ROGUE ONE’s Saw Gerrera Character Was Originally in the Live-Action STAR WARS Series
Some interesting new details have emerged regarding Forest Whitaker's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story character, Saw Gerrera. We know the character was first introduced in the Star Wars universe in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but before that he was supposed to be in the live-action Star Wars TV drama being developed by George Lucas.
Star Wars Story Group's Pablo Hidalgo talked about the character on this week's episode of The Star Wars Show explaining:
"A lot of people know him from The Clone Wars, but he actually started off before that. George Lucas had him in mind for his live action [Star Wars] TV series that he had in development. That never happened, but he found a place to put Saw into a story in Clone Wars."
Every time I hear about that abandoned Star Wars: Underworld series, my heart sinks because everything that I've heard about it has sounded pretty amazing. Hidalgo offered some more in-depth information on the character:
"He's sort of an extreme Rebel. He's definitely against the Empire, but he does things that morally push against the kind of things that Bail Organa and Mon Mothma stand for. Story Group brought Saw to the conversation. They took that character, ran with it, and as they were developing the script, there was only one person they wanted to play this character, and that was Forest Whitaker, and we're very fortunate to have him in this movie."
Hidalgo moved the conversation to Twitter where he continued to educate fans on Saw Gerrera's history, explaining:
"To reiterate, he was an idea developed for the proposed live action TV show, but was introduced in The Clone Wars. George Lucas, working in his inimitable non-linear way realized him as extremist first, and then revealed his backstory in The Clone Wars.”
Apparently, there were a lot of ideas from the live-action Star Wars series that ended up being used in Clone Wars, and not just in the later seasons. They were pulling stuff from the live-action development as far back as season two of The Clone Wars! He went on to give this other bit of info to think about:
"Think of Saw as the uncle [that] mom and dad don't talk about. Something bad went down. He's 'disowned' to some degree. Saw was militarized by the Republic to fight a proxy war against their worst enemy. A generation later, he becomes their worst enemy."
Saw Gerrera sounds like such an incredibly interesting character, and I can’t wait to learn more about him in Rogue One! To read up on the previous information that we had on the character, click here. The fact they are using this character opens the door to pulling other characters from the animated Star Wars series that we’ve all come to love and enjoy in any future Star Wars films.