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Gareth Edwards: Rogue One Re-Shoots 'Always The Plan'

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‘Rogue One’ director Gareth Edwards has said that re-shoots on the movie were always in the game plan for the 'Star Wars’ prequel.

It emerged last month that the movie was set to go into a period of expensive re-shoots, causing concern among fans that the results of the initial shoot might not have been good enough.

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But now Edwards has sought to allay fears.

“I mean it was always part of the plan to do reshoots,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

“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.”

As for what specifically is being re-shot, he added: “There’s lots of little things that we have to get, but it’s all little things within the preexisting footage.

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“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 little bit.

“It’s funny, making a film stops you believing anything you’ve ever read on the Internet.”

Asked to describe the feel of the movie, which will tell the story of the spies who stole the plans for the Death Star, he said: “I’d definitely describe it as: It’s got dark tone.

“The studio has been very supportive of that. I mean, the sort of tone we were going for when we started was the tone you have in films like 'The Empire Strikes Back’. And that’s not in any way been compromised.”

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Meanwhile, producer Kathleen Kennedy has described it as being more akin to a 'war film’.

“Gareth has shown a stylistic preference that’s much more handheld, visceral, inside-the-action kind of feel,” she said.

“He does a lot of handheld, intimate, close-up work. That’s not something you’ve necessarily seen in a Star Wars movie before.

“And we brought in [cinematographer] Greig Fraser, to shoot it, who had done 'Zero Dark Thirty’. So a combination of Greig and Gareth has been, I think, fantastic, and it just gives it a really unique style.”

The movie stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker and Mads Mikkelsen, alongside James Earl Jones, who will once again voice Darth Vader.

It’s due out on December 16.

Image credits: Disney/EW