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'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Writer Gary Whitta on Alternate Endings, Discarded Characters, and How He Came Up With the Title
Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen in Rogue One. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (on Digital HD this Friday and Blu-ray April 4) was such a massive hit that it’s hard to recall how risky the idea seemed. A screenwriter with several sci-fi films (The Book of Eli, After Earth) and Star Wars: Rebels episodes under his belt, Whitta was hired to turn the events that preceded 1977’s A New Hope — specifically, the theft of the Death Star plans — into a screenplay that would feel simultaneously like Star Wars and
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'Rogue One' Writer Reveals That the Prequel Almost Featured a Nerf Herder
Gary Whitta, who has a story credit on new stand-alone 'Star Wars' film, answered fans questions in an hourlong chat on Twitter
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Disney CEO Says 'Rogue One' Has 'No Political Statements' in It
Disney CEO Bob Iger told the Hollywood Reporter that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has “no political statements in it, at all.” That comes after a recent call for a boycott by the self-described alt-right, a political group accused of espousing racist, anti-Semitic, and homo-/xenophobic philosophies. Rogue One co-writer Chris Weitz, whose tweet inspired #DumpStarWars. Weitz offered, “People.
