Rogue One Director 'Very Happy to Move On,' from Star Wars as Jurassic World: Rebirth Launch Nears

Gareth Edwards, manager of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has said he's "very blessed to determination on" alternatively than instrumentality to a postulation far, acold away.

Rogue One received mostly affirmative reviews erstwhile it launched successful December 2016, portion spin-off Disney+ bid Andor has go 1 of the franchise's astir critically-acclaimed projects ever.

Still, Edwards, whose adjacent task Jurassic World: Rebirth launches connected July 2, has said helium is improbable to ever instrumentality to nonstop different Star Wars project. "I'm precise blessed to determination connected and bash my thing," Edwards told Business Insider.

"It's the happening that was successful my beingness earlier I knew what a movie was," Edwards said, suggesting helium inactive held a fondness for the Star Wars bid successful general. "It's similar your mom; it's similar thing that's a portion of you. I'm ever fascinated by what they're doing. I ne'er halt loving that trilogy."

Despite Rogue One's reception, accumulation connected the movie — arsenic with chap Star Wars spin-off Solo — experienced a fewer bumps on the way. Indeed, Rogue One required 5 weeks of reshoots aft main filming wrapped, with further communicative and a tweaked ending added by Tony Gilroy, who besides joined the task arsenic a second-unit director. (Gilroy, of course, besides past went connected to make Andor.)

"I'm precise grateful that radical accidental bully things," Edwards said of Rogue One's wide reception among audiences now. Does helium concur that the movie is the champion Star Wars task nether Disney's ownership? "I don't hold with it, but I admit it," helium noted.

Keen to spot what Edwards is up to now? Well, the latest Jurassic World: Rebirth trailer involves a prickly country with a Spinosaurus that's good worthy a ticker — though it astir apt besides deserves a spoiler warning.

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