One of the biggest challenges for any director who is continuing one of the most successful movie franchises of all-time is staying true to the original but at the same time creating a unique style of their own. So when J.J. Abrams first did Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fans looked very closely at how he would both create an homage to the Star Wars films that preceded his, but also create an entire new “genre” of Star Wars film. It’s not an easy task and no matter what you do it’s met with criticism.
The same went for Gareth Edwards when he took his turn on Rogue One. Exactly how much would Edwards stick to maintaining continuity of original plots and not necessarily “copy?” Let’s find out: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was one of those rare in-between films that managed to fill in a blank in a massive cinematic universe and hold its own as a great movie. But after watching the film many fans wondered how the end of Rogue One would flow into the beginning of A New Hope, because that’s the continuity level we’ve come to expect from Star Wars.
Editor Barre Fong spliced the films together and discovered the transition is pretty darn clean considering it brings together two films released nearly forty years apart.
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