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Oh well. Seems kind of early anyway. They probably haven't even decided on a name yet.

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^Sweet!

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That really IS a cool image.

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Disney is reportedly not happy with Rogue One and has ordered 4 weeks of reshoots. Now every movie undergoes reshoots but 4 weeks does seem like a lot, ex. from when the news about the Suicide Squad reshoots broke:



This also seems to back up that Bleeding Cool report about the tie-in comic being cancelled due to re-writes to the movie script.

The Han Solo movie will reportedly start shooting in January.

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Disney is reportedly not happy with Rogue One and has ordered 4 weeks of reshoots. Now every movie undergoes reshoots but 4 weeks does seem like a lot, ex. from when the news about the Suicide Squad reshoots broke:



This also seems to back up that Bleeding Cool report about the tie-in comic being cancelled due to re-writes to the movie script.

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Disney Orders Reshoots for 'Star Wars' Stand-Alone 'Rogue One' This Summer

Star Wars stand-alone movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will undergo several weeks’ worth of additional shooting, sources have confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

Much of the cast and director Gareth Edwards will regroup in mid-June for another round of shooting. The move is happening after execs screened the film and felt it was tonally off with what a “classic” Star Wars movie should feel like. The pic has not yet been tested before audiences, but one source describes the cut as having the feel of a war movie.

The goal of the reshoots will be to lighten the mood, bring some levity into the story and restore a sense of fun to the adventure.

Rogue One focuses on the fabled mission hinted at in Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, that of a group of rebels stealing the plans to the Death Star. The plans later end up in the hands of Princess Leia, who transfers them to R2-D2.

“This is the closest thing to a prequel ever,” a source tells THR. “This takes place just before A New Hope and leads up to the 10 minutes before that classic film begins. You have to match the tone!”

And while it’s not confirmed, some suggest that the new shooting could pave the way for an appearance from Han Solo as played by Alden Ehrenreich. The actor only recently nabbed the role of the spice smuggler and was not involved in Rogue One’s principal photography, which ran from last August to February.

Star Wars: Rogue One Reshoot Details Revealed

According to Making Star Wars (a definitive source for updates concerning the modern films), the Rogue One crew estimates that they are reshooting roughly 40 percent of the movie. They will be working six days a week for a period of eight weeks, and 32 sets have been built for this phase of the production. It was always expected there would be reshoots, it’s just that they now might be more substantial than originally thought.

The primary reasoning for this boils down to the most recent draft of the Rogue One screenplay, which came from Oscar winning scribe Christopher McQuarrie. Apparently, McQuarrie’s take on the script wasn’t finished during principal photography. Director Gareth Edwards had already filmed most of the movie, and whatever revisions came through led to the final product feeling uneven. Making Star Wars says that McQuarrie’s work is considered a marked improvement from what Edwards was working with originally. McQuarrie will be with Edwards during the reshoots to ensure that the two remain “on the same page” regarding this latest version of Rogue One.

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That just sounds like a bunch of college students making their first big indie project. "Lets start shooting now and worry about finishing the script later." That cross the bridge when we get there shit doesn't work with movies.

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That just sounds like a bunch of college students making their first big indie project. "Lets start shooting now and worry about finishing the script later." That cross the bridge when we get there shit doesn't work with movies.

On the other hand, no matter how silly that method seems, this movie will almost certainly still make a ton of money, so maybe they aren't sweating it too much.

(Though you'd imagine it would make even more if they weren't forced to spend all this money on extensive reshoots.)

It's funny, though, I got a real sense of "cross that bridge when we come to it" (or perhaps "making it up as we go" would be a better phrase) mentality when I was watching the extras for the Hobbit movies, too. Maybe there's some reason that's a real danger when you are making a movie that is pretty well guaranteed to make a bunch of money, based largely on good feeling about previous movies.

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Is this expected to delay the release date?

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. . . It's funny, though, I got a real sense of "cross that bridge when we come to it" (or perhaps "making it up as we go" would be a better phrase) mentality when I was watching the extras for the Hobbit movies, too. . .

Really? I didn't like them (and won't be watching the special features--especially since I don't own them), but Jackson basically used the same team as LotR and those were meticulously planned (with storyboarding and detailed shotlists). Heck, they even knew a big chunk of what would only make the DVD cuts. I mean I believe you, but that was a big change for massive movies. I suppose it could explain some things, though.

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Really? I didn't like them (and won't be watching the special features--especially since I don't own them), but Jackson basically used the same team as LotR and those were meticulously planned (with storyboarding and detailed shotlists). Heck, they even knew a big chunk of what would only make the DVD cuts. I mean I believe you, but that was a big change for massive movies. I suppose it could explain some things, though.

I think it may have been largely the result of choosing, seemingly midstream, to make it into three movies instead of two.

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won't be watching the special features

On this score, you really aren't missing as much as you would be if you skipped the special features on LotR (those are, to my mind, THE gold standard of DVD special features), so I'm not going to recommend you go out of your way to watch them, but they were still interesting, if not as well organized and planned as the LotR ones.

They were more comical, though. I mean, that's hard to avoid when you have a big section about how they planned and executed the scene where they were dumping a bunch of fish on top of the Dwarves in the barrels to hide them. Or the scene where they were all tied to a spit, turning over the fire. I've got to say, those poor guys went through a lot of crap filming that movie. It amazes me how upbeat they are about all of it, especially when you consider how small a role several of them REALLY had in the finished films, when you come down to it.