Star Wars Rogue One: The secret link of the movie with Episode IV

Among all the winks made to the saga, Star Wars: Rogue One establishes a secret link with A New Hope that you may not have spotted. Warning spoilers, obviously.
If you are fans of Star Wars and that you went to see Snape One cinema, you necessarily like us: to drive the winks and easter eggs made to the rest of the saga. And you have found full necessarily, whether the – SPOILER careful – ” I have a bad feeling ” K-2 SO or the presence of some well known faces from previous episodes. Because, yes, although Gareth Edwards admitted he eased off in terms of references, Rogue One abounds still winks seven guns episodes of the franchise, and even the animated series Star Wars: Rebels . But as exercised as your eyes are and as observant as you are, there is necessarily an element that escaped you. Yet it establishes a secret link between Star Wars: Rogue One and A New Hope, which are already connected in many ways. However, it is not because you lack training that you missed this reference. In reality, it’s because … some images featuring secondary characters of Star Wars: Rogue One comes directly from what was shot in 1977 for A New Hope !
Before continuing, we would like to warn you that the sequel contains some minor spoilers, so if you have not seen the movie, we can not advise you too much. As for those who have gone to see him , they will recall the battle that takes place in space above Scarif led by Admiral Raddus, replacing Ackbar in Star Wars: Rogue One , while squads The Rebel Alliance are trying to destroy the shield that surrounds the planet. If the faces of the leaders of the Red and Gold squadrons seemed familiar to you, it is because there is a good reason. For imagine that the images in which they appear were filmed in 1977 to be integrated in the Battle of Yavin, but were never used . At least until now!
In an interview with the Radio Times website, Gareth Edwards has indeed admitted having found these unused sequences during his visit to Skywalker Ranch, where the offices are located Lucasfilm . ” We went to Skywalker Ranch where they keep their archives. And while we were doing a lot of cool stuff, like watching the Millennium Falcon, try the jacket Han Solo and all this stuff we saw at the bottom of the Reels of the movies.We asked what it was and we were told, ‘Oh, it’s Star Wars.’ And then they ask, ‘Has anyone ever sorted it out?’ ‘And they said something like.’ no, not really, the images have not been completely digitized ‘ . “. So naturally, neither one nor two, Gareth Edwards and his team have used in this immense source of archived footage and images never used to see if they could use some . And this is how Garven Dreis (Drewe Henley) and Jon Vander (Angus MacInnes) came back to life and participated in the Battle of Scarif! What did you think of this space battle?