Darth Vader looms over Felicity Jones in new poster from 'Rogue One'

Director Gareth Edwards unveiled a new poster for upcoming film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on the latest episode of the Star Wars show. Edwards had exciting news for fans, revealing that the film's latest trailer would be released on Thursday on Good Morning America.

New #RogueOne poster revealed by Director Gareth Edwards, as seen on The #StarWarsShow today. Plus, see the new trailer tomorrow morning! pic.twitter.com/qFsMYp2NdG

— Star Wars (@starwars) October 12, 2016

The new poster shines the spotlight on Felicity Jones as her character Jyn Erso dominates the poster. Darth Vader lurks in the background along with the Death Star, with the blueprint of the galactic weapon superimposed on Jones' face.

The poster also features the rest of the cast— Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker, but with no sign of Mads Mikkelsen.

Below the characters, one can see stormtroopers in action.

Episode IV of Star Wars began with Princess Leia smuggling out the blueprint of the weapon on R2D2, so that rebels could figure out a way to disable it. Rogue One will feature the events right before Star Wars: A New Hope as the rebel alliance plans to steal the blueprint of the Death Star. 

Felicity Jones reveals what it was like finding out she'd been cast in the 'Star Wars' spinoff, #RogueOne https://t.co/1P9owqbOLE pic.twitter.com/FZ6Adr3GNT

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 12, 2016

The revived Star Wars franchise has a big line-up of films with one release per year up till 2020. Episode VIII, directed by Rian Johnson, will release in December 2017. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will release in the US on December 16.