The novel had been filmed in 1941 by Fritz Lang, as Man Hunt, with Walter Pidgeon in the lead role. Soon afterwards, Britain declares war against Germany, and Hunter, now with his status restored, agrees to see the Admiralty about a secret mission (heavily implied to be a second attempt on Hitler's life). Over the course of several days, Hunter constructs a rudimentary crossbow, lures Quive-Smith into looking down his breathing hole, and shoots him in the head, killing him. Rather than kill Hunter, Quive-Smith offers to spare his life if he signs a false confession stating that he attempted to assassinate Hitler on behalf of British intelligence. Hunter's lead pursuer, an English Nazi sympathizer named Major Quive-Smith, successfully tracks him to his lair and traps him within it. It is revealed through flashbacks that his girlfriend, who played a role in organizing the German Resistance, was executed by the Nazi government. After killing a pursuer by electrocuting him on the London Underground, Sir Robert, now a fugitive, goes underground in rural England to escape his pursuers. He soon discovers that German agents are after him, and that the Nazi government has requested his extradition. However, Hunter survives the fall, and, with the aid of a German fisherman and a friendly sailor, makes his way back to England. Because of his high status in Britain, his captors intend to shoot him and disguise it as a hunting accident, but, because his body displays clear evidence of torture, they decide instead to throw him off of a cliff to disguise the signs. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, he claims that his aiming at Hitler was simply an intellectual exercise, to see if it could be done.
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It also allows the movie to plug in to another element of the war movie genre - who doesn’t love a good fighter pilot story? - and play with what it’s like to be “just” a soldier in the intergalactic conflict, as opposed to one of the movers and shakers responsible for the major victories.In early 1939, before the start of the Second World War, Sir Robert Hunter (O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle, but hesitates to shoot and is spotted and tackled by a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard. Read more ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ Release Date RevealedĪssuming the speculation is correct, it could be a smart move to focus the first stand-alone project on the X-Wing fighters of the Rebellion it offers a framework that is familiar to fans of the franchise to date, but one that’s been left pretty much unexplored outside of Luke Skywalker’s interactions with them in the original trilogy. Indeed, the news that Felicity Jones has been the first actor announced for the movie suggests that she might be the title character, giving us - finally! - female pilots in the Star Wars universe after they got cut from Return of the Jedi 30 years ago.
This doesn’t mean that the movie might not focus on the early career of Antilles, and recast the part - or, of course, simply put a new character in the Rogue Squadron pole position altogether. After all, the 67-year-old Lawson might not be interested in reprising the role, nor might Disney be interested in maintaining such tight continuity with the Star Wars: The Force Awakens timeline for its stand-alone installments in the series.
Previously, that role was filled by Wedge Antilles, a character that appeared in the original trilogy, played by Denis Lawson, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that he would be the Rogue One in any future movie projects. Rogue One, going by the internal logic of the original Star Wars movie, is either the leader of that particular group of pilots, or the first pilot in the squadron outside of the leader (The confusion comes from the fact that the movies have established a “Rogue leader,” but it’s unclear if he’s also known as Rogue One). See more Meet the ‘Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens’ Cast (Photos)
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