9 years after the Star Wars prequel hit theaters, director Gareth Edwards reflects on Rogue One's legacy in the wake of Andor season 2: "I'm just eternally relieved that I don't walk across the street and people shout that I ruined their childhood"

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Exclusive: Rogue One director Gareth Edwards reflects on the movie almost a decade after its release – and what The Thing taught him about his career

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Director Gareth Edwards may be tackling on-screen dinosaurs for the first time with Jurassic World Rebirth, but he's no stranger to legacy franchises.

He also directed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which is having somewhat of a renaissance thanks to Disney Plus prequel series Andor. The TV show, which recently came to an end with Andor season 2, fills in the backstory of Diego Luna's rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor and, according to cast members and fans alike, helps view the movie in a new light.

"I've always felt – and I don't hold any of my films in high regard like this – but I do think that, really, the test of a movie is how it's viewed, 10, 20 years later," he continues. "Obviously, there's this anticipation with what everyone's going to think when a film comes out. But really, you would always take the... I look at a lot of my heroes, and they would tell stories, and it seems unbelievable, like I was reading the other day about John Carpenter and The Thing, and how it flopped, and how he couldn't work for a while, and things like this.

Emily Garbutt
Entertainment Writer

I’m an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering everything film and TV-related across the Total Film and SFX sections. I help bring you all the latest news and also the occasional feature too. I’ve previously written for publications like HuffPost and i-D after getting my NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism. 

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