First Star Wars Rogue One Clip Is an Action-Packed Stormtrooper Showdown

The first clip from the upcoming Star Wars spinoff Rogue One has arrived. It's an action-packed scene that sees Felicity Jones' Jyn Erso and Diego Luna's Cassian Andor fighting a bunch of Stormtroopers. Check it out below:

Rogue One is set before the original Star Wars, and focuses on a group of mercenaries who are hired to capture the plans to the Death Star. It is directed by Godzilla's Gareth Edwards and also stars Riz Ahmed, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, and Mads Mikkelsen.

In a recent interview with Variety, Ahmed spoke about his experience of working on a film of Rogue One's size for the first time. "I don't think there is anything like a Star Wars film when it comes to scale," he said. "It was my first studio movie, so to go from Nightcrawler to this was absolutely a big shift. I'm not going to lie--to see a thousand film extras dressed as Stormtroopers, that's gonna freak anyone out.

"The biggest difference [between a small film and a large film] was that you had a bit more time, which is a gift and a curse, because you can go back and redo things, which to someone like me is great because of how obsessive I am. I also think you can have too much time to think about things, which is not always good."

Advance tickets for Rogue One went on sale on Monday. Variety is reporting that the movie has netted the second-highest first day of pre-sales in US box office history.

Box office estimates peg it at making $130 million or more for its December 16-18 opening weekend in the US. That would be the second-biggest December US opening ever, behind only 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.