Early Version of Rogue One Features Jyn Erso’s Mother As A Jedi

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is getting its digital HD release tomorrow, and it seems like director Gareth Edwards continues to reveal a lot of fun facts about the film before the big day.

Earlier this month the director revealed an important plot point which would have made Felicity Jone's stubborn Jyn Erso a Jedi saying that there had been a moment were the production discussed whether they would make the rebel's mother a Jedi.

Now, a new interview with Edwards on Entertainment Weekly reveals a little more about the idea of making Jyn's mother a Jedi.

"The prologue, at one point a long time ago, was going to be the Empire coming to kill the Jedi," says director Gareth Edwards. "And Jyn's mom was going to be a Jedi."

Jyn seems to be in her early to mid-20's in Rogue One and with the 19 year gap between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, Jyn might have been four or six years old around the time the Emperor gave out Order 66.

"We were witnessing one of those kills and Krennic would be the person sent to do it," the director explained further.

"Our instinct told us that we wanted a scene where Jyn is orphaned because of what Krennic does, which sets her on her path of being a child of war," says Edwards. "The problem was that the second you make her mom a Jedi you spend the entire movie questioning whether Jyn is a Jedi or not. Eventually, we came up with the idea that her father should have designed the Death Star. That became a stronger way into the stealing of the Death Star plans. We let go of the mother being a Jedi, and she became just a rebellious mom."

It's a good thing too that the Rogue One team decided to give up on the idea of making Jyn's mother a Jedi. It would have just caused complications for the film's plot. Jedi aren't supposed to have attachments, so where would that leave Jyn and her father?

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