's character will choose to switch sides. Here's what the site said about it:

"Mads Mikkelsen (Galen appears to be his name in the film) is kind of the key to the film in a way. He is a scientist that took over the Geonosian Death Star project. He solved several of the flaws the Empire could not and is sort of a revered person in the Empire for his contributions. However, Mikkelsen's character is a Robert Oppenheimer-type character. Oppenheimer helped design the atomic bomb only to say, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." The guilt "Galen" feels for his contributions to the Empire become too much and he defects, attempting to make things right. In order to do this, he enlists the help of his only daughter…."

And Galen's only daughter is Rogue One's main lead: Felicity Jones' character, the leader of a band of rebel spies who sets off to destroy her father's greatest work. You can read more about the possible story details here.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is set to release in theaters on Dec. 16, 2016.