There is an enduring mystery surrounding Rogue One: What happened to the crew of the Hammerhead starship?

They’re the ones (spoiler warning) who crash their vessel into a crippled Star Destroyer, ramming it into another Imperial battleship and using both to shatter the shield gate protecting the Empire’s research facility on Scarif.

Without the action of this Hammerhead Corvette, Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor would not have been able to transmit the Death Star plans to the Rebel fleet. And although there was no shortage of sacrifice in this battle, fans have been wondering if the crew of the Hammerhead was definitely among the casualties.

It turns out, the filmmakers debated about this, too. And the question has an answer…

Rogue One executive producer and Industrial Light and Magic visual effects supervisor John Knoll tells EW: “There was some talk about, ‘Hey, is this a suicide mission? Are all these guys going down with the Star Destroyers?’ I started pushing for this idea that maybe in one of the shots we could have all these lifeboats, the escape pods, shoot out of it.”

Picture this: As the mid-sized Rebel starship smashes the two Imperial goliaths together, driving them toward the planet below, a plume of small objects erupt from its undercarriage.

“We did an animation of that, but Gareth [Edwards, the director] thought it was a little distracting, so we turned that off,” Knoll says.

But the VFX team kept fighting for the lives of those Rebels, using some of the cutaway shots to justify an unseen escape.

“The last shot you see of the Star Destroyers crashing down through the gate — it’s a very subtle thing, and it would probably be hard to tell this – but the lifeboats are all gone on the Hammerhead,” Knoll tells EW. “It’s my story that the Hammerhead crew got into the life boats and made it out.”

So, the Hammerhead crew lives! … Sort of.

As fans know from the original 1977 Star Wars, these pods can’t really do much more than plummet.

“Our story was that they made it down to the surface of Scarif, and were standing around the beach going, ‘You know what, it isn’t so bad here!” Knoll says.

Then, as the Death Star fires up its laser … “’Hey, what’s that bright thing on the horizon?’”

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“Our story was that they made it down to the surface of Scarif, and were standing around the beach going, ‘You know what, it isn’t so bad here!” Knoll says.

Then, as the Death Star fires up its laser … “’Hey, what’s that bright thing on the horizon?’”

Quelle: http://ew.com/...head-crew/

Hihi, in den Kommentaren unter dem Bild sind ein paar die in diesem Teil an der Konsole Jar Jar Binks' Kopf sehen. Ein Glück, ich dachte schon ich wäre der einzige.

Boah, die Moderatoren auf diesen Cons stehen irgendwie alle unter Aufputschmitteln, oder?

Na, immerhin wahre Worte. Wobei ich dem Ehrenreich lassen muss, dass der wirklich ein bisschen wie der junge Ford aussieht. Da revidiere ich meine Meinung zum Casting. Allerdings weiß ich echt nicht, was ich von dem Streifen erwarten soll...

Jetzt sind die beiden Regisseure, Phil Lord und Chris Miller, wegen "kreativer Differenzen" mit Lucasfilm-Chefin Kathleen Kennedy und Autor Lawrence Kasdan aus der Produktion ausgestiegen.

Last night, Mike Sampson, former editor-in-chief of ScreenCrush, tweeted out what he had heard. According to Sampson, Kennedy felt that the movie wasn’t Star Wars-y enough, so she wanted to bring in a director to do reshoots like she did on Rogue One. Whereas Rogue One helmer Gareth Edwards was willing to allow Tony Gilroy to handle reshoots, Lord and Miller refused letting another director come in to retool their movie. While apparently “everyone” loved what Lord and Miller were trying to do, it didn’t fit with a risk-averse studio’s vision, and because Lord and Miller stuck to their guns, they were let go.

Additionally, Lord and Miller also clashed with co-writer and executive producer Lawrence Kasdan, which THR reports as well. A source tells THR that Lord and Miller’s view of Han Solo clashed with what Kasdan wanted: “People need to understand that Han Solo is not a comedic personality. He’s sarcastic and selfish,” said that source. Kennedy, who had worked with Kasdan for decades, backed her longtime colleague over the directors.

Also, it’s not Lord and Miller are neophytes, and their working style would be fairly well known by this point, so why did Kennedy expect them to change? Additionally, when Lord and Miller pitched their view on Han Solo, wouldn’t have Kasdan known at the outset that’s not the direction they wanted to take the character?