ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Writer Reveals How The Famous Darth Vader Scene Differs From His Original Pitch
It's been some time since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hit theaters, but we still continue to learn about its production, and now we have new details on how the final Darth Vader scene almost played out.
It’s well documented that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story underwent extensive reshoots that removed or added a number of scenes to the final cut of the film, including the much-discussed Darth Vader sequence. But even that pulse-pounding moment could have looked quite different.
While speaking to Cinema Blend, one of the film’s writers, Garry Whitta, briefly discussed the version of the Darth Vader scene that he pitched. The overall concept sounds very similar to what we ultimately got, but it did have one key difference.
“The version I pitched (but never wrote) had Vader on the Scarif beach single-handedly slaughtering his way through a Rebel blockade at the base of the Imperial tower.” Whitta explained before praising what we saw in theaters. “The version in the Raddus hallway works much better because it's so contained, feels more horror than action.”
Again, it’s not a radically different take on the famous moment, but it’s hard to imagine that it would have topped the final version, which received almost universal praise from fans and critics.
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