Win Free Tickets to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Test your knowledge in our trivia contest
Looking to catch the latest film in the Star Wars franchise with a friend for free and in 3-D? Enter our trivia contest by 1 p.m. today for a chance to win two free tickets to tonight’s screening at Regal Fenway Stadium 13. Poster courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Break out your lightsabers and don your costumes: the latest film in the Star Wars franchise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, opens today. Easily the most anticipated Hollywood movie of the year, it’s the first in a series of Star Wars Anthology films, set before the events of the original Star Wars film. Rogue One stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, and Ben Mendelsohn.
There’s been so much excitement building around its release that fans crashed Fandango’s website shortly after tickets for the first showings were released online. Early reports project that Rogue One could gross more than $130 million this weekend. To celebrate, BU Today is hosting a trivia contest: the lucky winner will score two tickets to a screening tonight at Regal Fenway Stadium 13.
To enter, answer the questions below and email them to today@bu.edu by 1 p.m. today, Friday, December 16. Be sure to include your phone number, email address, and BU affiliation. Each person answering all questions correctly will be entered in a drawing for two tickets to tonight’s 3-D showing of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story at 7 p.m. at Regal Fenway Stadium 13, 201 Brookline Ave., Boston.
We’ll contact the lucky winner and announce their name on BU Today by 2 p.m., so be sure to check back this afternoon.
- Rogue One, the first of three announced Star Wars Anthology films, focuses on Rebel efforts to bring down the Empire. The next two films in the series are slated to focus on the origins of what two iconic Star Wars characters?
- This is the first Star Wars film whose score was not composed by Oscar winner John Williams (Hon.’85). Who is the Oscar-winning composer of the Rogue One score?
- What two famous sisters did Felicity Jones beat out for the lead role of Jyn Erso?
- Rogue One is only the third film directed by Gareth Edwards. He was tapped as director based on his work on what recent blockbuster?
- Which of the film’s stars is not only an Oscar winner, but also the fourth recipient of the Boston University Martin Luther King, Jr., Fellowship?
- The Star Wars films have code names during production, most famously Blue Harvest for A New Hope for the first film. What was the code name for Rogue One during filming?
- Actor Ben Mendelsohn, no stranger to major film franchises, plays Orson Krennic, a director in the Imperial Military. He appeared as a villain in what 2012 hit superhero film?
- The eighth Star Wars film, set to premiere in 2017, is directed by what filmmaker known for AMC’s Breaking Bad?
- In the film, Felicity Jones’ father is played by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in which movie featured in a previous BU Today ticket giveaway?
- The new film marks the return to the franchise of what iconic movie villain?
Catch a preview of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story here.
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