We’re just over a week away from the global theatrical release of Rogue One and new behind-the-scenes information on the film continues to roll out. Director Gareth Edwards shared some details with Entertainment Weekly on how he and cinematographer Greig Fraser approached the element of filming some of the action we’ll be seeing with X-wing fighters in Rogue One from the first-person perspective.
“When we were filming the X-wing footage in the film, we had the X-wing [cockpit] mounted to a gimbal so it could move around, like it was really flying,” Edwards says. “Then all around were the screens, in 180 degrees, that were projecting space and this pre-animated flight path as the X-wing was moving around, like it was really flying.”
