Star Wars: Rogue One is hiding secret messages in its new IMAX advertisement

Star Wars: Rogue One blends the spy and heist genres of film, and the movie's marketing team has embraced this with aplomb. A new standee making its ways to IMAX theaters shows the core group of rebels with Death Star schematics and words written in Aurebesh, the fictional alphabet of Star Wars, hovering around them. Most interestingly, the words aren't just for show - this ad is hiding secret Imperial propaganda.

While most of the writing appears to be gibberish, ComicBook.com has translated a few of the messages, and they all have dire implications for our rebel scum-- I mean, friends. Check 'em out:

Directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, and Alan Tudyk, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is scheduled to open in UK on December 15, 2016 and in the US a day later.

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