Director Gareth Edwards Puts to Rest Concerns Over 'Rogue One' Reshoots
Gareth Edwards, director of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, spoke with EW regarding the heavily reported reshoots undertaken for the upcoming anthology film, and he took great strides in reassuring any fans who are still concerned.
"It was always part of the plan to do reshoots. We always knew we were coming back somewhere to do stuff, we just didn't know what it would be until we started sculpting the film in the edit."
Many films have reshoots scheduled in for touch-ups and new takes on certain scenes, so it's not unheard of and is certainly more common than some reports led us to believe.
"There's lots of little things that we have to get," he explained, "but it's all little things within the preexisting footage," hopefully putting to rest any ideas that the film is in dire need of drastic changes. With a large ensemble cast including several in-demand actors, the schedule for the reshoots had to be far-reaching in order to fill every need.
"Obviously, you've got to work around everyone's schedule, and everyone's on different films all over the world, and so it's a bit of a logistical nightmare. That's why I think it's been blown out of proportion a bit," Edwards said, doing his own, fairly earned share of speculating.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy also reiterated that there needn't be widespread concern in any way. "There's nothing about the story that's changing, with a few things that we're picking up in additional photography. I think that's the most important thing, to reassure fans that it's the movie we intended to make."
Source: Comicbook
