During an interview with Little White Lies, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards has revealed that Lucasfilm has a completed a shiny new 4K restoration of George Lucas’ first foray to the galaxy far, far away, Star Wars: Epsiode IV – A New Hope. “On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story passes $350 million worldwide in its first week
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is not slowing down at all even during the week. The Gareth Edwards-helmed film earned $17.6 million in North America and $16 million globally for a combined $33 million yesterday. This brings its worldwide total to $357 million thus far. This is very impressive for a Star Wars film that is not […]
Movie Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2016. Directed by Gareth Edwards. Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Jimmy Smits, Mads Mikkelsen, and James Earl Jones. SYNOPSIS: The Rebel Alliance makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga […]
Gareth Edwards discusses the original ending to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Warning. Major spoilers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story follow. You have been warned… Those of us who’ve ventured to the cinema to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will likely have noticed that much of the footage seen in the trailers was absent from the final movie. We already know that the […]
Movie Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2016. Directed by Gareth Edwards. Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Jimmy Smits, Mads Mikkelsen, and James Earl Jones. SYNOPSIS: The Rebellion makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to […]
Gareth Edwards on incorporating unused footage from A New Hope into Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Warning: Spoilers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story follow. You have been warned… We already knew that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story would be bringing back several characters from the Original Trilogy – namely Darth Vader and Mon Mothma – but, as rumoured, the film also featured a number of “surprise” characters, such as Grand Moff […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards talks reshoots
This past summer Lucasfilm announced that it was embarking on major reshoots for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, sending some fans into a panic as rumours circulated that up to 40% of the movie could be reworked, and that director Gareth Edwards was being pushed aside in favour of Tony Gilroy, who was brought […]
Gareth Edwards would like to see an Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars spinoff movie
It looks like we can add Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards to the list of fans who’d like to see Ewan McGregor reprising the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for a Star Wars Anthology movie, with the filmmaker sharing his excitement over the prospect during an interview with The Playlist. “I would […]
George Lucas has seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and “really liked the movie”
We’re less than a fortnight away from the next instalment of the Star Wars saga, and it seems that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story already has its first positive review – from Star Wars creator George Lucas, no less! Speaking during a Lucasfilm press conference for the movie, director Gareth Edwards revealed that Lucas […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story won’t have a sequel
Despite the high likelihood of Disney and Lucasfilm’s first Star Wars Anthology film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, becoming a huge hit when it flies into theaters next month, no matter what kind of box office numbers it produces, the film certainly won’t be getting a sequel. That’s right, according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, […]
