Join Amazon Prime – Watch Thousands of Movies & TV Shows Anytime – Start Free Trial NowĪfter Rogue One‘s credits rolled, your humble writer scrambled back home and put on the A New Hope Blu-ray, just to see how the experience of watching it would be colored by the intensity of Edwards’ war movie. To the din of screams and blaster fire, the Blockade Runner scrambles away from Lord Vader’s Star Destroyer, and Rogue One ends with the plans being handed to a CGI Princess Leia (for brevity, we won’t go into her glassy-eyed countenance again here). The rumor persisted for months that Rogue One would end approximately 10 minutes before Episode IV begins, and so it happened: we see Rebel soldiers frantically scramble to get the disc containing the Death Star plans onto the Tantive IV as Darth Vader cuts through their ranks. First, and most obviously, there’s the way Rogue One‘s violent coda dovetails with A New Hope.