If you’re one of the few people who have yet to see “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” there are **spoilers ahead**, but one thing everybody should know by now is that the film went through a massive overhaul last summer into the movie you see today. Big script rewrites saw many scenes tossed out and reframed, and while the arc of the basic story is the same, nearly every section of the movie got reworked, right up to the ending.
Speaking with Yahoo, editor John Gilroy (brother of writer/director Tony Gilroy, who led the charge on redrafting ‘Rogue One’) reveals the climatic scene of Darth Vader cutting his way through rebel soldiers was a last-minute addition to the movie. “What was added — and it was a fantastic add — was the Vader action scene, with him boarding the ship and dispatching all those rebel soldiers,” he tells Yahoo Movies. “That was something conceptualized a little later.”
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“It was a really great punch in the arm and something I think fans wanted to see,” he added about the scene which nearly saw the iconic “Star Wars” villain foiling the plans of the Rebellion.
On the one hand, fans were probably pleased as punch to see Darth Vader throwing down and laying waste to everyone, but it does make one wonder how much Lucasfilm will ever be willing to risk not continually referencing the original saga movies. I’m actually left a bit curious about the original way director Gareth Edwards and the ‘Rogue One’ team approached that finale.
Thoughts? Let us know. If you still need to catch up with ‘Rogue One,’ it’s playing everywhere.