Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) on Netflix
PG-1320162h 13mActionAdventureSci-Fi
Jyn Erso is freed from an Imperial labor camp by the Rebel Alliance, which wants her to help find her father, Galen Erso. She is sent with Cassian Andor and K-2SO.
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Plot summary
Galen Erso is a scientist in hiding with his wife Lyra Erso and daughter Jyn Erso when Imperial officer Orson Krennic comes to press him into finishing a secret Imperial project. Jyn escapes and is rescued by Saw Gerrera. Fifteen years later, Jyn is a prisoner of the Empire. Rebel Alliance forces free her and bring her to their base, where Mon Mothma asks her to find Galen so the Rebels can learn what the Empire is building. She agrees to help and travels to Jedha with intelligence officer Cassian Andor and the droid K-2SO. Elsewhere, Imperial cargo pilot Bodhi Rook defects and carries a message from Galen to Saw, who is leading an insurgency on Jedha.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
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- Tony Gilroy wrote additional scenes for five weeks of reshoots on Rogue One and oversaw the edit and additional photography, tackling issues including the ending; he was paid $5 million and given screenplay credit alongside Chris Weitz.
- Gareth Edwards assumed Disney would not allow a dark ending, so the original script had the main characters surviving; the producers instead opted for a more tragic ending, and that original version was never filmed.
- John Knoll, visual effects supervisor on the Star Wars prequels, originally pitched Rogue One's story in 2003 as an episode of the unproduced TV series Star Wars: Underworld, writing a treatment called "Destroyer of Worlds"; he pitched it again after Disney bought Lucasfilm.
- Michael Giacchino replaced Alexandre Desplat as composer after Desplat left for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and had only four and a half weeks to write the score, starting almost immediately after finishing Doctor Strange.
- ILM used CGI and digitally altered archive footage to put Peter Cushing's likeness over actor Guy Henry's body, with Henry providing motion capture and voice and a digital model of Cushing mapped over his performance; Lucasfilm got permission from Cushing's estate.
- Before Felicity Jones was cast in the lead, Tatiana Maslany and Rooney Mara were among the actresses being assessed for it, while Aaron Paul and Édgar Ramírez were eyed for the male lead role.
- In September 2024, Kevin Francis, a longtime friend of Peter Cushing, filed a lawsuit against Disney for unjust enrichment, claiming Cushing had made clear he did not want his likeness reused without his consent.
- Gareth Edwards chose the London Underground's Canary Wharf station as a location for a chase scene inside an Imperial base; the shoot took place overnight, while the station was closed to the public.
