An original screen-used Imperial Stormtrooper helmet from Gareth Edwards' 2016 blockbuster Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first standalone film in the Star Wars saga.
Set just before the events of the original 1977 Star Wars: A New Hope, Rogue One follows a band of Rebel fighters on a desperate mission to steal the plans for the Galactic Empire's planet-destroying superweapon, the Death Star. Helmets like this one were worn by the Stormtroopers serving as the soldiers of the Imperial Navy, and the film shows just how formidable these troopers could be, as Imperial forces wipe out most of the Rebel strike team during the climactic Battle of Scarif. The white Stormtrooper armor is one of the most recognizable designs in all of cinema, originally conceived by legendary concept artist Ralph McQuarrie and realized by Oscar-winning costume designer John Mollo for the original 1977 film.
For Rogue One, the costume department faithfully recreated the classic A New Hope-era trooper for modern cameras, rebuilding the iconic helmet with fully three-dimensional vents and detailing, features that, on the original 1977 helmets, had simply been stickers. The result is the definitive high-definition realization of the original trilogy Stormtrooper, and a screen-used example bridges two eras of the saga: the design that started it all, rebuilt for the film that leads directly into it. A production-worn helmet from the Empire's most iconic soldiers stands as a true centerpiece of Star Wars history.
