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2. Lord And Miller Were Almost In Rogue One

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I talked in the Rogue One piece about the cross-film cameos of Rian Johnson and Gareth Edwards in Rogue One and Episode VIII respectively, and in that same conversation Lord and Miller revealed they too almost appeared in the former. Almost.

They were set to play a pair of mercs in the Jedda sequences (and looked f*cking fly, I may add), but because Miller had to rush off to sort out a school for his son (his whole family's moving to England for the shoot) they had to back out.

The joke's really on Lord though; Miller was already in Star Wars; he played a Stormtrooper in The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition for the quick shot as Vader walks towards his shuttle after the fight with Luke. As they said at the panel, there's always Episode IX.

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