In a new interview with Variety, Gareth Edwards discusses his upcoming film The Creator and addresses reports that he was replaced during reshoots on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
In reference to The Creator, Edwards said “The way you make a film is as important as its screenplay. I would take full control over the process and a mediocre screenplay over a really good screenplay and zero control over the process.”
That reference to losing “control over the process” is as close as Edwards gets to addressing multiple reports that “Rogue One” was effectively taken away from him by Lucasfilm for extensive reshoots overseen by Tony Gilroy (who went on to create the “Rogue One” prequel series “Andor” for Disney+). When I ask Edwards about those stories, he grimaces again.
“Look, the only thing I can say is I was incredibly lucky,” he says. “I got to make a ‘Star Wars’ film. I won the lottery, in that sense. The idea of someone as privileged as me in any way implying that it was anything other than the amazing experience that it was to some extent — like, I don’t have any empathy for that person, and I don’t want to be that person either.”
Read the interview in full here. The Creator arrives in cinemas in the UK on September 28th, and in the US a day later on September 29th.
