Show Notes
By early 2016, Rogue One had wrapped shooting and moved into the edit. Editors Jabez Olssen and Colin Goudie had been cutting the film since the day cameras rolled, but with director Gareth Edwards's loose, unplanned shooting style and habit of shooting images over story, the edit would take, according to Edwards, "three years".
They had nine months.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a complete different team were pouring over the Rogue One rushes to create a much shorter version of the film that would be seen by far more people: the trailers. Notably different to the films, the trailers have been the source of Rogue One conspiracy theories since the film's release, but was the film ever anything like the trailers? And were the trailers ever anything like the film?
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CLIPS:
- E.C. Henry's Rogue One Editor Interview: Colin Goudie (spoiler-free)
- The Director's Cut - Rogue One with Gareth Edwards and Chris Miller
- The Filmmakers Podcast - How To Edit A Star Wars Movie with Rogue One and Monsters Editor Colin Goudie
- A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
- Star Wars & The Empire Strikes Back Trailers (Lucasfilm, 1976 & 1979)
- Rogue One Trailers (Lucasfilm, 2016)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer (Lucasfilm, 2017)
MUSIC:
"Jet Fueled Vixen", "Floating Cities", "Odyssey", "Lost Frontier", "Bleeping Demo", "Stay the Course", "Hiding Your Reality", "The Complex", "Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Prelude", "Envision", "Prelude & Action", "Industrial Cinematic", "Lithium", "Intrepid" & "I Can Feel It Coming"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Suspended Animation" & "I Domine" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
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