The ending for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story might have been decidedly less bleak had the prequel’s film-makers opted to use the film’s original script.
Rogue One was the first of a proposed series of standalone Star Wars anthology films that will expand the franchise’s universe.
That said, even in the original script not everyone made it off Scarif, where the blueprints were held.
“The original instinct was that they should all die,” said Whitta “That’s what we always wanted to do.