IN A RECENT INTERVIEW, HAS DIRECTOR GARETH EDWARDS LET SLIP, THAT VADER ISN'T GOING TO BE THE ONLY ONE RETURNING IN DECEMBER'S 'ROGUE ONE : STAR WARS STORY?‘
The British director may have revealed some interesting details of a surprising return in an
interview with USA Today, while discussing the film’s main antagonist,
Orson Krennic. He revealed that Krennic, the head of Empire’s advanced weapons research wing, played by actor
Ben Mendelsohn, will it seems, clash with the upper echelon’s of
the Galactic Empire. “It feels like if the Empire ever have a job vacancy, they go to the Royal Shakespeare Company to headhunt people,” Edwards joked.
He’s is of course,referring to the upper-class authority of actors such as, our very own Peter
Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in the original movie.
WHEN EDWARDS WAS ASKED, whether he wanted Mendelsohn to adopt a similarly posh accent,
Edwards said: “I like the idea that Ben’s character was much more
working-class,” adding that he ascended through the Imperial hierarchy
“through sheer force of personality and ideas.”
IT WAS THEN that Edwards potentially, reveals the return of a younger Grand Moff Tarkin . . . .“[Krennic] hits a brick wall in the hierarchy, where they won’t let him
in the club and it’s going to turn into a them-or-us situation: either
Krennic or Tarkin and the others,“ Edwards says.
REPORTS DATING BACK TO August last year have suggested Tarkin’s return,
but no official word has come from the filmmakers or the film’s
marketing. Some believe the figure seen from behind in 'Rogue One’s
trailer (below) could be Tarkin. The hair and head shape certainly
appear to be a match, if it were to be a younger Tarkin, maybe . . . A Mail Online UK newspaper feature back last year, reported that the Cushing - who sadly passed in 1994 - would be brought back to life digitally.
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