'What Will You Become?' Forest Whitaker's Character from ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY is

Meet Rebel Saw Gerrera, the battered, bitter but not broken hero from the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Forest Whitaker’s character had been one of the more closely guarded secrets, but Lucasfilm recently made his identity known to fans worldwide.

“Consider him kind of a battered veteran who leads a band of Rebel extremists,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said in Entertainment Weekly interview recently. “He’s on the fringe of the Rebel Alliance. Even [they] are a little concerned about him. One reason we saved his reveal until now, in addition to him having a deeper backstory than the other new characters, is that Saw is an ally to the Rebel squad in Rogue One, but he’s not really one of them. He’s off on his own."

Saw Gerrera was first seen in season 5 of The Clone Wars animated series (which is now streaming on Netflix), when he was a young man on the planet Onderon, unleashing guerilla combat on the droid army of Separatists who took over his world. Along with his sister, Steela, he fought alongside Darth Vader — back when the Sith lord was a young Jedi named Anakin Skywalker. In the episode A War on Two Fronts, Saw and Steela were part of an insurgent group being unofficially trained by Anakin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the padawan Ahsoka Tano.

If you haven't had a chance to check out the series, you should see it before Rogue One is released in December 2016.

See the official trailer of Rogue One below.

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