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Rumour: Christopher McQuarrie brought in to “save” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

January 18, 2016 by Gary Collinson

Back in October it was rumoured by that Disney and Lucasfilm had enlisted Oscar-winner Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) to polish the script for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

The original report claimed that McQuarrie spent a couple of weeks working on the original script by Gary Whitta (After Earth) and Chris Weitz (Cinderella). However, Birth.Movies.Death is now claiming that his involvement was actually much more than that, and that he was brought in early in the shoot to “save” the project as Lucasfilm felt that the script still wasn’t in the right place.

SEE ALSO: Darth Vader will appear in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but it won’t be Hayden Christensen in the suit

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is set for release on December 16th 2016, with a cast that includes Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) Diego Luna (Milk), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Donnie Yen (Ip Man), Jiang Wen (Let the Bullets Fly), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Alan Tudyk (Con Man) and Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler).

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Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Christopher McQuarrie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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