However, due to the Disney executives’ demands, immense re-shoots became a necessary part of the film’s troubled post-production process. With director Gareth Edwards attached to the project, French composer and Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat, with whom he had already collaborated on the 2014 film adaption of “Godzilla” was set to compose the music, being the second person ever to write an original score for a live action Star Wars movie next to the legendary John Williams. Starring Felicity Jones as the main protagonist alongside Diego Luna, Forest Whitaker, Ben Mendelsohn and Mads Mikkelsen amongst others, the story centers around Jyn Erso, daughter of Galen Erso, the designer of the Empire’s superweapon, who – together with a group of rebels opposed to the Galactic Empire – wants to end the Emperor’s reign of terror over the galaxy.
Telling the story of how the Rebel Alliance managed to retrieve the Death Star plans to destroy it, “Rogue One” can be seen as a direct prequel to the original 1977 Star Wars film.
Whatever.īased on an early idea by John Knoll, visual effects supervisor for the prequel trilogy, “Rogue One” marks the first stand-alone film in the Star Wars Anthology series which is chronologically set after the events of “Revenge of the Sith” and immediately ending before the events taking place in “A New Hope”. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, French composer Alexandre Desplat scored a Star Wars spin-off…wait, what? Do you know this is wrong? It is Michael Giacchino we are talking about, right? That guy who has already written music for J.J.Abrams’s “Star Trek” reboot, various Disney animation features and who was even chosen to step out of Williams’s gigantic shadow by providing the score for “Jurassic World”, the pun-guy? Never mind, here we go.īack in 2012, when the Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm, it immediately became clear that they did not only want to continue the regular series with a truckload of new episodes, but that the Disney executives also wanted to release a handful of Star Wars spin-offs focusing on only loosely-connected side stories to the original main saga in a serious attempt to make even more profit.
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