Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Rogue One Deleted Scenes

Imperial Stormtroopers marching through the water of Scarif and Jyn and Cassian escaping the radar tower in Scarif with the plans to the Death Star in hand. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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The biggest news from the Rogue One Panel at the Star Wars Celebration Europe was the tropical poster.
“It does look incredible, though, those storm troopers wading through the most beautiful water,” said actress Gwendoline Christie, who plays Captain Phasma in Star Wars (and Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones), the panel’s emcee. “I think that’s what I found so arresting. It’s a new image for us.”

“My favorite one — because it meant we got to go to the Maldives — is a planet called Scarif,” explained director Gareth Edwards of the country comprised of a group of islands in the Indian Ocean. “We were going for realism throughout the film and we were trying to go to real locations. We had to go to paradise to film it and it was a nightmare.”

Edwards explained that members of the Maldives National Defence Force played stormtroopers in the shot below and were like “what?” when the crew told them they were going to play the iconic soldiers. They added that they felt fairly stupid dressed like that in the water.