Damage fixed, Garet Edwards reshoots Rogue One

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Garet Edwards, director of Star Wars and Monsters, has made reshooting on "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" before it will be released to the big screen today. Rumors are circulating that the new Star Wars film must need a handful of reshoots to fix the damage.

Per Cinema Blend, Director Garet Edwards explains, "What happened was that I'd say a third of the movie or more has this embedded documentary style to it, and thus, we shot hours and hours and days and days of material. Normally when you put a film together like A-B-C-D-E and move on. Whereas we had so many permutations, so many different ways it could be constructed, it took longer in the edit to find the exact version."

One of the positive side in filming the Rogue One is that, it can afford to take such detour (reshooting) in its creative process. Garet's further description of the situation is that it sounds like the budget was never an issue, but rather the time involved with the measures that were required to pull the film to manageable shape.

"We'd always planned to do a pickup shoot but we need a lot of time to figure out all this material and get the best out of it. So, that pushed the entire schedule in a big way. Our visual effects shot count went from 600 to nearly 1,700, so suddenly we could do absolutely anything we wanted.", Garet Edwards continues.

According to Slashfilm, it seems that the production was just needed some time to sort out what the movie needed to be, and the unique shooting style for this one meant spending a more extensive amount in post-production getting everything right.

Garet Edwards attitude to be flexible pays a lot in making the film. He figures out what the movie was supposed to be rather than stubbornly sticking to a vision that wasn't working in the end.

"It would be beautiful if you write a story, you shoot exactly that, you edit it and it is a hit. But art, a good art, doesn't work like that. It's a process, and you experiment and react and improve. And if I make more films, which I hope to, I want to make them like that as well, where it's all organic and it's not predetermined", Garet Edwards told the Slahfilm.