Though, unlike Whitta’s rebel fighter pilot, Tudyk was going to be playing an Imperial pilot originally.
With the release of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in theaters over the past two years, the Star Wars universe has returned to the big screen in a way that it’s never been shown before.
Now, Whitta wasn’t the only one involved in Rogue One to shoot a cameo that was inevitably cut from the final version of the film.
Playing a character simply named Gray Leader, Whitta joked in one of his subsequent tweets that the character “died heroically on the cutting room floor.”