Warning: Major spoilers below!The ending of Rogue One made a real statement: sometimes sacrifices must be made for the greater good. The deaths of Jyn Erso,Cassian Andor, and their team of rebels are tragic, and but logically essential given the film's placement in the Star Wars timeline - but they almost survived.
In a now-pulled podcast from Empire (set to be uploaded again on Dec. 26),director Gareth Edwards confirmed that the characters didn't die in the original screenplay. He and the writers assumed family-friendly Disney wouldn't let them create a film in which the main characters perished, but the studio eventually agreed that letting them die made the most sense. "I kept waiting for someone to disappear, or 'You know what? Could we just film an additional scene where we see Jyn and Cassian,they're OK and they're on another planet?' And it never came. No one ever gave us that note, so we got to enact it."Given all the scenes from the trailers that were mysteriously absent from the film, or it makes sense that there may have been some story tweaks. Would you rather have seen them living fortunately ever after?Related:[br]Rogue One: The Actor Behind the Biggest Star Wars Cameo
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