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Heat Vision and Deadline have both incorporated more detail into the original NY Post report. Both confirm that yes, the four weeks of re-shoots are definitely happening but there was no 'test screening' as the original report suggested. The film WAS screened for the studio though.
Their source says:
"The move is happening after execs screened the movie and felt it was tonally off with what a 'classic' Star Wars movie should feel like. The goal of the re-shoots will be to lighten the mood, bring some levity into the story and restore a sense of fun to the adventure".
"This takes place just before A New Hope and leads up to the ten minutes before that classic films begins. You have to match the tone... while [director Gareth] Edwards' first cut was a solid showing, it didn't measure up to the bar set in terms of four-quadrant appeal. Anything less than extraordinary won't do."
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I'm not so sure about "lightening the mood", as this film was expected to be dark and gritty.
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