Have you heard about the Rogue One reshoots? Rumor is Disney thinks it may be too dark in tone for a Star Wars movie, but I've also seen others decry the rumor for being untrue as well. If it is darker in tone that would greatly interest me.
I don’t go out of my way to find stuff for Rogue One so no I hadn’t heard. But with a bit of research - and a link provided by the admin of a Dreamwidth group I follow - it appears that the rumors of reshoots are indeed true.
That in itself is not really surprising. Today time for doing reshoots are scheduled into the post-production schedule so there’s time to tweak things. But yeah, it appears that at a screening the Disney execs wanted a “light and more bantering tone” for Rogue One, since it’s ending will be 10 minutes before A new Hope begins (boy is that going to be interesting to watch and see if they can carry off) and ANH have a very light and bantering tone, despite its darker features. (No really, they blow up a god damn planet. Leia gets tortured. Don’t tell me ANH isn’t dark.)
Plus, the levity and banter was one of the things that made TFA so popular. The execs seems to want to recapture that.
So the “darker in tone” appears true. Of course that could mean any number of things: From killing off all the lead characters to just having a very grimdark tone throughout.
Whatever it is though, it appears to be massive enough that they went and cancelled the comic. To me that indicates that the changes will be raadical enough that the comic would become a different story entirely than what we’re going to be watching on screen. So color me interested.















