![]() ![]() Two competing and purely speculative narratives have taken root in fans’ mind over this development. ![]() Headlines with the words “crisis,” “bad,” and “panic” have ensued. ![]() Page Six reports that an early cut of the film isn’t testing well, and Disney has ordered four weeks of reshoots in July. Mon Mothma plays a major role for some reason.This prescient document about the 1977 space opera that did end up smashing box-office records comes to mind when reading about the recent rumors surrounding Rogue One, the Star Wars film scheduled for release in December 2016. Rogue One tells the story of a plucky band of upstarts who bring us the long awaited answer to one of the deepest mysteries in the Star Wars universe: what exactly was Jabba the Hutt’s toilet situation? As they seek out the answer to this disgusting riddle, they stumble across the plans to the Death Star and set in motion forty years of wildly disposable Star Wars parodies and tributes. This has led to a few odd choices, like the 2016 sequel to The Adventures of Milo and Otis, which critics called “tonally baffling” and “supposed to be about a puppy and kitten, why?” It’s worked out slightly better for The Force Awakens and Rogue One. This evidently changed in 2015 however, and now every movie must relate in some way to the construction or destruction of a Death Star. Lots of people were OK with this it meant we got movies like The Godfather, Point Break, and The Stoned Age. For years, most movies that came out were not about the Death Star. ![]()
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