Now here’s an interesting little nugget. Today’s “Rogue One Revelations” piece from Entertainment Weekly reveals that Lucasfilm had initially written Jyn’s mother Lyra Erso to be a Jedi who was killed by the hand of Director Krennic.
Check out an excerpt from the article below and be sure to catch up on EW’s earlier Rogue One reveals via these links:
Details on Alternate Ending
Early Draft Had Vader Killing a Major Character
“The prologue, at one point a long time ago, was going to be the Empire coming to kill the Jedi,” says director Gareth Edwards. “And Jyn’s mom was going to be a Jedi.”
The math holds up. If Jyn is in her early to mid-20s for most of the movie, and 19 years have passed between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, then she would have been about 4 to 6 years old when the Emperor unleashed Order 66 to exterminate the Jedi.
Edwards says the initial prologue concept for Rogue One was, “We were witnessing one of those kills and Krennic would be the person sent to do it.”
