perksofbeingafanboy:

“It’s set in an era where there are no Jedi, they’re all but extinct, it’s about the fact that God’s not coming to save us. We’re on our own - and we have to do this ourselves and turn around. The absence of the Jedi is omnipresent - it hangs over the whole movie - and it comes down to a group of individuals that don’t have magical powers but have to somehow bring hope to the galaxy.”

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)