Actor Alan Tudyk on Filming a Star Wars Films That's Really a War Film
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is something entirely new to the Star Wars franchise, and not just because it's the first spinoff. It's also the first true war film (despite past films having war in them, it's hard to class them as such).
Actor Alan Tudyk, who worked as performance capture for the droid K-2SO. He voiced surprise at just how much this Star Wars film veered into war territory, with more action in trenches than taking on massive, sci-fi beasts and the like.
"A lot of [director Gareth Edwards' Camera-work] was in the action, that's when he'd really take the reins, in the action sequences and things. He says, 'In the trenches' literally, he means literally, he was in the trenches, in our many trenches we were in over the course of the movie. The type of direction he would give was a lot of like, 'Look over there, you see this right now.'"
"They're like, 'Here, there's your line. Run from here to there. Don't vary, don't go off your line, because you're really going to want to,' so you're running down the beach. We just want running through sand with other troops. A spaceship, a ship, they got it on the crane, comes down, a gunner is there, he's an alien. The guy on the gun is an alien gunner, the ship touches down just barely they've got those, doing smoke as it comes down. Troops come out either side, pile out, it takes back off and goes over our head. Now that's happening as we're running over."
He said that, when the cast sat down to watch the film, he was blown away by the final product. "[When filming], Gareth's there saying, 'Look, there's an AT-AT. Look over your shoulder, there's an AT-AT. Now run this way, there's an AT-AT shooting at you,'" he said. When filming, he gave a sarcastic "oh noooo." "And then to watch the movie and see a f***ing AT-AT there, it's so thrilling."
Source: Comicbook
