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Felicity Jones reveals why Rogue One needed reshoots

When it was revealed earlier this year that ‘Rogue One’ would be undergoing reshoots the entire cinematic community seemed to overreact in unison.

Despite the fact that pretty much every single Marvel movie, as well as most blockbusters, do reshoots, after ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’’ success and with ‘Rogue One’ labelled “an experiment of sorts” by Disney CEO Bob Iger, there were worries that the eighth instalment to the sci-fi franchise was in trouble.

But Felicity Jones, who will play Jyn Elso in ‘Rogue One’, has insisted that the reshoots, which reportedly cost $30 million to do, were just par for the course, as this was the umpteenth time that she’s had to do them for one of her films, and that they made everything just a little bit better,

“Obviously when you come to the edit, you see the film come together and you think, ‘Actually, we could do this better, and this would make more sense if we did this’,” Jones said to The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve done it so many times. I mean, you wouldn’t just give your first draft on this story, would you?”

Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm who is overseeing the expansion of the ‘Star Wars’ universe, was just as adamant that there no issues with the reshoots.

“I’m sure if you picked up the phone and called every single large, technical movie and said, ‘You ever gone in and done reshoots?’ they’d all say, ‘Oh Go, yes. So why has it turned into a big story? Because it’s ‘Star Wars’, and they put a spotlight and scrutinize every single thing that gets done. But it was always planned and nothing unusual,” Kennedy declared.

We’re now just over two months away from ‘Rogue One’, and there’s still some trepidation about how it will fare at the box office. Sure, it’s set to rival ‘Captain America: Civil War’s’ $1.153 billion haul at the top of the box office, but the real question is how close it will get to ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’’ $2.068 billion.

We’ll find out when ‘Rogue One’ is released on December 16, which will be around the same time that Felicity Jones confirms her status as a national treasure.

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