Rogue One debuted to strong reviews (85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and earned more than $1 billion at the global box office, but Gilroy doesn’t have plans to return to a galaxy far, far away. “And they were in such a swamp … they were in so much terrible, terrible trouble that all you could do was improve their position.” “I’ve never been interested in Star Wars, ever. Unlike lifelong fans like Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s Rian Johnson, Gilroy was not a fan of the franchise before boarding and therefore had no trepidation about potentially messing it up. I have a screenplay credit in the arbitration that was easily won,” said Gilroy. (Star Ben Mendelsohn has said “an enormously different” version of the film exists.) He saw the opportunity to explore why the film’s characters - played by stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna and Donnie Yen - would ultimately sacrifice themselves at the end of the film in order to allow the Rebels to gain the plans to the Death Star.Ĭhoosing his words carefully, Gilroy signaled how much of the project was changed after he boarded. Everyone is going to die.’ So it’s a movie about sacrifice.”

It is a direct prequel to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The film, which was first announced on May 22, 2014, was released on December 16, 2016. “Because you sort of go, ‘This is a movie where, folks, just look. A rebellion built on hope.Tagline Rogue One (known on all promotional material as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is a film in the Star Wars Anthology Series directed by Gareth Edwards with a screenplay by Chris Weitz. “If you look at Rogue, all the difficulty with Rogue, all the confusion of it … and all the mess, and in the end when you get in there, it’s actually very, very simple to solve,” Gilroy said of the film.

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