Gareth Edwards denies rumors of chaotic Rogue One filming

“Tony Gilroy came in and he did a good job, that’s for sure.” But the director assures that he shot his ending scene himself: “We all worked together until the end.”

Do not try to make people say Gareth Edwards that the filming of Rogue One – A Star Wars Story was horrible. It’s a waste of time, the director won’t admit anything.

In June 2016, less than six months before its cinema release, the blockbuster serving as a prequel to George Lucas’ original trilogy was in full swing. reshoots. To add additional scenes, which is quite commonplace on these kinds of big productions. Except that here, the screenwriter and director Tony Gilroy, known in particular for his work on the saga Jason Bourne, had been called in for reinforcement. To support the young director of Monsters ? To replace it altogether?

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It was rumored then that Lucasfilm would have been so disappointed with the rushes of Rogue One that the production would have put its creator aside to hire someone more experienced. The rumors then started again when Chris Lord and Phil Miller were fired from Solo, then replaced by Ron Howard. Following this decision by Kathleen Kennedy, some fans were certain that the same thing had happened to Gareth Edwards on his own blockbuster. The fact that he took so long to shoot a new feature film also buried this story, without him ever confirming anything.

The rumor had gone so far in 2016 that Christopher McQuarrie, the director of the latest Impossible missionwhose name was also known as “relief director”stepped up to defend Edwards: “If there are reshoots of Rogue One, I do not supervise them. For a publication to say otherwise is not only false, it is irresponsible. Gareth Edwards is a talented filmmaker who deserves the benefit of the doubt. Make a film – especially a chapter of Star Wars – is hard enough without the internet deliberately trying to devalue years of hard work. And who does it ultimately serve? Let him make his film in peace.”.

Eight years later, Gareth returns with a sci-fi film full of references, but original, The Creator. An 80 million dollar feature film, which looks like Rogue One in many aspects. So this is the opportunity to silence once and for all the rumors of a chaotic shoot. Yes, the ending scene with Darth Vader in the hallway was filmed during reshoots (Peter Jackson was also present that day and had already confirmed the information), and yes, Tony Gilroy did participate in the design of this sequence. But no, he didn’t oust Gareth Edwards from the set.

“There are so many inaccurate things circulating around this film, he regrets during the podcast The Business, by KCRW. We read a lot of stuff on the internet about what happened, but it’s mostly false. Tony (Gilroy) came, and he did a good job, that’s for sure. No doubt about it. But we all worked together until the last minute of making this film. The last thing we filmed was good the hallway scene with Darth Vader. But I did all that.”

A few days ago it was Variety who questioned Gareth Edwards about these reshoots, and the fact that he lost control of his film. “Look, all I can say is that I’ve been incredibly lucky, he replied. I was able to make a film Star Wars. It’s like I won the lottery, in a way. The idea that someone as privileged as me could criticize this incredible experience… I would have no empathy for that person. I don’t want to be that person.”

Here is the trailer for The Creatorcurrently watching at the cinema:

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