|
SPOILERS: Gareth Edwards Reveals ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY's Original Ending |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, 20 December 2016 07:34 |
|
You only need to watch the trailers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to know that reports of 40% of the movie being reshot were accurate, but it turns out that an earlier draft of the screenplay had a very different ending. That featured the Rebels managing to survive their trip to Scarif, something shots of Jyn, Cassian, and a fully intact K-2SO running across the beaches with the Death Star plans in tow may confirm was also the case before Disney and Lucasfilm ordered those extensive reshoots to take place.
During a now removed chat with Empire Online (via io9), here's what director Gareth Edwards had to say about a version of Rogue One where the Rebels managed to survive their suicide mission to Scarif.
The very first version, they didn’t. In the screenplay. And it was just assumed by us that we couldn’t do that. ‘They’re not going to let us do that.’ So I was trying to figure out how Read more: |