Report: Tony Gilroy is Supervising ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Editing
There has been a lot of talk about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story over the past few months, and a lot of it has centered on the extensive multi-week reshoots that took place a little while back. The studio reportedly wasn't happy with what they were seeing, they wanted it to feel more like a classic Star Wars film, and while one report stated around 40% of the movie was reshot during that period, Kathleen Kennedy assured fans that the reshoots were planned from the start and were scheduled for them to make the movie they always wanted to make.
THR reports that Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy, Michael Clayton), who is an uncredited writer for Rogue One, was "the driving force" behind the reshoots, and now he's been "empowered to take the lead on postproduction" even though director Gareth Edwards is supposedly still involved. Gilroy is reportedly "supervising" the edit with input from Edwards, though one of their sources paint the picture as being more collaborative instead of a doom and gloom scenario:
"There are not two separate editing rooms; they are all in there with their ideas," says one source close to the production. "Tony's a strong force, but they're all working together."
Gilroy helped Edwards out during the making of 2014's Godzilla, so the two have a history. The reshoots apparently "tackled several issues" with the movie, including its ending, which, as most of you know, is said to lead into the events of A New Hope.
I want to believe that this isn't a big deal, because I've liked everything I've seen from Rogue One so far. And that could very well be the case: many of the Star Wars movies have had some behind-the-scenes woes, most recently including J.J. Abrams reshooting chunks of The Force Awakens to improve the friendship between Daisy Ridley and John Boyega and to give Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron some of his best lines. We might not notice anything awry when the movie comes out on December 16th, but if the film turns out to be a total disaster, I suppose this was a warning sign.