"star wars: rogue one" was re-shot to add an anti-trump scene.
"star wars: rogue one" was re-shot to add an anti-trump scene.
did a ‘star wars’ film include an anti-trump scene?
on 8 december 2016, the boycott hashtag #dumpstarwars was widely circulated on social media. this hashtag trended for a number of reasons, including at least one rumor that an anti-trump scene had been added to the film star wars: rogue one


































this claim could be traced to jack posobiec, the self-described special projects director of “citizens for trump,” who generated the (completely false) rumor that the new star wars film was altered to add an anti-trump scene:








































































































posobiec either pulled this rumor out of thin air, or her misinterpreted two unconnected events: scheduled reshoots on the film and “controversial” tweets from two of the film’s writers.


































star wars: rogue one did undergo some reshoots not long before its official release. this additional last-minute work is common for a major studio film and had nothing to do with politics. director gareth edwards explained the reason in an interview with the los angeles times:


































we’d always planned to do a pickup shoot but we needed a lot of time to figure out all this material and get the best out of it. so that pushed the entire schedule in a big way. then disney saw the film and reacted really well and they said, “whatever you need, we’re going to support you.” our visual-effects shot count went from 600 to nearly 1,700, so suddenly we could do absolutely anything we wanted. to design 1,000 visual effects shots should take a year, so it was all hands to the pump and we never came up for air really until about a week ago.


































it would be beautiful if you write a story, you shoot exactly that, you edit it and it’s a hit. but art — or good art — doesn’t work like that. it’s a process, and you experiment and react and improve. and if i make more films, which i hope to, i want to make them like that as well, where it’s organic and it’s not predetermined.


































screenwriters for the film did make some political comments on their twitter feeds:





































































writers for the film also upset members of the “alt-right” when they said that the empire was a “white supremacist organization”  that was “opposed by a multicultural group led by brave women.”


































while the screenwriters’ statements on social media were offered as reasons for a star wars boycott, claims that the writers added a specific “anti-trump” message to the film during reshoots were completely unfounded. a representative for disney told the wrap that the rumor was completely untrue, and weitz called prosbiec out for spreading lies about the film:





































































when esquire reached out to posobiec, he admitted that he hadn’t even seen the film: “i haven’t seen the movie yet, but if the writers are so virulently anti-trump, i would be surprised to not find that bias embedded in the film.”


































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writers for the film "star wars: rogue one" posted tweets about donald trump, but claims that the movie was altered to add an anti-trump scene were unfounded.
the boycott hashtag #dumpstarwars was widely circulated on social media. this hashtag trended for a number of reasons, including at least one rumor that an anti-trump scene had been added to the film star wars: rogue one. the claim could be traced to jack posobiec, the self-described special projects director of “citizens for trump,” who generated the (completely false) rumor. a representative for disney told the wrap that the rumor was completely untrue.