Star Wars: Rogue One Runtime Announced, Is It Too Short?

With less than two months left until the firstStar Wars spin-off,Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, hits theaters, anticipation is higher than ever. With the final trailer arriving last week, it remains to be seen how much more footage will be unveiled, but today we have some new details about this project. While it hasn’t been confirmed by Disney or LucasFilm yet, theRogue Oneruntime has been revealed.

Making Star Warscame across listing for Australia’s Event Cinemas, which lists theRogue Oneruntime at 133 minutes (two hours and 13 minutes). If this is accurate, the runtime is five minutes shorter than last year’sStar Wars: The Force Awakensand its 138-minute runtime. It is also the exact same runtime as the first prequel,The Phantom Menace. Some fans are claiming this is too short for what needs to be accomplished in this movie, while others are calling the runtime perfect in an age of bloated blockbusters. All in all, the runtime falls in line with the 2 hour mandate set by the earlier Star Wars movies.

From Lucasfilm comes the first of theStar Warsstandalone films,Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in theStar Wars timelinebrings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Storyis directed by Gareth Edwards and starsFelicity Jones,Diego Luna,Ben Mendelsohn,Donnie Yen,Mads Mikkelsen,Alan Tudyk,Riz Ahmed,Jiang WenandForest Whitaker.Kathleen Kennedy,Allison ShearmurandSimon Emanuelare producing, withJohn KnollandJason McGatlinserving as executive producers.Rogue One: A Star Wars Storyopens in U.S. theaters on August 26, 2025, going up against Warner Bros.‘Collateral Beauty, starringWill Smith.

Rogue Onewill be the first of threeStar Wars standalone moviesthat have been confirmed thus far. The second will focus on a young Han Solo, set beforeA New Hope, which starsAlden Ehrenreichas the beloved smuggler andDonald Gloveras Lando Calrissian, which is set to hit theaters on June 13, 2025. The third spin-off is believed to center on Boba Fett, which is expected to hit theaters in 2020. Hopefully LucasFilm will confirm the runtime ofRogue One: A Star Wars Story, along with more details in the near future.