

Plus Ben Mendelsohn is an excellent actor, and judging by the trailers he had a great time chewing the scenery. I’ve read Catalyst, the film’s prequel novel, and Krennic is actually a fairly interesting and enjoyable character whom I can’t wait to see inevitably die, probably by way of a Force-obstructed windpipe. It looks like Rogue One will be operating under the same villain model, with Vader lurking around as a secondary bad guy, while the role of main antagonist is assumed by discount Tarkin, Director Orson Krennic. Vader stood around, killed a guy or two, and looked scary, but Tarkin, the stuffy old British guy, was the one calling all the shots. A lot of people forget this, but Darth Vader wasn’t the main antagonist of the original Star Wars, it was Grand Moff Tarkin.
