With the upcoming release of the Disney+ show Andor, it's time to take a look back and ask if RogueOne: A StarWars Story still holds up today.
Rogue One, about a band of fledgling Rebels who attempt to steal the Death Star plans, holds the distinction of achieving something no Star Wars film had since A New Hope: it became a surprise hit. Well, OK, not exactly. As only the second Star Wars feature film to hit theaters since 2005, everybody knew it would make money no matter what. But there were lots of questions and some pessimistic predictions.
I don’t just mean expensive special effects, which every blockbuster contains. I mean that every frame of Rogue One is lushly photographed and the production is generous in the many stunning locations in which it stages the action. Star Wars producers are always looking for new environments and they found one of their most unique in the Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach where the opening sequence is filmed.
Gilroy’s contributions There’s little doubt that Gilroy’s work on the film probably saved it. Among his reported additions was the instantly iconic scene in which Darth Vader saws his way into a corridor and savagely dispatches a band of terrified Rebels. The ferocity felt exiting and new – the kind of Vader we should have had but that couldn’t exist before filmmaking innovations made him possible.
The fact that it happens so early in the film signals that Rogue One will have a different tenor, that it will dramatize something of the realism of making hard decisions under impossible conditions, and that it may signal a Star Wars story that isn’t stuffed full of cute and funny like The Force Awakens, which was still present in people’s memories when Rogue One came out. It was a bold and inspired moment.
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