Gareth Edwards Reveals Why Star Wars: Rogue One Entailed Reshoots
Celebrated film-maker Gareth Edwards reveals why he needed to reshoot Star Wars: Rogue One.
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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.