To me, that’s the most important moment because it’s all about the future, about this aspiration of wanting to do something better with your life. I then turned 30 and for my birthday went to Tunisia, where they shot the location of my favourite scenes from Star Wars: where Luke looks off towards the setting suns. So I bought a computer and got sidetracked for 10 years learning visual effects and animation. But my flatmate at university happened to be studying this new thing called computer animation and it was clearly going to be the future of filmmaking. It seemed like such an Impossible thing to break into. I grew up and went to film school and made a lot of short films but ultimately couldn’t get a job directing anything. At some point, however, I started to realise that perhaps I’m not going to be able to join the Rebel Alliance and destroy the Death Star, and in fact this whole thing was some form of lie called a “film.” So the second best option was, well, maybe I become a liar too and make films instead. It really made me excited about growing up and wondering at all the things I could do. Thought, this is what the world can be I can become Luke Skywalker and live in an incredible world of exciting possibilities. “OF ALL THE STAR WARS MOVIES …BEING CONSIDERED FOR PRODUCTION, THIS ONE, ROGUE ONE, FELT THE MOST PERSONAL TO ME” Then the next morning I would rewind the tape and watch the opening again and again each day, learning the first act by heart. I would get through about the first 15 minutes until l was forced to get ready. So each morning before school I would sit in my pyjamas with some cereal and just hit play on that tape. With the tape in hand, I returned home to play it and got as far as the scene of C-3PO walking down the corridor in the blockade runner before my mum shouted at me for dinner I remember stopping the tape and eating as fast as I could and, at that moment, knowing what I wanted to do for the rest of my life … I was going to watch this film over and over until the day I died. Knowing my neighbour had a tape of Star Wars, I immediately ran next door and I asked if I could borrow it. My first real memory of seeing the film was on videotape, I think just after my parents bought a Betamax player. Being so young, I don’t really remember the world before it. I WAS JUST 2 YEARS OLD WHEN STAR WARS, A New Hope came out in the cinema. That youthful obsession led him straight to the director’s chair on Rogue One. As a kid growing up in Britain, Gareth Edwards watched A New Hope every single day. This is the forward by Gareth Edwards in The Ultimate Guide to Rogue One by Entertainment Weekly, and he is you’ll agree ‘after you read this’ the ultimate Star Wars fanboy.
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