This whole thing is setting off so many b.s. alarms... this is how the Hollywood rumor mill works. Take a few "half public truths" and weave in a false narrative to make a compelling tale. This guy is probably just some loser with his own youtube channel at best, at worst he's some troll from a competing studio.
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Yes they did. Disney had a test screening to help gauge public reaction to the film. The audience hated the film and ordered massive reshoots. They replaced Gareth Edwards with Tony Gilroy on the set. Edwards was ordered to step aside and Gilroy took control of the entire set. He also did the rewrites, which he is credited with, and did editing as well. That's a whole lot of responsibility to one guy. It seems that Edwards screwed up so bad that he was kicked off his own film and that he'll probably never get to direct another big budget film again. He must've screwed pretty bad from what I hear. What I know of the reshoots, the original Edwards version was too dark and violent. No real character and too boring. Think Godzilla, but worse.
They tried to lighten the film up and make it more appealing to more people and they changed how characters behaved, like what they did with Jyn Erso. They redid a lot of her scenes and she's essentially a different character this time around. It seems that a lot of the negative reactions from the test audience was directed at Jyn. Felicity Jones was a big reason for the reshoots. She has been a huge weak link in this mess and it's unfair that Gareth Edwards has had so much thrown at him. I know he's the director, but it's Felicity Jones that's carrying the film. It's her performance that will make or break the film now and that Disney has gone out of their way to do damage control for her and not place blame on her. It's not fair. Edwards' career in Hollywood is pretty gone right now and he'll never be a big director that he hoped, but the star of the film can go unscathed, when it was her that helped prompt the reshoots in the first place, and should not get away from all this unscathed career wise.
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Yeah it was. It must've been terrible for the reaction Disney made. They went into full panic mode after the test screening. Disney denies it ever had a test audience see it, and put out damage control PR pieces out, but they did have one. They had to immediately recall actors from all over the world, and they were working on other projects at the time, to come back and redo the movie. They also replace the composer for the film too, it was Alexandre Desplat and then dumped him for Michael Giancchino.
On the reshoots, they tried to get Christopher McQuarrie to come by and help with writing and directing, but he seemed to just walk away from it all. They also considered getting JJ Abrams too but decided not to. So it all was leveled at Tony Gilroy's feet, and he took over a lot of the work on the film, pushing Gareth Edwards out completely. Edwards became angry at everyone for how he was treated and vowed to never talk to the actors again.
I can't blame him too much since they never had a good script to work with and the production suffered because of it. The lead they picked, Felicity Jones, hasn't been much help. She is the weakest link in the whole mess, and has never had much leveled at her, at least not publicly. Going by the trailers thus far, she comes across as so wooden, and robotic that she seems to come across as a machine. She's delivering her lines, but there is nothing behind those words she's saying. It's flat as a board.
I have problems with Edwards, but he's suffered the most out of all this and his career is very much in doubt in Hollywood. The studios will probably not want to trust another big budget movie to him again. Not too much his fault. The blame needs to spread out more. It's been the writers, and the actors, namely Felicity. I don't think it's fair that so much has been thrown at him and not the others. They'll continue to get work, the accolades, awards, the money and such, but he'll take the heat for some time to come. That isn't right.
