Possible Story and Character Details For Rogue one: A Star Wars Story

Possible spoilers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ahead, so tread carefully.

Some interesting new possible information regarding the plot of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has come to light. So far, we know that the story is about a team of resistance fighters who are on a dangerous mission to steal the plans to the Empire's Death Star.

Now, thanks to Making Star Wars, we got some rumored details about Felicity Jones' character and Mads Mikkelsen's Galen.

Check out the spoiler-filled information that the site shared here:

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….

Felicity Jones' character has to undo the devastation her family has unleashed onto the galaxy. Early versions of this character had her as a bounty hunter type of mercenary. But with the familial connections it appears as if this idea might not interface with the final stuff for the character so I'm hesitant to say she's a bounty hunter/mercenary type in the final iterations of the film. I believe she is probably a scientist-type herself in character of the mission to get the plans, aided by bounty hunters, in this final iteration. (But I could be wrong about that part.)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is being directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla), and will be released on Dec. 16, 2016. It's the most highly-anticipated film of 2016, according to Fandango. The first trailer is rumored to be attached with Captain America: Civil War.