EW on Dantooine Almost Being in Rogue One, Saw Gerrera’s Initial Hideout Location and the Famous Jyn vs TIE Shot

Entertainment Weekly posted their final article with interesting details about Rogue One, ahead of its Digital HD release today. It focuses on the popular Jyn vs TIE Fighter shot from the movie’s first trailers and other interesting tidbits about Dantooine, Saw Gerrera’s hideout and more.

 

 

According to Gareth Edwards, the shot with Jyn walking towards an Imperial TIE Fighter on the Scarif communication tower only existed for marketing purposes and it was never intended to be used in the movie, just the trailers.

 

“It was something the marketing team fell in love with,” Edwards says. “We knew it would not be in the film. It’s one of those things where all the trailers are put together way before the film comes out. It wasn’t a specific part of the story.”

 

Also Edwards revealed how the planet Dantooine was almost in the movie:

 

“We did a few things to save money and one of them was they go to a Rebel base in the first half of the film, then go off on their adventure, and the second half of the film they return to a Rebel base,” says Edwards. “It used to be that the first half of the movie was not on Yavin it was Dantooine.”

 

 

Another interesting tidbit was that due to budget reasons Saw Gerrera’s hideout was moved from a moon with an electrically charged atmosphere to Jedha.

 

The article goes on to reveal several other tidbits, like the crew’s desire to include more classic characters in the movie, but decided that it would have been too much fan service.

Interestingly Admiral Ackbar was in the movie’s first script, but later they decided against using him since he made an appearance in The Force Awakens and it would have been to much.

 

For the full story go to Entertainment Weekly

 

 

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15 thoughts on “EW on Dantooine Almost Being in Rogue One, Saw Gerrera’s Initial Hideout Location and the Famous Jyn vs TIE Shot

  • March 24, 2017 at 9:06 pm
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    I remember reading somewhere that Gary Whitta’s oringial cript was ” too expensive”…I would have loved to have known what was in it that they couldn’t put on screen for budget reasons

    • March 24, 2017 at 9:36 pm
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      I like expensive stuff !

  • March 24, 2017 at 9:37 pm
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    Oh, so the TIE fighter shot was basically a lie, then? Because if it’s not something that was ever intended to be in the movie (a different situation than a scene that got deleted later on), then it had no business being in the trailer.

  • March 24, 2017 at 9:41 pm
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    it’s what is known as false advertising. If it is not in the movie, do not use it. The behind the scenes of this movie is so shady

    • March 25, 2017 at 12:34 am
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      Lighten up Francis, there’s not false advertising at play. Trailers are cut before long before films are completed. Almost every film trailer (including those from the original trilogy) have scenes not in the final cut. Given that this film had a lot of last minute reshoots – the Vader rampage being shot four weeks before the film release for instance – it was inevitable that the trailers would be inaccurate.

      I worked on a Lord of the Rings game back in the day. We included images from Saruman’s death scene, which was cut from the theatrical version of the film. However, we had to go to manufacturing long before Jackson locked his final cut and there was nothing we could do. Shit happens.

      • March 25, 2017 at 7:05 am
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        First of all, I agree.

        Second, are you able to say which LotR game?

    • March 25, 2017 at 12:53 am
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      I agree it is false advertisement. The trailer is an advertisement, we invest money into going to see the film because you expect to see the images in the trailer.

      I you payed for a pet which was advertised as a dog and got a fish in return you would complain.

      • March 25, 2017 at 2:03 am
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        “you expect to see the images in the trailer.”

        No, you expect to see the finished film. Unless you’re saying that basically every film ever has taken part in false advertising. Scenes get cut. Scenes get made just for trailers. It’s nothing new.

        • March 25, 2017 at 2:17 pm
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          You expect the see a finished film which includes the images/scenes in the trailer that made you want to purchase the cinema ticket.
          I’m not blaming just Rogue One, most films do this. And it is especially prominent today as many people watch, pause and analyse trailers nowadays for discussion on Youtube.
          Imagine at the last minute they decided that Vader wasnt needed in Rogue One and removed him from the film. There would be uproar because he was in the trailer.

          • March 25, 2017 at 2:52 pm
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            Then you are brand new at seeing movies lol

          • March 25, 2017 at 10:40 pm
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            Oh well, that’s that. Before YouTube was even a thing, trailers included scenes that aren’t in the finished film. FIlms get edited as time goes on, scenes get deleted, and shots stay in trailers because they look cool and sell the *atmosphere* and idea of the film. That’s all they can do.

  • March 24, 2017 at 10:14 pm
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    If the marketing department fell in love with that shot, then it had to exist for them to fall in love with it. Maybe it was cut early in the editing process, but I’m not buying that it was never intended to be in the movie. Visual effects aren’t cheap, and that wasn’t some slap-dash, made-only-for-marketing effort, either. That was excellent CGI.

    • March 24, 2017 at 10:40 pm
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      Yup. It’s a shame it’s not there. Usually I’m not too fusy about SFX as long as the story is good, but I felt that shot was rather magnificent and it’s a shame it wasn’t kept.

    • March 25, 2017 at 12:30 am
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      You’d be surprised how much money goes into work that is never intended for the final film. The shot without FX is from footage of scenes that are definitely in the film. Adding that Tie Fighter would be relatively cheap given ILM’s massive library of assets to pull from and the compositing isn’t anything complicated.

      My guess – this was a scene created as part of an internal sizzle reel early in the production, before there was a final design for the Strikers and/or Reapers. It used existing footage from dailies and they dropped in a TIE to make an otherwise uninteresting shot have more impact. Note that Jyn doesn’t react at all to the TIE pulling up in front of her. Remember that the shot of Jyn in her Imperial ground crew uniform from the “what will you become” scene in the trailers was also specifically shot for marketing.

  • March 25, 2017 at 7:08 am
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    The “electrically charged atmosphere” planet sounds very intriguing; I hope this is one of those unused concepts that they find a way to recycle someday!

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