Many critics complimented Rogue One on being able to keep an incredibly similar aesthetic to the original Star Wars, those last minutes seamlessly going straight into A New Hope.
“This would be the first Star Wars film that did not have a Jedi factor,” Whitta told the aforementioned publication.
Gary Whitta – who wrote the original screenplay for Rogue One – worried that fans wouldn’t want a Star Wars story that was focussed on regular Rebels rather than Jedi.
Along with links to the sequel trilogy, director Gareth Edwards originally had plans to include more references to the prequels, mainly the Clone Wars.