Actor Ben Mendelsohn, who you might recognize from Netflix's Bloodline, is crossing to the Dark Side for Rogue One. Mendelsohn will be playing the highly ambitious Director Orson Krennic, an Imperial officer in the First Galactic Empire who is eager to impress the Emperor by any means necessary. Although his position within the Empire forces him to interact and cooperate with Darth Vader, they're not exactly friends.
“There is a lot of palace intrigue going on in the Empire, with people conspiring to move up the ranks and sabotaging each other,” producer John Knoll told EW. “There’s not a lot of loyalty there.” This competition is what presumably has Krennic so fired up to find and destroy Jyn Erso and the rest of the Rebel team tasked with taking down the Empire's Death Star. If his character has any shred of the intensity General Hux does in The Force Awakens, we'll be in for a real treat.
