Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, directed by Gareth Edwards, definitely will be undergoing reshoots just as Star Wars: The Force Awakens did before it was released as well as Paramount’s next installment of Star Trek. With so much riding on these franchises, it’s gotta be good. The New York Post first reported the do-over on Rogue One; however, to clarify, there were no test screenings and rather a re-shoot decision was made after Disney suits and producers watched the initial cut of the highly anticipated first spinoff.
In fact, Disney never screened The Force Awakens before a test audience.
According to sources, the first cut was lacking the edge that Force Awakens had, and the story needs to jell. The film’s December 16 release date will not be affected, according to one insider — and with Comic-Con fast approaching, hopefully the studio might be able to tease fans with at least a little something.
Rogue One stars Felicity Jones, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker and Mads Mikkelsen, and Alden Ehrenreich might make a cameo appearance as Han Solo, much like Mark Hamil did as Luke Skywalker in Force Awakens. Darth Vader is expected to be in it too.
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Deadline reported first back in April that Ehrenreich was closing in on the plum role of Han Solo in a stand-alone Star Wars installment, so this picture is the perfect launching pad for the next one. We also reported that the project and the casting have been shrouded in secrecy — to the point of it being referred to as project Red Cup (as in Solo cups).
Episode VII (The Force Awakens), which also required about three weeks of re-shoots, made a whopping $2.07B worldwide after smashing a number of box office records.
not every Star Wars movie needs to have the same tone and feel. The MCU while all superhero movies have played with different genres:
First Avenger – period adventure serial
Thor Dark World – cosmic action
Guardians of the Galaxy – Space Opera
Winter Soldier – Tom Clancyesque Political Thriller
Rogue One should be a gritty Dirty Dozen/Guns of Navarone war movie to steal the death star plans. not some light hearted comedic romp to hit the four quadrants on the exec spreadsheet formula.
Lots of hate here for anything new that is STAR WARS it seems – it’s like the prequels all over again!
Look, I LOVED TFA and people here need to relax and just take this as a side-story in the vein of The Clone Wars or Rebels animated series.
Yes Disney wants to Marvel-up the Star Wars franchise (why else spend 4 Billion on original characters IP etc) – cash grabs and quality are not mutually exclusive, and reshoots do NOT always mean Fox reboot Fantastic Four-style disaster…
If they had the writers of the Game of Thrones and some of the directors for those shows on HBO then this movie would be amazing.
Actually check that, me and my brother could have written and directed a better movie than the force awakens.
Schadenfreude is part of the fun.
Can we stop calling these “re-shoots” and talking as if it is a bad thing? Shooting a movie, watching a cut of the movie, and continuing to shoot and make decisions that can benefit the movie is a good thing. Any filmmaker would be lucky to have that opportunity. Smart independent films do this too. Filming a movie is not like landing an Olympic ski jump. It does not have to be perfect. The entire editorial process (not to mention sound, color, visual effects) is about seeing through the filmmaker’s vision and making the best movie. Shaming directors for doing the dreaded “re-shoots” is lazy and shows a lack of knowledge for how films are made.