ST ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ To Move Back into Production with Reshoots in Ireland

Well he most likely got the gist of the ending he wanted (the characters all sacrificing themselves), but there were tonal shifts due to hear reshoots. The changed ending of them sitting on the beach together before blowing up is pretty cheesey. Would have just rather seen Cassian get shot up by the bunker doors. The remixed ending combined with the fact that Ben M. Said a "very different version" exist is enough to convince me Disney got cold feet in a few things.

Rogue One in general makes me nervous for all future Star Wars movies. Not just it's ending

 

If I would be a director of such a movie (and almost unlimited budget) I would do reshoots for every single scene that is not 120%.
I think that is exactly what they do now (+ correcting some Carrie story, maybe)

 

Given how good it was, Rogue One in general makes me optimistic for all future Star Wars movies.

 

Technically this isn't the thread to discuss it, but Rogue One was not a good film. It was massive amounts of fan service so I can see why hardcore fans of "all things Star Wars' got so worked up over it. Great looking film, but the characters and script are bland. It's not bad, but it is extremely run of the mill.

 

Everything depends on where in Ireland and Scotland they are shooting. For example, if there are reshoots at Isle of Sky in Scotland, I can't see that relating to Leia at all. And Ireland? All we know is that they built an Ach-To set in Ireland which would, again, signify it has nothing to do with Leia. One could EASILY speculate the reshoots have to do with the Ach-To scenes. That would be MUCH safer of a bet.

Purely speculation and not based on anything meaningful at that.

 

Your opinion. And both my wife and a colleague, the former a film critic and the latter a cineaste (neither of whom are SW fans at all) felt RO was not only that best and most nuanced SW film (from both a character and narrative perspective) - but an excellent film in general. So this myth that it only works as fan service for hardcore fans is a myth.

 

This tangent about the merits (or lack thereof) of Rogue One doesn't really belong here...

 

Yeah I have to agree, Dagobah (Pinewood) for me is magic, now granted it was first viewed by my then 7 yo eyes in the theater in 1980, but those scenes in particular still give me goosebumps today. Maybe its the totality; the acting (still hard to believe its a just Frank Oz, a puppet and Mark Hamil), the soundtrack, and the set, but I'll take that good old fashion movie magic mixed with real world locations any day.

 

I don't think the opening scene was atrocious, but it clearly was shot in a studio lot. Everything felt small and cramped due to the camera work in that scene. It just wasn't executed well at all.

Sent from my communication device on which I hardly do any communicating.

 

there are reshoots because RJ has decided to make a 3+ hour epic. He wants to make the Braveheart of SW.

 

There were characters in Rogue One?

 

Was the general note upthread not clear enough? This is not a thread for discussing Rogue One, and certainly not a thread for baiting.

 

yes, 3+ hours of badass Luke.

 

I find it bizarre how twitchy people get about re-shoots/pick-ups.
Obviously Rogue One was extensively rejigged, but that seems to have made people forget, again, that pick-ups and re-jigs are all part of the process (and that dealing with real world intrusions into the making of the film are realities all the time, just more obvious to us when it's something like the sad news about Carrie Fisher's death)

It's not like after principal photography, all of fandom *knows* that RJ has just bottled lightning, and the only hope is that the genius he's filmed makes it to the cinema intact. The material filmed is the building blocks of the film, and the pick ups are to make everything hold together more tightly.

 

Especially since a major cast member has died. To be honest, I would be worried if we didn't get significant reshoots.

 

Maybe they want closure that a verbal reference in IX can't give an honorable and more dramatic punch.

 

So long as the reshoots don't mean actors in obviously fake beards and wigs being haphazardly edited into scenes shot months ago, a la AOTC, i'm pretty cool with whatever they do.

 

Finally has this none rumour died?

Someone mentioned MSW saying reshoots are scheduled for 2017 in Ireland, I don't know about that or specifics but it was believed that there was a small window allocated to shoot in Ireland if needed. As far as i'm aware no shoot has taken place this year in Ireland...

 

There was one in North Dublin. Late February:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.rte.ie/amp/853934/

 

What the heck.....?

 

damn.

 

brutal...