MOVIE NEWS – Some days ago, we heard rumors about Disney‘s first Star Wars spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, with many people claiming that the studio isn’t pleased with the movie and that they obliged director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) to undergo four weeks of extensive reshoots this summer.

Those reshoots were indeed confirmed later that day, although the rumor that reshoots were caused by negative test screening feedback were proved false. Now we have more details about the reshoots, with writer Tony Gilroy, well-known for writing the original Bourne trilogy, has come aboard to fine-tune the script.

Tony Gilroy will also be present on the set when reshoots begin, serving as a second unit director under Gareth Edwards. Both filmmakers have also worked together in the past, with Gilroy providing uncredited rewrites on his 2014 blockbuster Godzilla.

“The changes have everything to do with clarity and character development and all take place [as inserts] within scenes we’ve already shot,” told Gilroy to the press.

A source also revealed that the reshoots will focus on more intimate moments, and not remaking entire battle sequences, claiming, “It’s a lot of talking in cockpits.” The reshoots will span between four to five weeks, starting later this month and wrap up in mid-July, just days before Star Wars Celebration will take place in London on July 15.

The reshoots will involve several different actors, and one of the challenges has been to get them together after the reshoots shifted from spring to summer. While we still don’t know who will be present, the cast includes Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso, who leads a team of Rebel soldiers played by Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Alan Tudyk (playing a droid in performance capture), Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker and Wen Jiang. It also isn’t known if Ben Mendelsohn, who plays an Imperial officer, and Mads Mikkelsen, rumored to be playing Jyn’s father, will be back for reshoots.

“It is a complicated schedule trying to pull people in around other things they’re doing. And this cast is spread out all over the world,” told another source had to say about the challenges involved in scheduling.

This source also added that the rumors about Disney wanting the movie more “family-friendly” are false.

“At this point, only two people outside of Lucasfilm have seen the movie, Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Horn. It didn’t feel like the Disney executives were “meddling” with the film,” the source added.

One source said that, adding that “people will go insane” when new footage is showcased at Star Wars Celebration in July, just after reshoots are completed. Here’s what another source had to say about the reshoot process.

“I can’t think of anything in the world of creativity [that isn’t changed or reworked]. You need to do that when making these movies.”

The events of Rogue One are set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and will be a departure from the saga films but have elements that are familiar to the Star Wars universe. It goes into new territory, exploring the galactic struggle from a ground-war perspective while maintaining that essential Star Wars feel that fans have come to know. We’ll be sure to keep you posted with more details on Rogue One.