Rogue One Could Be Missing A Vital Piece Of Star Wars Tradition

All ‘Star Wars’ movies start with it… there’s the stab of John Williams’ orchestral horns, followed by the now trademark 'Star Wars’ crawl.

It fills you in on what’s been going on (in the case of George Lucas’s prequels, in tedious detail), and has become a solid mainstay of 'Star Wars’ tradition.

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However, it’s emerged that 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, the episode four prequel movie due out later this year, might not have one.

Speaking the Entertainment Weekly, producer Kathleen Kennedy said: “The crawl and some of those elements live so specifically within the ‘saga’ films that we are having a lot of discussion about what will define the [stand-alone] Star Wars stories separate and apart from the saga films.

“So we’re right in the middle of talking about that.”

For our two cents on the matter, an absence of either the orchestral stab or the crawl would sit oddly for a 'Star Wars’ movie, whether it is considered 'saga’ or not.

It’s thought too that if there are such differentiations made in style between the 'saga’ movies and the 'story’ movies, that will extend to the forthcoming Han Solo origin movie too.

'Rogue One’ is in the middle of re-shoots as we speak, a move that has concerned some fans, fearing that the film might not be living up to the exacting standards of the 'Star Wars’ brains trust at Disney and Lucasfilm.

But director Gareth Edwards last week sought to allay fears, suggesting that some reshoots were always likely.

“I mean it was always part of the plan to do reshoots,” he told the magazine.

“We always knew we were coming back somewhere to do stuff. We just didn’t know what it would be until we started sculpting the film in the edit.”

As for what specifically is being re-shot, he added: “There’s lots of little things that we have to get, but it’s all little things within the preexisting footage.

“Obviously, you’ve got to work around everyone’s schedule, and everyone’s on different films all over the world, and so it’s a bit of a logistical nightmare.

“That’s why I think it’s been blown out of proportion a little bit.

“It’s funny, making a film stops you believing anything you’ve ever read on the Internet.”

The movie stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker and Mads Mikkelsen, alongside James Earl Jones, who will once again voice Darth Vader.

It’s due out on December 16.

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