Star Wars stand-alone movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will undergo several weeks’ worth of additional shooting, sources have confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The move is happening after execs screened the film and felt it was tonally off with what a “classic” Star Wars movie should feel like.
Total facepalm.
Y'know, I'm not even all that invested in Star Wars as a franchise, but this still strikes me as just about the dumbest thing in the world.
The main problem with The Force Awakens was exactly that it did match a little too closely the "feel" of a classic Star Wars movie. And by "feel," I mean it ripped off A New Hope beat for beat.
Here we had Rogue One, a movie that looked like a genuinely fresh take on the franchise, doing something different with the material (which seemed like the whole point)... and execs are unhappy, because it's doing something different with the material.
Not a great sign.