Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Educating Rita (1983) | A mighty messy Star Wars production
Film Stories
Wednesday, 28 January 2026 - 1 hour 15 minutes
Two very different films in this latest episode of film history podcast Film Stories. Firstly, it's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an infamously difficult production that saw director Gareth Edwards fashion a war tale in the Star Wars universe - and then reshoots become Hollywood trade press fodder.
Coming off the back of two James Bond films meanwhile, director Lewis Gilbert reckoned he might be able to get interest in a film take on hit play Educating Rita back in the early 1980s. He got a short, sharp shock - but a dinner party offered him a very welcome stroke a luck.
Stories of both films are told in this episode. Please do the like and subscribe and leaving a nice review thing. Thank you!
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