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Rogue One Director Explains The Blu-Ray DVD Release’s Lack of Deleted Scenes


There was a lot of outrage in the Star Wars community last month when fans learned that the Blu-Ray Dvd of the epic Rogue One: A Star Wars Story wasn't going to come with a bonus feature that many look forward to in home releases: deleted scenes. There were numerous shots from the film's trailers that didn't make it into the theatrical release, and many were hoping to see the deleted material in Rogue One's DVD.

Now, in an interview with Fandango, Rogue One director Gareth Edwards explains why the DVD release of the film wouldn't provide any of the highly sought after deleted scenes.

"There's not an individual scene that you can drag and drop and put on a Blu-ray," Edwards reassured. "There are little things that would come and go during the process of post-production, but they're not scenes. They're more moments within the scenes, or a single shot. So it's impossible to be able to do that, and that's why the decision was made."

"The stuff people talk about, like what they saw in the trailer, they're not scenes you can just put on a DVD. They're moments within scenes and threads, and you pull a thread and it all changes. It was changing the whole time. It's not like there was one version and then there was this other version -- it was like this thing that incrementally evolved constantly through all of postproduction and didn't stop until there was a gun at our heads and we were forced to release the movie."

Without any full deleted film sequences, Edwards and the rest of the Rogue One crew won't have any deleted scenes to offer. Maybe moments, but not really any full scene to fit as a bonus feature in the DVD release. It's a shame yes, but at least fans finally get the explanation that they deserve.

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