'Rogue One' Director Confirms that the Film Does Not Play Out as We Expect
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is creeping up on us, slowly but surely, and the story of the rebels who attempt to steal the plans for the Death Star ahead of the events in A New Hope is set to take us all back to an era long forgotten within the saga.
Despite the fairly linear premise, director Gareth Edwards has guaranteed that "the film doesn't unfold how you think."
Speaking in USA Today's winter movie preview, Edwards says that “Events take place that just shatter her life and send her off to basically be raised as a soldier in the midst of a war. She ends up not the person she was supposed to be.” He's speaking of course about Jyn Erso, who, much like other Star Wars protagonists in the past, has her own kind of Daddy issues.
“Even though we’re not telling the story of Luke Skywalker, it was important to me that we capture the same themes and emotion. But the film doesn’t unfold how you think. It’s not the same path as Star Wars.”
Edwards also took a moment to comment on the ending. “The thing every [filmmaker] typically struggles with is ‘How does it end?’ But we knew how our film was going to end. Our problem became ‘How do we reverse engineer from that and know where to start?’ You’ve got a finite number of options and you go through them all like a puzzle to find the one that’s going to lead to the strongest result.”
The film opens on December 16, 2016.
Source: Slashfilm
