“If you imagine the beginning of the second act and the end of the second act kind of swapping places, that would not be an inaccurate way to portray how it structurally was changed,” he explained. Between the end of director Gareth Edwards’ shoot and the eventual release of the movie - which was taken over by Tony Gilroy during editing and substantially changed, according to multiple sources, including Gilroy himself - the movie underwent some drastic rebuilding, Weitz said. That’s not to say that Weitz was responsible for the version of the movie that fans saw on screen in 2016, however. “I think it was on the presumption that Disney wouldn’t allow characters to die with such abandon.” The reason Weitz felt the need to end on a more downbeat note was a practical one: “I felt it was necessary because nobody ever mentions them or sees them again but also because we’ve done this whole sort of theme about sacrifice that it was appropriate that all of our main characters die.” As a matter of fact, it ended with a wedding,” Weitz said. “The version prior to didn’t have everyone die. For one thing, there was a version with a happy ending.Ĭhris Weitz, who inherited the screenplay from writer Gary Whitta, revealed during an interview for the CultPopture podcast that when he became involved with the feature, the fan-favorite ending that saw every protagonist sacrifice himself for the mission didn’t exist yet. Three years after its release (following a troubled postproduction) even more details of what was changed in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story have emerged, via an interview with one of the movie’s writers.
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