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En 2016 Vanity Fair artikeln diskuterar grunden till Rogue One s berättelse och ger några allvarliga tvivel om denna teori:
John Knoll, Industrial Light & Magiska verkställande som först slog in berättelsen som skulle bli Rogue One , kom fram till idéen för berättelsen under produktionen på Revenge of the Sith när den avbrutna live-action-serien Star Wars: Underworld var fortfarande på bordet:
It was around that time, while in Sydney working on what everybody believed would be the final film in the franchise, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, that Knoll first heard that story development had begun on a Star Wars live-action television series.
"I thought, Oh, that's an interesting idea. I started thinking about what might be fun stories to tell in the Star Wars universe that might make a good one-hour episode."
One of Knoll's immediate thoughts was related to the opening crawl of A New Hope—the screen-filling, scene-setting prologue text that rolled diagonally upward into the cosmos at the start of the film.
...Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR....
Knoll hade Jyn Erso karaktär i åtanke från början (betoning min):
"I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels," he says. "They got to be big Star Wars fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters and I just thought: Star Wars could use more good strong female leads. I wrote Jyn in as the protagonist from the very beginning. It felt right for the story."
Som Pablo Hidalgo bekräftade på Twitter strax efter den här artikeln publicerades, kom även namnet "Jyn Erso" från Knoll :
@Burzol Pablo, but that name, Jyn Erso, also came from John Knoll?
@pablohidalgo Yep.
I en intervju med 2017 med Yahoo! Filmer, Knoll diskuterar var namnet "Jyn Erso" kom ifrån; Tydligen kom hennes förnamn från flera damer i hans familj:
When it came to naming her, Knoll didn’t have to look far for inspiration. "My youngest daughter is Jane, and my wife is Jen, so [Jyn] is sort of mashup of them. And growing up my aunt was Aunt Ginny, [short] for Virginia, so there's a little bit of that, too. It’s a mix up of a lot of my favorite women in my life."
Som artikeln anger, och som Hidalgo bekräftar på Twitter tidigare i den tråden jag länkade till tidigare), gjorde Knoll inte Jag känner inte till Dark Forces när han skrev behandlingen; Han lärde sig om det från Hidalgo efter att han lagt upp konceptet som en film i 2013:
Knoll reached out to Lucasfilm's Story Group, the anointed story-development executives who manage and defend the Star Wars canon. Story Group executive Pablo Hidalgo — a founding member of the Star Wars Fanboy Association who now worked for Lucasfilm — informed Knoll that, actually, the theft of the Death Star plans had been covered a couple of times already: a 1981 NPR radio drama and a 1995 first-person shooter computer game, Star Wars: Dark Forces.
Med tanke på alla dessa saker verkar det ovanligt osannolikt att Jyn modellerades på antingen Katarn eller Jan Ors.