Gareth Edwards Reveals Why Star Wars: Rogue One Entailed Reshoots

Film-maker Gareth Edwards reveals that he felt it absolutely necessary to reshoot Star Wars: Rogue One in order to change the tone and style of the story.

"What happened was that I'd say a third of the movie or more has this embedded documentary style to it, and as a result we shot hours and hours and days and days of material. Normally when you put a film together it goes together like A-B-C-D-E and you move on." Said Edwards.

He continued, "Whereas we had so many permutations, so many different ways it could be constructed, it took longer in the edit to find the exact version."

"We'd always planned to do a pickup shoot but we needed a lot of time to figure out all this material and get the best out of it. So that pushed the entire schedule in a big way. Then Disney saw the film and reacted really well and they said, 'Whatever you need, we're going to support you.'" He added.

The director also added that he wanted to make this Star Wars movie visually more appealing to the audiences.

"Our visual-effects shot count went from 600 to nearly 1,700, so suddenly we could do absolutely anything we wanted. To design 1,000 visual effects shots should take a year, so it was all hands to the pump and we never came up for air really until about a week ago." Edwards stated further.