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The films will instead be released under the 'A Star Wars Story' banner. The film marks a change in Disney and Lucasfilm's classification of the standalone spin-off movies as Star Wars Anthology films, announced at Star Wars Celebration. The press release gave us this info about the cast: The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008's Oscar-winning MilkВ and 2013's Elysium Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in BloodlineВ and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip ManВ and Blade II Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award-winning Let the Bullets FlyВ and Devils on the Doorstep Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically-acclaimed Lee Daniels' The ButlerВ and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The HuntВ and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance-capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon-to-be-released Con ManВ series and Trumbo, which releases this November and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in NightcrawlerВ and starred in the BAFTA-winning film Four Lions. Left to Right: Actors Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Felicity Jones, Jiang Wen and Donnie Yen.

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