Re: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16)
They should just leave this film be it's own thing. There is no way it can tonally match or join to ANH. It wasn't conceived like that and certainly Edwards is not the director to match that style.
So they are lightening and adding fun? Probably Disney speak for making it less dull (Like Godzilla and Monsters). Godzilla cut had the "feel of a war movie too" a really ****ing boring one.
Anyway I thought it already had comedy and levity? Why else does Forest Whitaker look and act like that?
" HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:
Executives felt it was tonally off with what a “classic” 'Star Wars' movie should feel like.
Star Wars stand-alone movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will undergo several weeks’ worth of additional shooting, sources have confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
Much of the cast and director Gareth Edwards will regroup in mid-June for another round of shooting. The move is happening after execs screened the film and felt it was tonally off with what a “classic” Star Wars movie should feel like. The pic has not yet been tested before audiences, but one source describes the cut as having the feel of a war movie.
The goal of the reshoots will be to lighten the mood, bring some levity into the story and restore a sense of fun to the adventure.
Rogue One focuses on the fabled mission hinted at in Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, that of a group of rebels stealing the plans to the Death Star. The plans later end up in the hands of Princess Leia, who transfers them to R2-D2.
“This is the closest thing to a prequel ever,” a source tells THR. “This takes place just before A New Hope and leads up to the 10 minutes before that classic film begins. You have to match the tone!”
Not confirmed, but he HAS been there all along. In fact, they've gone to efforts to make the suit look like the one from ANH (thank God).
Yeah, they have exactly recreated the ANH helmet, widows peak, inaccuracies and asymmetry et al. Superb!
