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The final installment in EW’s ‘Rogue One Revelations’ series
Which paths through the galaxywerenttaken?
(Its out on Blu-ray April 4.)
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Maybe its better not to know.
Thats going to have to remain a mystery, says director Gareth Edwards.
And theres a very good reason for that.
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There was no next.
It was something the marketing team fell in love with, Edwards says.
We knew it would not be in the film.
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Its one of those things where all the trailers are put together way before the film comes out.
It wasnt a specific part of the story.
But it turns out no one wanted to spend millions to explore the galactic version of the boonies.
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It used to be that the first half of the movie was not on Yavin it was Dantooine.
Princess Leia tells them to blow up Dantooine.
The idea was that she knew that they werent there, Edwards says.
We wanted to put that moment in the film, where they evacuated and went to Yavin instead.
All these little things would tie up when you watchA New Hope, Edwards said.
But the idea of building two sets was very expensive.
We ended up trimming things like that.
So what did we miss?
Dantooine is described inStar Warscanon as a vast farmland world with a small population.
A little Rebel stronghold on the prairie.
We dont have to be winking at the audience all the time.
Walrus Man) and Dr. Evazan in the streets ofRogue Ones Jedha city.
I thought having Evazan and Walrus Man was a little too much, Whitta says.
The number one mandate we got from Lucas was to show things we have not seen before.
Dont show us the stuff weve seen already.
Show us some new stuff, Whitta says.
I always loved Admiral Ackbar.
I wanted to have him in there, but J.J. Abrams got to him first, Whitta says.
We didnt want to use him again afterThe Force Awakens.
So Ackbar became Admiral Raddus.
You will see those little evolutions.
Where there any other major cameos considered for the movie?
Yeah, but Im not going to tell you, Whitta says.
You will write it up and it will become a big deal.
Its not a big deal.
They were just little things that we put in there.
The problem is that inA New Hope, they contradict themselves.
Did they steal data tapes or was it transmissions?
They were forced to go to the transmission tower and send them to the Rebels.
It was too long.
We tried to compress things.
The film as a whole always wins.
We needed to keep the duration down to two hours.
You dont want people to have that feeling in aStar Warsfilm.
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