With all the hype and buzz surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens currently, there was only one thing on our mind when we got the chance to interview Donnie Yen in Kuala Lumpur – ask him about his role in the next Star Wars movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, set to be released in December 2016.
Rogue One is one of several prequel films under the Star Wars Anthology umbrella, set before Episode IV: A New Hope. Yen plays a member of a team of bounty hunters hired by the Rebels to steal the Death Star plans from the Empire. The film will be directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Monsters), and will also star Felicity Jones, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, and Jiang Wen.