Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16) *SPOILERS*

[Centurion]

I just got an email from my local 15/70 IMAX theatre that they're bringing back RO for one more week starting tomorrow until Logan hits. Don't tempt me damn you!



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Correction: It will actually be in 3D this time so it won't be the 15/70 film transfer. Hmm 3D projected onto the 7 story screen...

Awesome! First time I saw this was in IMAX 3D.
Why can't they do that for the home release? Damn it Disney!

 

[Khev]

What do you mean? RO will be available in both 2D and 3D at home.

 

[Centurion]

What do you mean? RO will be available in both 2D and 3D at home.

My bad. I thought this wasn't in the IMAX aspect ratio

 

[Khev]

Ah. None of RO's scenes were actually filmed with IMAX's 1.43:1 aspect ratio so nothing will be lost at home (unlike TFA.)

When they transferred it to 15/70 film and projected it in IMAX theaters during the first few weeks of release it was actually letterboxed.

 

[Centurion]

Ah. None of RO's scenes were actually filmed with IMAX's 1.43:1 aspect ratio so nothing will be lost at home (unlike TFA.)

Ah ha! Thanks for clarifying.

 

[jye4ever]

Logan is actually getting a 2D Imax release, imagine that.

 

[Centurion]

Man, I'm getting tired of Wolverine movies.
They're going to keep milking it even until Hugh Jackman's got old hanging silver balls.

 

[pixletwin]

I'll be content with just the proper presentation of the film itself. Deleted scenes and commentaries are things I'd watch/listen to once and then most likely never revisit.

I used to watch that stuff. Then I got married and for some reason I just don't find them interesting anymore.

 

[ZaCHw117]

Ah. None of RO's scenes were actually filmed with IMAX's 1.43:1 aspect ratio so nothing will be lost at home (unlike TFA.)

thank god too, I'll take the retro look over IMAX any day of the week.

 

[jye4ever]

So, about that superior original ending that we all just knew HAD TO BE BETTER right.....

Well, there it is...

Thank the maker we didn't get this disaster!





Jyn Erso's fate wasn't always fatal in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.




Speaking with EW, Gary Whitta — who co-wrote Rogue One's story — discussed the original, happier ending for the Star Wars film. He explained that even though the plan always was to kill off the entire crew, they were worried Disney wouldn't approve of such a dark storyline.



So with that in mind, Whitta went about devising another narrative for Rogue One, in which Bodhi Rook, Chirrut Imwe, and Baze Malbus didn't exist. Meanwhile, Erso was a Rebel sergeant instead of an imprisoned criminal.




"In fact, some of the toys that are sold still say Sgt. Jyn Erso," said Whitta. “... By the time we changed that, some of the toys were already in production."
Erso would survive the Scariff assault in Rogue One's original ending, along with Cassian Andor (though he had a different name back then). And they would actually take the plans off of Scariff instead of beaming them up.



"A rebel ship came down and got them off the surface," Whitta said. "The transfer of the plans happened later. They jumped away and later [Leia’s] ship came in from Alderaan to help them. The ship-to-ship data transfer happened off Scarif."




Darth Vader would still appear, this time destroying Erso's ship. But she would use an escape pod, surviving with Cassian at the end.



In fact, the reveal would echo Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon's getaway from a Star Destroyer in The Empire Strikes Back. Similar to how they hid among garbage, Erso and Cassian would camoflouge themselves through the wreckage of the ship.




But to be clear, Whitta and the rest of the creative team — like director Gareth Edwards — were never sold on this version.




“The fact that we had to jump through so many hoops to keep them alive was the writing gods telling us that if they were meant to live it wouldn’t be this difficult,” said Whitta. “We decided they should die on the surface [of Scarif,] and that was the way it ended."

 

[DiFabio]

Doesn't sound any better or worse than what ended up happening.

When they died, I didn't care. If they got away and pulled a C-3PO/R2 with an escape pod I wouldn't have cared. They're literally nobodies. A shame long as Vader was still hacking up rebels for my amusement and freaky video game carrie fisher was still there, I would have felt the same way by the end of it all.

 

[jye4ever]

Nah, Deep Impact beach hug is much better.

 

[Khev]

Yeah, the art book mentioned that Jyn was originally envisioned by John Knoll as a Rebel Commando. Funny that it never clicked with me that the Sgt Jyn Erso Hasbro figure represented a rank she was never given on film.

 

[DiFabio]

Nah, Deep Impact beach hug is much better.

Meh, instead of asking "what were their names again?", I'd say "what are their names again?". Makes little difference.

 

[jye4ever]

Oh, father and daughter.

I don't own Deep Impact

Oh you mean Cassian and Jyn lol.

 

[DiFabio]

Oh you mean Cassian and Jyn lol.

Who??? Is that the blind one with the stick and the big bro with the heavy gun?

 

[jye4ever]

Khev is going to make you watch anime if you don't behave lol

 

[Khev]

 

[jye4ever]

Who??? Is that the blind one with the stick and the big bro with the heavy gun?

No they were the guardians of the Journal of the Bryan Singer pool party litigations.

 

[Khev]

When they died, I didn't care.