Star Wars Producers Confirm Gay Couple the Franchise

ROGUE ONE: MOVE OVER FN AND POE, IS THIS STAR WARS' FIRST OFFICIAL GAY UPLE?
ROGUE ONE: ARE THE THE GAY STAR WARS CHARACTERS WE’VE BEEN LOOKG FOR?
ARE THE THE GAY STAR WARS CHARACTERS WE’VE BEEN LOOKG FOR?
WHY PEOPLE THK THE 'ROGUE ONE' CHARACTERS ARE GAY
“STAR WARS” MIGHT HAVE JT TRODUCED THEIR FIRST GAY UPLE WH “ROGUE ONE” AND ’S ABOUT TIME
DID ROGUE ONE INTRODUCE STAR WARS' FIRST ON SCREEN GAY CHARACTERS?
ARE TWO STAR WARS ROGUE ONE CHARACTERS IN A GAY RELATNSHIP?
DID THE NEW STAR WARS FILM ‘ROGUE ONE’ JT DEBUT THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST GAY CHARACTERS? [SPOILERS]
‘STAR WARS’ HAS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTERS? NOT A BAD THEORY
ROGUE ONE: DO THE NEW STAR WARS FILM FEATURE THE ANCHISE’S FIRST GAY UPLE?
STAR WARS PRODUCERS CONFIRM GAY COUPLE THE FRANCHISE

ROGUE ONE: MOVE OVER FN AND POE, IS THIS STAR WARS' FIRST OFFICIAL GAY UPLE?

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story IMAX FeaturetteWhether s Fdg Dory havg to sneak s same-sex uple wh a quick meo, or Ghostbters' Pl Feig bucklg unr the stud prsure preventg him om officially nfirmg Kate McKnon's character the film is gay, filmmakers are still havg to speak when to LGBT reprentatn; a trope that hasn't changed sce Holllywood's early days. In a movie full of vlence and blaster fights, ’s the most tenr thg that happens over two hours, and sce happens between two men, got me wonrg: Has the Star Wars anchise fally troduced the gay characters that many fans have been clamorg for?

Skeptics will acce of readg way too much to a simple iendship and s sgle affectnate gture, but stud movi often speak when to gay characters: The sential documentary The Celluloid Closet trac those pictns back for nearly a century as shows how movi would prent gay characters wh enough plsible niabily to fly over the heads of straight dienc but wh plenty of signifiers that iendly gay dienc would be likely to pick up on. This past year alone, there have been several d characters highly expensive stud movi: Ghostbters director Pl Feig all but nfirmed that Kate McKnon’s fan-favore character was ls than straight, while the brief sight of two women phg a baby rriage Fdg Dory had any gay person or cy dweller certa they were lookg at two moms.

You would thk that as the untry be more progrsive on gay issu and as gay characters appear on televisn wh creasg equency, blockbters movi would be a ltle braver and a lot ls y.

ROGUE ONE: ARE THE THE GAY STAR WARS CHARACTERS WE’VE BEEN LOOKG FOR?

Still, to borrow the language om a petg space epic, nonized gay characters rema the fal ontier for this anchise. They’ll likely take to Baze and Chirt, too, but maybe someday this galaxy far, far away, the gay characters n be not jt touted by the fans but nfirmed by the filmmakers.

ARE THE THE GAY STAR WARS CHARACTERS WE’VE BEEN LOOKG FOR?

Are The Rogue One Characters Gay? And unlike the suggted gay romance between Poe Dameron and Fn 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was pooh-poohed by actor John Boyega, Rogue One’s director Gareth Edwards has admted that he is happy for people to read to that potential love tert.

Director Gareth Edwards is happy wh the suatn (Picture: Disney Films)However spe suatns by fans of the anchise, there has yet to be an openly gay character the seri – although The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams nfirmed 2015 there would be one, at some pot. So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world.

“Star Wars” might have jt troduced their first gay uple wh “Rogue One” and ’s about timeThere’s one relatnship that stands out above the rt and Rogue One, and no, ’s not Cassian Ando and his sassy droid, K-2SO (though, they are an adorable pair).

WHY PEOPLE THK THE 'ROGUE ONE' CHARACTERS ARE GAY

Wh that beg said, mak plete sense for Star Wars to, fally, feature a gay uple.

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And as turns out, uld be the first Star Wars film wh gay characters on 's the popular theory onle about the characters Baze Malb and Chirt Îmwe. "So aga to the qutn: are they a gay uple? Some on the web have wonred whether the closens between Chirt Îmwe (Donnie Yen) and Baze Malb (Jiang Wen) go beyond iendship, and whether they’re actually gay.

“STAR WARS” MIGHT HAVE JT TRODUCED THEIR FIRST GAY UPLE WH “ROGUE ONE” AND ’S ABOUT TIME

Wh both films though, there’s nothg the movie that fively pots to beg gay, rather than jt a close male iendship. Any [gay] subtext, I thk, is certaly … people like to enjoy the films on many different levels, and if people are enjoyg on that level – that’s . It's also makg news for reasons ncerng the movie's plot: some are speculatg that the first two gay characters have jt ma their but the Star Wars universe: Jiang Wen and Donnie Yen as Jedha nativ Baze Malb and Chirt Imwe.

DID ROGUE ONE INTRODUCE STAR WARS' FIRST ON SCREEN GAY CHARACTERS?

Any [gay] subtext, I thk, is certaly… people like to enjoy the films on many different levels, and if people are enjoyg on that level – that's . Pixar quietly clud s first gay uple a blk-and-you’ll-miss- scene “Fdg Dory” earlier this year, and now speculatn has begun that another Disney-owned property has followed su.

Buchanan not that movi are often y their pictn of homosexual characters, htg at such unns rather than makg them explic.

Abrams, who directed last year’s “The Force Awakens, ” nfirmed that there were ed gay characters long ago a galaxy far, far away; “ seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world, ” he said earlier this year. Any [gay] subtext, I thk, is certaly … people like to enjoy the films on many different levels, and if people are enjoyg on that level – that’s ”, he said. Earlier this year JJ Abrams, director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, said he thought would be impossible not to clu gay characters upg films.

ARE TWO STAR WARS ROGUE ONE CHARACTERS IN A GAY RELATNSHIP?

“To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibily, ” he told The Daily Beast, “So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world. Last year’s film featured a close bond between Ristance pilot Poe Dameron (Osr Isaac) and stormtrooper Fn (John Boyega) – wh mours spreadg that filmmakers were settg up a gay romance between two of the space epic’s ma characters.

Yo, FnPoe, I'ma let you fish, but Rogue One 's Chirt and Baze might be the first gay Star Wars uple ever to be featured onscreen. And the fans and Chirt's ambiguo relatnship has already spired a great number of thkpiec, such as Vulture's "Are The the Gay Star Wars Characters We've Been Lookg For?, " and fans are nng wh whether was tend or not.

It turns out that there's been a gay uple the anchise for a ltle while.

DID THE NEW STAR WARS FILM ‘ROGUE ONE’ JT DEBUT THE FRANCHISE’S FIRST GAY CHARACTERS? [SPOILERS]

Star Wars Ristance producers Jt Ridge and Brandon Auman have nfirmed that Orka and Flix are fact a gay uple and have been sce their the latt episo of the Coffee Wh Kenobi podst (via 9), Ridge and Auman nfirmed that the duo who mans the Office of Acquisns the Coloss are a lovg gay uple. "They're absolutely a gay uple and we're proud of that, " Auman ia that Orka (voiced by Bobby Moynihan) and Flix (voiced by Jim Rash) are a uple isn't one that is exactly new for fans.

It also mak the pair the first openly gay uple to be portrayed on screen the Star Wars universe -- though that isn't likely to stop fans om ntug to ship Fn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Osr Isaac) om the live actn Skywalker Saga. '"While Or and Flix are the first on-screen characters to be nfirmed as a gay uple, they aren't the only characters -non to fall unr the LGBTQ+ banner.

It's also worth at least notg that while Or and Flix as a gay uple is certaly a step the right directn, they're also male-d non-humanoids (Orka is a Chadra-Fan, Flix don't have an official signatn).

‘STAR WARS’ HAS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTERS? NOT A BAD THEORY

Fans are still wag for a gay humanoid Wars Ristance's send season (and fal) buts on Friday, October 6 on Disney Channel.

I read om one of the creator's terviews that thoands of galaxi there has to be gay relatnships. He didn't mentn anythg about Chirt and Baze om Rogue One, but I hear throughout the ter suggtg that they are a gay uple.

ROGUE ONE: DO THE NEW STAR WARS FILM FEATURE THE ANCHISE’S FIRST GAY UPLE?

Any [gay] subtext, I thk, is.