I attended the press junket this past weekend for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, during which time I had the chance to chat one-on-one with director Gareth Edwards about the politics of the film, the legend of the Jedi by the time of Rogue One, and the timelessness of Star Wars stories.
Disney screened 28 minutes of footage from Rogue One before press interviews, but fear not: This is a spoiler-free conversation with the filmmaker about his movie, which follows a group of Rebel spies out to steal the plans for the Death Star in the time leading up to the events of the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope.
IGN: The fall of the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith only happened roughly twenty years before Rogue One begins and yet they're treated as almost a myth. How does your film address how it seems that so many people and recent events can be almost forgotten or treated as myth in just a few decades?
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Disney screened 28 minutes of footage from Rogue One before press interviews, but fear not: This is a spoiler-free conversation with the filmmaker about his movie, which follows a group of Rebel spies out to steal the plans for the Death Star in the time leading up to the events of the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope.
IGN: The fall of the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith only happened roughly twenty years before Rogue One begins and yet they're treated as almost a myth. How does your film address how it seems that so many people and recent events can be almost forgotten or treated as myth in just a few decades?
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