So the ground troops are riffing off Vietnam warfare visuals and films like Apocalypse Now, stuff I grew up loving. You have this ground battle, you have this really epic, really dynamic space battle, and in the middle of it all, you have this sort of soulful confrontation between Luke and Darth Vader. One of the best third acts in any film is, I think, Return of the Jedi. The inter-cutting in the third act, the triangle that's going on, was trying to do. How'd you go about building this final battle? Any influences? The ending is a very different kind of action scene, more like a WWII-era Hollywood movie, a stirring portrait of sacrifice and heroism and so on. When I last spoke to you, we had only seen the two big extended sequences, including the battle on Jedha, which reminded me of something out of Battle of the Algiers. Utopian peace doesn't make for interesting movies. Showing that it comes at a price, this sort of.when we fight each other like this, it's not a good thing. The world might be better, but it usually destroys you. You don't come out of it as a better person, typically. It's responsible storytelling because it's a massive war and war is not a great thing. I'm quite proud of it, because it feels responsible. There's like nine of them or something and I was just thinking "Oh my God, every one of those characters is going to die." I don't know another Disney film that does that.
I remember.I think it was Bob Iger, when they did the first announcement of the cast of the film on stage and behind them was every main actor who was in the movie. We'd love to, but can we do that?" And she said "We can do anything we want."Īnd so I spent the next couple of years waiting for someone to say "Actually, you know, they should survive." And no one ever said it. And then Kathleen Kennedy read it and at the end she said "Shouldn't they all die?" And we said "Yeah, of course.
So for this first draft, let's try to do the best version we think of with Jyn and Cassian surviving." That what was written. We just felt "There's no way they're going to let us do this. The first ever screenplay by Gary Whitta.we were chatting about this and it was clear we were going to kill a lot of people. When in the process did you decide to kill everybody? Because you kill everybody in the ending.
#ROGUE ONE PEPAKURA MOVIE#
Since everyone's seen the movie now, let's just talk about the ending. You may have already read our conversation about why the ending of the film was changed, but we also spoke about the Rogue One ending and that final battle's giant body count.and how he thought he'd never get away with it. With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hitting home video in just a few weeks and director Gareth Edwards in attendance at SXSW for a different engagement, we were able to meet up for a spoiler-filled chat about the film's third act.