Rogue One' Writer Tony Gilroy to Make Millions Off Reshoots. Rogue One might be about a group of rebels absconding with plans for the Death Star, but they aren't the only ones making out like bandits. Tony Gilroy, who was brought in to rewrite and help oversee reshoots for the Gareth Edwards- directed Star Wars film, out Dec. Gilroy, writer of several Bourne movies and director of best picture Oscar nominee Michael Clayton, first was brought in to help write dialogue and scenes for Rogue’s reshoots and was being paid $2. That figure is fairly normal for a top- tier writer on a big- budget studio film. But as the workload (and the reshoots) expanded, so did Gilroy's time and paycheck. Gilroy started on Rogue One in June, and by August, he was taking a leading role with Edwards in postproduction, which lasted well into the fall.
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The reshoots are said to have tackled several issues in the film, including the ending. Rogue One, the first "stand- alone" Star Wars movie to deviate from the seven Episodes released from 1. A New Hope. Separate stand- alone films are planned in alternating years from Episodes, with a Han Solo movie scheduled for 2.
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Episode VIII hits theaters next December. While the cost of extending Gilroy's work on Rogue One might seem on the high side, that price is a bargain to protect the integrity of the Star Wars brand. Watch A Grand Day Out Download Full. Disney paid $4 billion in 2.
Star Wars creator George Lucas' Lucasfilm and its first film after the deal, the JJ Abrams- directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens, made more than $2 billion and jump- started a whole new generation of Star Wars fans. Disney and Gilroy’s CAA reps declined to comment. A version of this story first appeared in the Dec. The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt's Sci- Fi 'Passengers' Nears Green Light After Sony Behind- the- Scenes Drama. Watch Two Lovers And A Bear Online Metacritic. Hollywood’s two hottest stars are teaming for a new movie set in outer space — but only after quite a bit of behind- the- scenes drama could have taken it out of Sony’s orbit. Sony Pictures’ new motion picture chairman Tom Rothman is going into prepreduction on Passengers, a big- budget romantic sci- fi drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt with Oscar nominee Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) set to direct.
And thanks to a deal that tied his remuneration to the success of Jurassic World, which broke box- office records with a $5. June 1. 2 weekend, Pratt’s fee has jumped from $1. Lawrence, an Oscar winner and considered a top star, is getting an exceptional $2.
Sony declined to comment. Whatever the famously fiscally prudent Rothman’s misgivings might have been about paying such big bucks to talent or risking $1. Hollywood for years, he now finds himself in possession of a two- hander star vehicle with the most in- demand male and female actors in the business. Passengers is set to begin filming in September so Sony has been under pressure to act. Sources say Rothman wrestled with whether to greenlight it, put it in turnaround or place it with Jeff Robinov’s nascent Studio 8, which is partly owned by Sony and will distribute its films through the studio but has outside financial backing.
Pratt's fee has jumped from $10 million to $12 million while Lawrence is getting an exceptional $20 million against 30 percent of the profit after the movie breaks. Rogue One, the first "stand-alone" Star Wars movie to deviate from the seven Episodes released from 1977 through 2015, is said to lead straight into the original A.
Passengers was awaiting his green light — rich deals in place — when he took the top job at Sony’s film studio in late February after Amy Pascal stepped down. In early June, Rothman made a pitch to Tyldum to trim the budget to $9. A source with knowledge of events says agreeing to a project at this budget “was a violation of the way [Rothman] likes to put together movies.”Producer Neal Moritz had other options: The project generated strong interest from Warner Bros.
Universal (the latter studio swooped in last year to grab Danny Boyle’s Jobs after Sony balked at the price tag). Rothman — who was heard wondering aloud during deliberations about the actual star power of Lawrence, 2. Pratt, 3. 5 — solicited input from Robinov, who is looking to assemble his own slate of films. After a June 5 meeting with Tyldum, Robinov is said to have immediately offered to take on the project — which one source says could be sold as “Gravity with romance” — at the full budget. Making the ready- to- go film would have allowed Studio 8 to release a high- profile project much faster than it would be able to do through the laborious development process.
Rothman, 6. 0, had told the filmmakers they could take the movie elsewhere if they chose, but when they chose the Studio 8 option, he is said to have changed his mind. Rothman is hedging his bet on Passengers: Sources say he has secured financing partners Village Roadshow and LStar to cover as much as 7. One source says Rothman found himself in a potential “lose- lose scenario” because he was caught between placing a big wager on untested material — and setting a pay precedent that might haunt him in his new role — and passing on a project with two of the biggest stars in Hollywood. He also could have sat on the project long enough that the stars would have had to move on to other commitments, which would have angered three talent agencies because Lawrence is with CAA, Pratt is at UTA and Tyldum is with WME. Passengers bounced from place to place before landing at Sony Pictures.
At one time, when it was a Weinstein Co. Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon, it was budgeted at a modest $3. Recently, Rachel Mc. Adams was attached to the project. Ironically, for a time the project was in negotiations for a deal at Warner Bros., where Robinov had been chairman of the film studio — with the budget capped at $6.
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