Tag: Rogue One
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‘Rogue One’ Director Says ‘There Is So Much Inaccuracy’ Surrounding Making of ‘Star Wars’ Prequel: ‘We All Worked Together Until the Entire Last Minute’
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” director Gareth Edwards is once again addressing the multiple reports about the 2016 film requiring extensive reshoots overseen by Tony Gilroy (the eventual “Andor” creator was hired by Lucasfilm to join the “Rogue One” team in June 2016).On a recent episode of Kcrw’s “The Business” podcast, Edwards claimed “there…
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‘The Creator’s Gareth Edwards Makes Post-Apocalyptic Worlds Feel Like Home
Many directors who spend lots of time in the modern franchise movie machine end up sacrificing any sense of their own distinct creative sensibilities in the process. To work on one of these massive tentpole projects is to often give away opportunities to really speak to your own worldview and thoughts. While nobody will claim…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Put Gareth Edwards Off Directing Big-Budget Sci-Fi
Among the many unfortunate side effects of our current era of blockbuster-obsessive Hollywood filmmaking is the trend of studios grabbing indie directors who have only ever worked with tiny budgets and giving them huge franchise movies with nine-figure price tags. These inexperienced directors are suddenly thrown into a world of executives, giant studios, fan expectations,…
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The Creator’s Visual Design Was Inspired By A Cool Alternate History Concept
As a genre, sci-fi inherently lends itself to reinterpretations and predictions and cautionary tales about our own trajectory as a species. Every time humanity comes to a certain set of pivotal crossroads, the choices we make can go on to define the next several decades of our history. It’s a simultaneously comforting and terrifying thought,…
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‘The Promised Land’ Trailer: Mads Mikkelsen Reunites With Director Nikolaj Arcel For A New Venice-Bound Drama
Before Bond and “Casino Royale,” before many of his now iconic performances and appearances in franchises like “Rogue One,” ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny,” Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen first came to fame with Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Pusher” trilogy. But one of the acclaimed films that kept pushing up the mountain of…
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Gareth Edwards on What He Learned From ‘The Creator’ Test Screenings
Gareth Edwards’ eagerly awaited new film The Creator opens in theaters in just over two months, and the first looks we’ve had at the film promise a visually stunning experience, consistent with the director’s big-budget work on films like Godzilla and Rogue One, as well as a tantalizing take on the prospect of artificial intelligence…
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‘The Creator’ Images: Go Inside Gareth Edwards’ AI War
Gareth Edwards, the director behind Star Wars prequel Rogue One, as well as Legendary Pictures 2014 Godzilla reboot, returns with his latest effort, The Creator, the story of a post-apocalyptic future where humankind is at war with the forces of artifical intelligence. Based upon a screenplay co-written by he and Chris Weitz, the director is…
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‘Andor’: Tony Gilroy Teases More ‘Rogue One’ Character Cameos In Season 2
While “Star Wars” fans await the premieres of “Ahsoka,” “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” and “The Acolyate,” another anticipated series looms on the release horizon: “Andor” Season 2. And excitement for Tony Gilroy‘s show is well deserved. It’s easily the best live-action “Star Wars” series of the Disney+ era, even if “The Mandalorian” is arguably more…
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Tony Gilroy & Diego Luna Talk Andor Season 1 Finale and Luthen’s Shuttle
[This article contains spoilers for Andor‘s Season 1 finale]Across the 12-episode first season of Tony Gilroy’s Andor, audiences have been treated to a front-row seat in watching the sparks of the rebellion finally light a flame within Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). In the finale, after enduring incarceration on Narkina 5, his mother’s (Fiona Shaw) death,…