In advance of a new Rogue One trailer scheduled to arrive on Thursday of this week, Entertainment Weekly has posted an article in which director Gareth Edwards provides us with some tidbits on the planet Jedha and the general importance of this new planet to the plot of the film.
More Rogue One goodness focusing on the character Bodhi Rook (played on screen by actor Riz Ahmed) will be coming from EW tomorrow, so enjoy the article below and then check back tomorrow for their second piece.
‘The Force is basically in Star Wars like a religion, and they’re losing their faith in the period that we start the movie,’ says Gareth Edwards, director of the story that’s set just prior to the events of 1977’s original Star Wars.
‘We were trying to find a physical location we could go to that would speak to the themes of losing your faith and the choice between letting the Empire win, or evil win, and good prevailing,’ he says. ‘It got embodied in this place we called Jedha.’
