This, combined with his innate volatility, makes him a very different kind of villain than we've seen.' He can change strategies in the middle of things. He also has the ability to stay on his feet even when punches are being hurled at him. James Luceno, author of the novel Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel which introduced Krennic, has said, 'Orson Krennic prides himself in being able to get his way through manipulation and whatever devilish things he can come up with. Krennic has a rivalry with Grand Moff Tarkin, and seeks to win the favor of Emperor Palpatine. The character of Orson Krennic is depicted as a power-hungry and ruthless Imperial weapons developer overseeing the construction of the Death Star, a space station with the capability to destroy an entire planet. Mendelsohn said in an interview he learned about his casting while filming Bloodline, having dinner in a restaurant with director Gareth Edwards, 'He told me about the story and he told me about the character and then he said, 'I want you to do it.'' Mendelsohn noted his response was immediate.

In March 2015, it was announced that Ben Mendelsohn had been cast in a lead role in Rogue One. The scene was cut as writers had trouble justifying why Krennic would have survived the explosion the Death Star caused.

Earlier planned endings for the film featured Krennic surviving the events on Scarif before being killed by Darth Vader for not preventing the theft of the plans to the Death Star. However, this was changed when Gary Whitta came aboard to write the script. In Knoll's original story draft of the film, Krennic was a double agent on Jyn Erso's team reporting to the Imperial Security Bureau. Hearing about the development of a live-action Star Wars television series, he conceived a story, inspired by a plot point mentioned in the opening crawl of the original 1977 film Star Wars, which would eventually become Rogue One. Industrial Light & Magic chief creative officer John Knoll, credited for the story of Rogue One, told Vanity Fair in 2016 that he conceived the plot of the film while working as a visual effects supervisor on the 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Krennic is the Director of Advanced Weapons Research for the Galactic Empire, and was introduced in the 2016 prequel novel Catalyst by James Luceno. Director Orson Callan Krennic is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn in the 2016 film Rogue One as the main antagonist.

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