If you’ve seen Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope, you know how the upcoming Rogue One will end. Not the specific ending, but the story details. The director of the new Star Wars film, Gareth Edwards, commented on how they made the story work with everyone pretty much knowing how it ends, via Entertainment Weekly.
“The thing every [filmmaker] typically struggles with is ‘How does it end?’ But we knew how our film was going to end. Our problem became ‘How do we reverse engineer from that and know where to start?’ You’ve got a finite number of options and you go through them all like a puzzle to find the one that’s going to lead to the strongest result.”
Rogue One stars Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, and James Earl Jones.
“From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,’ an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.”
The films opens in theaters on December 16.
