Riz Ahmed on the Star Wars Reshoots. He Says Rogue One Is “Like a War Movie”!
After several weeks of dark rumors about the Rogue One reshoots, now come the weeks with reports reassuring the fans that these reshoots are perfectly normal, and there is no truth in the rumors that half of the movie is being remade. First, it was Mads Mikkelsen who tried to calm things down in an interview with the Independent. Then EW took this to another level speaking directly to the likes of Kathleen Kennedy and Gareth Edwards on the truth about the reshoots. Now actor Riz Ahmed shares his thoughts, discussing the reshoots, the negative reports surrounding the movie (calling them bonkers) and Rogue One in general…
According to EW’s coverage on Rogue One from last week Riz Ahmed plays Bodhi Rook – the lead pilot of the rebels. He is said to be a hot-headed but very experienced cargo pilot, who tends to be a little tense. It’s also a mystery, why his uniform has an Imperial logo on his shoulder.
Recently Ahmed spoke with BBC and shared his thoughts on the reshoots, the negative reports on the movie and more.
From BBC.co.uk:
Reshoots on major movies aren’t “uncommon” according to one of the stars of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Riz Ahmed. Riz said producers “allocate a budget always for reshoots”. He added that he could understand why people were “fixated” on the production of the movie though.
Riz will play lead pilot Bodhi Rook in Rogue One, which he described as “like a war movie”.
“A film has three lives: it’s the script, it’s the shoot and it’s the edit. And by the time you get to the edit its always a slightly different film. “And then you go ‘OK right, it’s that type of film? OK well let’s go back and create the pieces we need to make that’.”
Riz admitted that he’d read some of the negative reports surrounding Rogue One, which is due for general release at the end of this year. He said they were “bonkers”. “I can’t speak for Disney, but I’m happy. I think we did some really cool stuff before, we’re doing some really cool stuff now. “I think it’s going to be a pretty cool film, because it’s a slightly different kind of Star Wars. It’s like a war movie.”
Only in two weeks time we will have even more info and new footage from Rogue One at Star Wars: Celebration. The big question is whether the footage will be a new trailer or some behind the scenes stuff like they did with The Force Awakens.
Start Wars: Celebration starts on July 15 with the Rogue One panel.
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“Like” a war movie, (but for kids)
“Like” a war movie (but for families) and if you want it to be anything outside of a family movie than you don’t know what Star Wars movies are meant to be. Every movie we get will be for family. If you want something that you can’t share with your family pick up some of the books or comics.
Traditional family values: slicing younglings.
making out with your sister/brother!
…and really liking it
Choking your pregnant wife.
Fighting your kid’s teacher in the hallway.
Inappropriately torturing your daughter unawares.
Emotionally supporting your boyfriend/husband’s emotional bitching and psychotic tendencies.
When Queens wear bondage gear for their genocidal boyfriends.
I’m not so sure. I think that things like the Lego Freemaker stuff and Rebels show that Disney are prepared to trying different projects with different levels of maturity.
I’m not saying it’s going to be sex and swearing, but I can see it being a little more mature than, say, a CGI fest full of cartoon aliens.
I heard Poe Dameron stops by and cracks some joke everytime the movie gets too serious and tension is building up, then he disappears without warning untill the next joke.
Thanks for that. Although I had enjoyed it at first, I later realized that Poe’s joke to Kylo Ren on Jakku ruined the tension they had created.
with occasional BB8 cameo giving lighter-thumbs up everytime a bunch of Stormtroopers gets blown up
The thumbs up is for TFA fanboys, all I see is a middle finger at SW fans
haha nice one!
Just like your comment was “Like” an adult comment, but for trolls who know nothing.
Just “like” I pretend to care for your comment
Aren’t you a kid?
If anyone in the U.S. mainland is curious….the Rogue One panel starts at 16:00-17:00 London time, so in the U.S. that means 8am PT, 9am MT, 10am CT, 11am ET. I am pretty sure that it will be live streamed just like last year. Disney/Lucasfilm loves us!
Riz Ahmed is a good actor, I saw him in Nightcrawler. Since Disney is all about diversity, representation and progressiveness now, why didn’t they pick him as the lead for the movie instead of a petite english girl that can’t act and obviously don’t fit the character she was given? They bragged about having a black dude as co-lead to the white girl in TFA. Why not go further and a white girl co-lead to a pakistani main lead? Or is Disney scared that their audience isn’t this much progressive?