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”:
* “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.
I confess the idea of Ehrenreich stepping in here for Harrison Ford, who was 34 when he first played Solo, sounds like horseshit to me. Ehrenreich simply doesn’t look enough like Ford to play the Solo we met in 1977.
"Rogue One" was directed by Gareth Edwards (2014’s “Godzilla”) from a screenplay by Chris Weitz (“About A Boy,” “The Golden Compass,” “Cinderella”). It stars the scrumptulescent Felicity Jones ("The Theory of Everything"), Mads Mikkelsen ("Hannibal"), Alan Tudyk ("Serenity"), Donnie Yen ("Ip Man"), Ben Mendelsohn ("The Dark Knight Rises"), Forest Whitaker ("The Butler"), Diego Luna ("Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Casa di Mi Padre"), Jonathan Aris "The Martian") and maybe the voice of James Earl Jones.
Find all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.
