Despite its billion-dollar success, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was not short of production problems. The film had to go through reshoots with Tony Gilroy being called in to “fix” the film after director Gareth Edwards completed principal photography. Now screenwriter Chris Weitz has revealed what Rogue One was really like before all the big changes took place. Speaking with The Playlist, he revealed what the draft by Gary Whitta looked like before he had a go at the script.
Weitz said: “The version prior to that didn’t have everyone die. As a matter of fact, it ended with a wedding.
“I think it was on the presumption that Disney wouldn’t allow characters to die with such abandon.
“I felt it was necessary because nobody ever mentions them or sees them again. But also because we’ve done this whole sort of theme about sacrifice that it was appropriate that all of our main characters die.”
On Gilroy’s changes, Weitz revealed: “If you imagine the beginning of the second act and
