Rogue One Filmmakers Discuss Reshoot Concerns

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When we heard reports about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was getting reshoots, many interpreted it as a sign of trouble for the Gareth Edwards-helmed standalone film. While that may be true to some films that did reshoots, it's usually a norm for projects with big budgets. Even Mads Mikkelsen clarified that point recently. While some rumors have been debunked, many are still questioning the reasons why they had to return to the set, and now, the filmmakers talked to Entetainment Weekly to address the reshoot concerns.

"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," director Gareth Edwards told EW. "There's lots of little things that we have to get, but it's all little things within the preexisting footage,"

Edwards described the material that needed to be reshot: "There's lots of little things that we have to get, but it's all little things within the preexisting footage," he said.

Edwards thought a lot of the rumors were just blown out of proportion. "It's funny, making a film stops you believing anything you've ever read on the Internet," he said.

"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," he explained. "That's why I think it's been blown out of proportion a little bit."

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy resassured fans that Rogue One is the film they intended to make, and that nothin is changing in the story. Kennedy talked about the tone of the film: "One of the things we're doing with these Star Wars stories is embracing the uniqueness of the different genres, and we're very deliberately leaning into the various styles of directors that we're approaching so that each of these movies will very intentionally have a very different tone and style from the saga films," Kennedy told EW, referring to the trilogy films. "Gareth has shown a stylistic preference that's much more handheld, visceral, inside-the-action kind of feel."

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theaters on December 16.

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