Star Wars: Rogue One's Production Was A Huge Warning Sign
The best Star Wars movie to come along since Disney bought Lucasfilm for a pretty penny is arguably Rogue One, but that’s sadly more of a reflection of how disappointing all the others were than a compliment to the movie itself. It has a great setup – a heist story about the Rebel spies who stole the Death Star plans – but it suffers from underdeveloped characters with wasted potential, clunky exposition, structural problems in the second act, and most egregiously, having none of the coolest shots from the trailer in the actual movie.
Instead of letting director Gareth Edwards make the movie he envisioned, studio executives interfered with the production. They brought in Tony Gilroy to rewrite the script and heavily reshot Edwards’ movie. Originally, Jyn and Cassian had to run across a chaotic battlefield to get the plans to the Rebels; in the final cut, they just do a file transfer. Rogue One is a fine movie that’s worth the audience’s while, but the origin story of the Death Star could have – and should have – been so much more. Sadly, Rogue One’s $1 billion box office haul convinced executives they’d saved the movie, so it set a precedent for Disney and Lucasfilm to step in and make radical changes to everyone’s Star Wars movies. After Edwards was denied creative control, the producers’ treatment of Star Wars directors just got worse and worse.
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The original directors of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, were fired in the middle of production – after they’d already shot a lot of the movie – and replaced by Ron Howard, who managed to piece together a passable cut of the agreeable blockbuster that doesn’t take any risks that
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