Director Gareth Edwards talked about just how big of a role the film that started it all had on Rogue One.
A visit to Skywalker Ranch ahead of filming lead to discovering actual 35mm film from Star Wars: A New Hope. The footage provided the perfect opportunity to satisfy fans of the iconic franchise. Edwards describes the additional X-Wing scene as follows:
“We got the neg documents and found the clips from A New Hope that hadn’t been used. And there’s pilot photography and lines that were never featured in A New Hope. Through the magic of [Industrial Light & Magic], they cut round them and manipulated them and stuck them into our cockpits,” he said. It’s the sort of thing you think, ‘how many people will notice?’ Do you know what I mean? It’s like, is this a lot of effort for very little reward?”
Needless to say, the addition did not go unnoticed. Edwards saw the payoff during the film’s LA premiere when fans in the theater erupted at that sequence. “It was the only time during the premiere where I actually punched the air,” the director admits. Using old footage isn’t the only time Rogue One pulls in familiar elements of the Star Wars universe.
As if giving fans Darth Vader and the Deathstar weren’t enough, there has been quite a bit of chatter about including a 100 percent CGI version of Peter Cushing’s Tarkin character; a feat Edwards was nervous about from the beginning. While there was an actual stand-in (Guy Henry) and different voice actor (Stephen Stanton), Tarkin’s role in the significance of the Deathstar meant an appearance in Rogue One was too crucial to not be included.
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