Rogue One director Gareth Edwards explains away film's cameo 'plot hole'
** Minor spoilers ahead **
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Your support makes all the difference.Although Rogue One only hit cinemas a week ago, fans of the Star Wars series are already busy analysing every frame of the film searching for hidden easter eggs.
One plot hole noticed by many is how C3PO and R2D2 are seemingly left at the Rebel base, yet suddenly appear on Princess Leia’s ship, ready for A New Hope.
Gareth Edwards has addressed the issue, telling Digital Spy: “If you listen carefully to the dialogue, they say, ‘We need to contact [fleet commander] Admiral Raddus’, or something. And someone says, ‘He’s planning to fight’ or ‘he’s about to leave’, so he hasn’t left yet.
“The idea is that [the droids and Leia] would be stopped, saying, ‘You’ve got to help us’, so that includes Captain Antilles [the pilot who is killed by Darth Vader at the beginning of Episode IV] and all that stuff. So it’s technically OK.”
In another recent interview, Edwards spoke about the deleted scenes from the film seen in the previously released trailers.
Rogue One grossed almost $300 million over the weekend, putting Disney’s total gross for the year over the $7 billion mark, the most any studio has ever made in a single year.
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