12 Rogue One Scenes Missing From The Film

Forcefully Removed?

♦Our friends over at MovieWeb have picked up on a dozen scenes that were alluded to in the various trailers and TV spots which seem to be conspicuously absent from the finished product so here they are, courtesy of MovieWeb. Warning: there are a few spoilers here if you haven’t seen Rogue One…

Jyn Erso vs. The Tie Fighter

First and foremost, the most notable missing shot is a huge moment from the very first trailer. It sees Jyn Erso facing off against a Tie Fighter while she stands on an outdoor bridge at the Imperial outpost on Scarif. She is desperately trying to get a message to the Rebels that are up above, locked out of the planet by a big intergalactic gate that surrounds the Scarif, keeping them out. This one is hard to miss, because it seems that most of the scene is there. Except for the Tie Fighter. It appeared to be a huge moment in the trailer, and it’s one that you are waiting for, because it really is a great-looking shot. Who is in the Tie Fighter? That hasn’t been revealed. But we do know that the ending we see in cinemas has been greatly altered from the ending that made it into the movie.

Darth Vader Introduction

Darth Vader is an old-school Star Wars character who gets one of the best scenes in the movie, when he ignites his lightsaber to take out a squadron of Rebel soldiers. But guess what? He’s really not in the movie that much. Perhaps he gets a total of seven minutes screen time at most in this two hour and 15 mins adventure. But he makes the most of it. Thing is, there is definitely some Darth Vader footage that didn’t make it into the final cut of the movie. Most notably, the first official image released of Darth Vader, which shows him standing with his back to the audience, in front of a red radar screen. It is nowhere to be found in the finished product. It’s being speculated that the Darth Vader in the original cut, before the reshoots, was much more like the Darth Vader we know and love in A New Hope. That means he was slow, a little boring, and choked people by their throats. He still gets to show off his signature choke hold in Rogue One, but the reshoots have turned him into a monster.

Darth Vader Confronts Krennic

Another missing Darth Vader scene has Krennic confronting Darth Vader about the power of the Death Star, which is there in the second trailer that was released. This footage, which appears to be taking place on either the Death Star itself, or on the Imperial base of Scarif, has been cut. Instead, Krennic and Darth Vader get their big moment together in Darth Vader’s home on what looks to be the volcanic planet Mustafar, where Anakin Skywalker had his showdown with Obi-Wan Kenobi and lost his limbs. Apparently he’s returned to Mustafar, where he likes to take energy-revitalizing Bacta baths.

Jyn Goes Solo in the Imperial Silo

Along with the Tie Fighter scene, there is another moment that was  featured pretty extensively in the first trailer that is now missing. It has Jyn Erso in her Imperial ground crew costume, standing in a hallway that is lit. It has been featured heavily in the marketing leading up to the movie. While Jyn still appears in this costume in the final film, she is never seen alone in a moment like this one, staying close to Cassian throughout the entirety of the third act.

K-2SO Escapes the Imperial Base

That previous shot leads directly into another shot, which was also cut out of the big final climax. As we can see in this scene, quite a lot has changed. For one, K-2SO is still with Cassian and Jyn as they make their way through a scene shot at Canary Wharf Tube station in London’s Docklands. Jyn clearly has the stolen Death Star plans in her hands as the trio escapes. In the finished movie, the trio never make it this far, nor this intact. If you have seen the movie, you will know that two of these characters take quite a beating before the plans ever get into their hands. And one of them doesn’t even survive to see the plans get stolen.

Jyn and Cassian Escape with the Death Star Plans

The previous deleted scene leads directly into another shot where Cassian and Jyn are seen running on the beaches of Scarif as explosions go off all around them. Again, the plans are clearly seen in Jyn Ero’s hands here. They have escaped from the Imperial Station and running hard while being attacked from all sides. The end of the movie is clearly very different than what happened before all the reshoots, and these moments, especially this one taken from the Celebration sizzle reel, give us an idea about how this all played out.

Krennic and his Cape on Scarif

One of the most visually impressive shots in the first trailer has Ben Medelsohn’s Director Krennic coming ashore as he wades through the tide on Scarif. Dead stormtrooper bodies lay littered around him. He struts and strides, with his flowing white cape flowing behind him. This scene is gone. And instead, we get a capeless Krennic facing off against Cassian and Jyn on the bridge of the Imperial station.

The Stormtroopers wade through the Waters of Scarif

There has been one shot doing the rounds of the Stormtroopers wading through the tropical blue waters of Scarif that wasn’t in the movie, either. Though, we’re not sure if this is just a publicity photo, or if this was from a scene that was actually shot for the movie. It appears that much of the beach raid has been removed from the final cut, and these stunning shots featuring the stormtroopers wound up on the cutting room floor. Even though they are gone, they have been used a great deal in the poster campaign.

More Saw Gerrera Footage

This brings us to earlier in the movie. A lot has been made about Forest Whitaker’s Rebel insurgent Saw Gerrera, who gets an ample amount of screen time. But before this Clone Wars holdover appears later on in the movie with his crazy grey Doc Brown hairdo, he looks bald, briefly, in the prologue that introduces the Erso family. In the trailer, we hear him ask, ‘What will you do if they catch you?’ That speech is now gone, and it appears that he had much more to do in the beginning of the movie than we actually get to see.

Rebel Prisoners on Jedha

Another striking image that was totally cut out of the movie has a couple of Rebel X-Wing pilots being walked in a single file line by Imperial troops as prisoners through the busy streets of Jedha. While there are certainly prisons and rebels in the movie, this scene isn’t anywhere to be seen.

Jyn Rebels on Yavin 4

There is also a scene with Jyn handcuffed on Yavin 4, where her ‘I Rebel…” line resonated in the first trailer, introducing her as a true maverick character. It is speculated that a great deal of the Yavin 4 scenes that introduce Jyn to Cassian were a major feature of the reshoots.

Jyn Meets K-2SO for the First Time

That leads us to the final shot in the trailer that is missing. And it features K-2SO meeting Jyn for the very first time. This suggests that Jyn didn’t meet K-2SO until much later in the movie, which indicates that a great deal of the beginning of the movie was reshot along with the ending. We’re guessing that there is even more footage lying around the cutting room floor that fans will probably never see. Some of it may wind up on the Blu-ray when it arrives, but we have a feeling a lot of this stuff is going to be locked away in a vault, saved for the 20th anniversary re-release.

View post on imgur.com

http://movieweb.com/rogue-one-scenes-shots-missing-trailer/?page=4