Via Ew.com:

The goal was to make the space battles in Rogue One feel like roller coasters, so director Gareth Edwards came up with a unique way to shoot them:

Literally turn them into an amusement park ride.

“When we were filming the X-wing footage in the film, we had the X-wing [cockpit] mounted to a gimbal so it could move around, like it was really flying,” Edwards says. “Then all around were the screens, in 180 degrees, that were projecting space and this pre-animated flight path as the X-wing was moving around, like it was really flying.”

The first Star Wars standalone movie comes out in just over a week, with a lot of talk about the Godzilla filmmaker’s visceral, handheld approach to showing the soldier’s perspective of galactic conflict.

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