Why Star Wars: Rogue One Needed Reshoots, According To Gareth Edwards
When talking about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, there’s one subject that’s becomes an unavoidable topic of conversation: the film’s storied re-shoots. Once thought to be a sheer product of studio notes, the truth has been decoded over time. Of course, there isn’t much decoding left to do now that director Gareth Edwards has given a pretty comprehensive statement on what lead to the additional re-tooling of his entry into Star Wars history, and believe it or not, the decision was more organic than most would have you believe.
The L.A. Times spoke with Edwards recently, and his recap of the situation begins with noticing how the tone of the version of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story that was being crafted at the moment could go in a million directions. Gareth Edwards started to recall the situation as follows:
What happened was that I’d say a third of the movie or more has this embedded documentary style to it, and as a result we shot hours and hours and days and days of material. Normally when you put a film together it goes together like A-B-C-D-E and you move on. Whereas we had so many permutations, so many different ways it could be constructed, it took longer in the edit to find the exact version.
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