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10 Easter Eggs From Rogue One: A Star Wars Story You May Have Missed

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has proved to be a huge treat for devotees of the galaxy far, far away, as it contains a whole spaceship-full of fan service, both obvious and slight. We have known for a long time that it would revolve around the original Death Star and feature Darth Vader in a supporting role, but fans weren't expecting it to be quite so much of an easter egg fest.
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Published: Dec 21, 2016 05:12 pm

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2) A New Hope Unused Footage

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During the triumphant final act of Rogue One, the band of renegades are helped out by the Rebel Alliance fleet in all its glory. To complete the harking back to A New Hope, deleted footage from that movie is spliced in. Most notably, two characters from the original movie, Gold Leader and Red Leader (as played by Drew Henley and Angus McInnes), are among the fleet.

Another easily-missed connection between the two movies is the callsign Red Five. One pilot going under the sign was killed in the battle over Scarif. This then leaves the callsign vacant, ready for Luke to take it up when he joins the Rebels in A New Hope. 

Similarly, Rogue One reaffirms that women are among the Rebel pilots. There were originally three female pilots in A New Hope but all were edited out of the final cut. One of Rogue One’s female pilots is voiced by Star Wars Rebels actress Vanessa Marshall.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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