Vi lär oss i filmen att namnet "Rogue One" hänvisar till kallesignalen av gruppen som gick för att fånga planerna för Death Star. Eftersom filmen kretsar kring ursprungsberättelsen för denna udda rag-taggrupp av rebeller, tycks filmen efter dem vara mest lämplig.
Namnet resoneras med filmens regissör, Gareth Edwards, av flera olika skäl, med hänvisning till filmen, samtalsnamnet på enheten men även huvudpersonen Jyn Erso.
"I'd been thinking about it,” he reflects in the new issue of Empire. “What does it mean? 'Rogue One’ is a military call sign to some extent,” he adds, referring to Red Squadron during the Battle of Yavin, "but this is the first film that's gone off-piste and is not part of the saga – or the Anakin story – so it’s the 'rogue' one, you know?”
There’s potentially another meaning to it too, relating to Felicity Jones’ interplanetary guerrilla Jyn Erso. She also has a rogue streak; a touch of the Han Solos in her drive to do what’s right, regardless of how much shit she has to blow up en route. “It's kind of describing her as well in a similar way,” says Edwards. “It has [all] these split, multiple meanings that made it feel like the right choice."
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