Going Rogue II: The Script

In 2013, Gareth Edwards pretended he was going to get lunch, and
instead went to a meeting with Kiri Hart at Lucasfilm. He was one
of a handful of promising young directors who'd been handpicked
to direct a new Star Wars film, off the strength of his
low-budget debut Monsters. Edwards was offered Destroyer of
Worlds, originally pitched by VFX legend and Edwards's personal
hero, John Knoll. 





Gary Whitta went into his meeting at Lucasfilm surprised to be
considered for a film project at all, but his ideas hit the right
note, naming basically every major influence Knoll had listed in
his pitch. Whitta would write the first draft and come up with
the film's title, Rogue One, before being replaced by Chris
Weitz, Oscar nominated writer and noted Boba Fett hater.





In the middle of all of this was Colin Goudie, an editor hired
twelve months before Rogue One even started shooting, tasked with
making the film out of other films.





Welcome to the messy, contradictory world of Rogue One's script.








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CLIP SOURCES:


 - The Sci Fi Talks Podcast


 - The Rule of Two


 - The Filumentarians


 - The Director's Cut


 - IGN's  WFH Rogue One Livestream








MUSIC:


"Bleeping Demo", "Hiding Your Reality", "Concentration",
"Dreamcatcher", "Industrial Cinematic", "Stormfront", "Rynos
Theme", "Ever Mindful", "Envision", "Anguish", "Twisting", "Lost
Frontier", "Prelude & Action", "Stay the Course" & "Magic
Scout"


Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


"Suspended Animation", "Void Glider" & "Quiescent in
Time" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com