Director Orson Callan Krennic is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn in the 2016 film Rogue One as the main antagonist.
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16 Facts About Orson Krennic
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Orson Krennic is the Director of Advanced Weapons Research for the Galactic Empire, and was introduced in the 2016 prequel novel Catalyst by James Luceno.
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In Knoll's original story draft of the film, Orson Krennic was a double agent on Jyn Erso's team reporting to the Imperial Security Bureau.
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The scene was cut as writers had trouble justifying why Orson Krennic would have survived the explosion the Death Star caused.
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Character of Orson Krennic is depicted as a power-hungry and ruthless Imperial weapons developer overseeing the construction of the Death Star, a space station with the capability to destroy an entire planet.
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Orson Krennic first appears in the 2016 prequel novel Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno.
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Over a decade later, Orson Krennic meets with Grand Moff Tarkin, who expresses skepticism about his management of the Death Star project.
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Once Orson Krennic has proven the station's power, the imperious Tarkin uses a recent security leak as a pretext to wrest control of the weapon away from him.
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Orson Krennic goes to Scarif as the Rebels engage Imperial forces there, and sends his Death Trooper guards into battle while he attempts to stop the Rebels from stealing the Death Star plans hidden in the Scarif Imperial facility.
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Orson Krennic is subsequently killed by the superlaser of the Death Star when it fires on Scarif at the order of Tarkin.
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Orson Krennic appears in the film novelization of Rogue One by Alexander Freed.
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Orson Krennic is a playable character in the 2015 action shooter video game Star Wars Battlefront, as part of the 2016 downloadable content Rogue One: Scarif expansion pack.
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Orson Krennic is mentioned a few times in the final season of Star Wars Rebels, but did not appear in the series due to a creative decision by Dave Filoni.
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Orson Krennic appears in Timothy Zahn's 2019 novel Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason.
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Orson Krennic has generally been received positively by critics and fans.
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