Rumours that the director was replaced by Tony Gilroy are rife online.
Despite the film-maker finally starting to push back on the hearsay, it seems we may never know what happenedFor fans of the halcyon days of Star Wars – that glorious blend of analogue retro-future-tech, cod-Japanese mysticism and swishy laser swords – 2016’s Rogue One: a Star Wars Story is perhaps the last great movie set a long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away.
At the very least, it is the last Star Wars movie that has not proven fiercely divisive, alienated large portions of its fanbase (even if quite a few of them seem to be right-wing trolls) or ruined entire trilogies.It inspired the prequel TV series Andor, an unusual example of a Star Wars show that has flourished despite having almost no connection to George Lucas’s original trilogy, and felt like that rare example…
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