Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s Editors Should Get Due Credit For Reshoot Success

As far as what went on in filming and production, and what was delivered in the final product, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story may have had a couple off differences. In some cases, there were even some glaring ones, which were shot deliberately to perhaps present editors with a different take on a specific scenario.

Film editors John Gilroy and Colin Goudie shared with Yahoo Movies UK what they had done for Rogue One. Specifically, Goudie shared that their work began as early as planning the timing of the scenes. A script is one thing, but the actual delivery of the lines may differ, which is why they were part of the process that ensured proper timing was achieved.

When looking at the original materials from the first assemblies, the team of editors already knew editing was required somewhere down the line.

"I think everyone knew, from the offset, everything was always scheduled from day one for there to be pickups like on every film. We did exactly the same thing on Monsters, we always knew we were going to go back and do pickups, and it was the same thing with Rogue One, it was just something that was on the schedule."

If the editing and reshoots did not happen, Gilroy and Goudie shared that their job had been to ensure that the best takes reached the final cut—and in the proper order that they needed to be presented.

"[The reshoots] gave you the film that you see today. I think they were incredibly helpful. The story was reconceptualized to some degree, there were scenes that were added at the beginning and fleshed out."

Gilroy used the example of scenes such as Cassian's introduction with the spy Bodhi going to Saw and the setup for Jyn and her escape had been added as reshoots to make the story better.

"Of course, things like that have a ripple effect all through the movie so there was a lot of work to do, and as Colin said, there were three of us, we rolled up our sleeves and we got to work and made the movie you see."

Indeed, editing and presenting the story is an art of its own. Considering the kind of pacing and storytelling that happened in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I think credit is due to the team of editors as well.

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