Colin Trevorrow no longer directing Episode IX.
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Imagine what the Wachowski brothers would do with Star Wars.
Blasphemer!!!! I feel filthy even thinking such thoughts.
Imagine what the Wachowski brothers would do with Star Wars.
*sisters
They've both transitioned.
How many directors have Disney/Kennedy fired so far in their Star Wars films? Josh Trank, Phil Lord, Gareth Edwards, Christopher Miller, Colin Trevorrow... Am I forgetting someone?
How/when was Edwards fired? His movie was finished, came out, made a bunch of moolah...
It was Tony Gilroy's film, they just left Edward's name on it.
Edwards' movie was finished by another director exactly like Justice League and Han Solo but, OK, let me rephrase if you're sensitive about the word "fired".
How many directors have Disney/Kennedy hired so far in their Star Wars films?
There's JJ Abrams, Josh Trank, Gareth Edwards, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Tony Gilroy, Rian Johnson, Colin Trevorrow, Ron Howard, the yet unnamed Ep.IX director... And that's for 5 films only so far!
Bullcrap.
Gilroy came in to do reshoots, but was never going to get credit for that.... and couldn't get credit for that under current DGA statutes.
Good grief, this makes the whole thing with Gary Kurtz being fired look like peanuts.Edwards' movie was finished by another director exactly like Justice League and Han Solo but, OK, let me rephrase if you're sensitive about the word "fired".
How many directors have Disney/Kennedy hired so far in their Star Wars films?
There's JJ Abrams, Josh Trank, Gareth Edwards, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Tony Gilroy, Rian Johnson, Colin Trevorrow, Ron Howard, the yet unnamed Ep.IX director... And that's for 5 films only so far!
I'm not sensitive about it, I just questioned putting Edwards on a list of fired directors.
Who? Edit: Ah! Saw.
Bob Odenkirk was supposed to be in Rogue One?
I thought Edwards stayed around the whole time, and Gilroy just worked with him to finish things up?
It's my understanding that Edwards completed principal photography, or at least enough to qualify as the film's director according to DGA statutes, although he struggled to create a satisfactory narrative in Post, prompting Kennedy to bring in Gilroy.
This is bullshit control, here are the facts: -
Tony Gilroy (brother of John Gilroy, who was one of Edward's editors on the production) was hired on during the reshoots to help write some of the new material (hence the screenplay credit) and to serve as a *second unit director* alongside Edwards.
The nature of the reshoots being mostly character based and involved altering bits of dialogue within existing scenes, as well as a few embellishments like the brief introductions to Kassian, Jyn and I think the Vader scenes were re-contextualised.
Gareth Edwards was never fired off of Rogue One. At all.
Pro-tip: Director's who get fired absolutely do *not* stick around to do press for the movie, are not asked to record commentary tracks for the BluRay, do not show up to Star Wars Celebration to participate in panels and most of all, do not stand around for an hour dressed as a Stormtrooper to prank someone else's panel.
This was not a case of a Director that went off the rails, this was a Director who was a good team player and recognised that this was Lucasfilm's toybox and he wasn't there as an auteur director. The film needed help to get it over the final hurdles, so help it got.
Anyone that thinks previous Star Wars movies magically materialised without a hitch clearly have no clue as to the history of these things. After wrapping principle photography on 'Star Wars', Lucas had to be checked into hospital after suffering from chest pains. That's how much stress he was under.
The Tunisia shoot was a nightmare thanks to bad weather, several practical effect not working at all (R2 in particular) and just not being able to get all the footage he wanted.
In the UK shoot he was constantly fighting the clock, the budget and had to deal with infighting among key production members, fire his first editor who refused to cut the movie the way he wanted it and in all that time, ILM had spent most of it's budget on R&D and failed to produce more than one or two usable shots. All the while Fox was breathing down his neck about the schedule, with the final week of shooting being an insane rush with multiple units shooting at once, with Lucas bicycling back and forth between sound stages.
Back in the US he had to hire several editors to work in parallel just to cut enough material each week to have a prayer of making the release (already pushed back from Christmas '76 to Summer '77) and all of this was before (*gasp*) the reshoots!!!
Tony Gilroy (brother of John Gilroy, who was one of Edward's editors on the production) was hired on during the reshoots to help write some of the new material (hence the screenplay credit) and to serve as a *second unit director* alongside Edwards.
The nature of the reshoots being mostly character based and involved altering bits of dialogue within existing scenes, as well as a few embellishments like the brief introductions to Kassian, Jyn and I think the Vader scenes were re-contextualised.
Gareth Edwards was never fired off of Rogue One. At all.
Pro-tip: Director's who get fired absolutely do *not* stick around to do press for the movie, are not asked to record commentary tracks for the BluRay, do not show up to Star Wars Celebration to participate in panels and most of all, do not stand around for an hour dressed as a Stormtrooper to prank someone else's panel.
This was not a case of a Director that went off the rails, this was a Director who was a good team player and recognised that this was Lucasfilm's toybox and he wasn't there as an auteur director. The film needed help to get it over the final hurdles, so help it got.
Anyone that thinks previous Star Wars movies magically materialised without a hitch clearly have no clue as to the history of these things. After wrapping principle photography on 'Star Wars', Lucas had to be checked into hospital after suffering from chest pains. That's how much stress he was under.
The Tunisia shoot was a nightmare thanks to bad weather, several practical effect not working at all (R2 in particular) and just not being able to get all the footage he wanted.
In the UK shoot he was constantly fighting the clock, the budget and had to deal with infighting among key production members, fire his first editor who refused to cut the movie the way he wanted it and in all that time, ILM had spent most of it's budget on R&D and failed to produce more than one or two usable shots. All the while Fox was breathing down his neck about the schedule, with the final week of shooting being an insane rush with multiple units shooting at once, with Lucas bicycling back and forth between sound stages.
Back in the US he had to hire several editors to work in parallel just to cut enough material each week to have a prayer of making the release (already pushed back from Christmas '76 to Summer '77) and all of this was before (*gasp*) the reshoots!!!
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I may have misspoken on that point (don't actually own the Bluray), but the rest of it stands regardless.