Lots of detail in The Hollywood Reporter’s follow-up to Monday’s New York Post story about the reshoots for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”:
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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,” according to the periodical.
* The reshoots were ordered “after execs screened the film and felt
it was tonally off with what a ‘classic’ Star Wars movie should feel like,” writes THR’s Borys Kit. “The pic has not yet been tested before audiences, but
one source describes the cut as having the feel of a war movie.”
* The same story says reshoots will reunite key players not in July (as reported by the Post) but in “mid-June.” Today is June 2. So not a lot of time to gin up high-quality levity. Are we talking “It was a stupid conversation anyway”? Or a Gungun getting his tongue caught in a turbine?
* “Rogue One” - or at least the ending of “Rogue One” – is set “10 minutes” before the events of 1977’s “Star Wars,” according to the Reporter source.
* Also according to the trade paper, “some suggest” 26-year-old Alden Ehrenreich, recently cast as Young Han Solo in an upcoming Kasdan-scripted Star Wars prequel. Ehrenreich was not cast as Solo until “Rogue” principal photography ended in February.