Star Wars: Rogue One Swaps Out One Oscar-Winning Composer For Another

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Oscar-winning film composer Alexandre Desplat, who is best known for creating music for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Argo, The Imitation Game, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox, as well as the Twilight and Harry Potter franchises, is no longer scoring Disney's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Don't fret. Disney and Lucasfilm have already replaced him with Michael Giacchino, the Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy winning composer best known for scoring Up, Ratatouille, Zootopia, Jurassic World, The Incredibles, J.J. Abrams's Star Trek films, and Marvel's Doctor Strange.

According to sources for THR, the Rogue One reshoots led to the scoring calendar being pushed back, creating a scheduling conflict for Desplat, and that is the only reason behind the change of composers.

From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel are producing, with John Knoll and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in U.S. theaters on December 16, 2016.