Star Wars' Rogue One screenwriter criticised EA

The network spread the news about the cancellation of another game in the Star Wars series last week, which was created from the developments of another failed project on the universe from the disbanded studio Visceral Games. While Electronic Arts soon released an evasive statement about its commitment to the franchise, Rogue One screenwriter Gary Witt was not afraid of harsh comments towards the American publisher.

The screenwriter for the Star Wars spin-off gave an interview to the Kinda Funny Youtube channel, in which he spoke about his attitude towards the cancellation of the EA Vancouver project and described the current situation with the game adaptations of the franchise in a very negative way:

“The deal was signed in 2013, it was a 10-year deal. We’re pretty much just over halfway through the deal at this point. … So let’s imagine I’m Bob Iger, I’m the head of Disney, and I call in the EA guys. … Let’s check in and see how you guys have been doing. … We put out two Battlefront games, one of which didn’t have a story at all, both of which were kind of mediocre, and one of which ended up being a major, major embarrassment because of the microtransaction fiasco. Not just to EA, but to Disney and the Star Wars brand. [...] You had a game that was a linear Uncharted type Star Wars experience game which was being developed by the writer of the Uncharted games and probably the best narrative designer in the business. It looked phenomenal. Cancelled that. Rolled all your assets into this new, bigger, more ambitious EA Vancouver open-world game. … Cancelled that. Okay, what else… nothing. That’s what we’ve done in five years.”

He also called using the Star Wars license "catastrophically mismanaged" and an “embarrassment.” Whitt hopes that at the expiration of the contract, the rights to use will not be renewed since this is not in the interests of either company. The full version of the interview can be found below: