Well now that the movie was a resounding success Gareth must be happy that Disney sided with him and he's the one getting all the credit:
Blu-ray review:
"With eleven featurettes running the gamut from the film's original conception to its premiere, surely the elephant in the room would be addressed, if not directly but at least between the lines? Perhaps we'd see behind the scenes footage of scenes that didn't make the cut?
Alas, those looking for "dirt" will be disappointed. As far as the bonus features are concerned, this was the smoothest sailing production of all time, because despite the film's massive success (and obviously pleased audiences), there isn't as much as a single mention of reshoots*.
Also absent is Tony Gilroy, who is the credited co-writer and was the director of the reshoots, taking over for (sole credited) director Gareth Edwards. There is only a single mention of Gilroy to be found in its 70 plus minutes of bonus material, and needless to say he doesn't even get to offer his two cents in interviews as the entire cast, Edwards, co-writer Chris Weitz, story creators John Knoll and Gary Whitta, producer Kathleen Kennedy, etc, etc.
Even if you weren't aware of any of the film's restructuring, you might notice Gilroy seems to be the only primarily credited member of the film that doesn't appear. Granted, there's no law saying that a studio has to give us the whole story on a Blu-ray, but when the film's production woes were so high profile, it almost feels shady that Gilroy doesn't get to offer promotional sound bites like his colleagues."
