Recently it was misreported that after an initial screening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story that Lucasfilm was worried about the tone of the movie and had scheduled "emergency reshoots" to add more humor and Star Wars charm to the movie. With EW covering the movie in their latest issue both Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and the movies British director Gareth Edwards have taken the opportunity to set the record set and assure fans that the aforementioned reshoots were always part of the production of the movie. Speaking to EW Godzilla director Edwards explained...
“I mean it was always part of the plan to do reshoots. We always knew we were coming back somewhere to do stuff. We just didn’t know what it would be until we started sculpting the film in the edit. There’s lots of little things that we have to get, but it’s all little things within the preexisting footage. Obviously, you’ve got to work around everyone’s schedule, and everyone’s on different films all over the world, and so it’s a bit of a logistical nightmare…That’s why I think it’s been blown out of proportion a little bit.”
Lucasfilm President Kennedy, currently one of the most influential women in Hollywood reaffirmed that fans need not be concerned...
“There’s nothing about the story that’s changing, with a few things that we’re picking up in additional photography…I think that’s the most important thing, to reassure fans that it’s the movie we intended to make. [Edwards] does a lot of handheld, intimate, close-up work. That’s not something you’ve necessarily seen in a “Star Wars” movie before…And we brought in [cinematographer] Greig Fraser, to shoot it, who had done “Zero Dark Thirty.” So a combination of Greig and Gareth has been, I think, fantastic, and it just gives it a really unique style.”
Post production on Rogue One is reported to be on track for completion by the end of September, and will be the first Star Wars Movie not to be scored by the legendary composer John Williams, with Alexandre Desplat scoring the movie instead, although we suspect some of Williams' famous music will be used in the more iconic moments such as Darth Vaders Imperial March.
