Star Wars: Rogue One Almost had a Grim A New Hope Reference

There is little doubt that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was perfect just the way it is. However, it looks like the standalone film almost had an interesting yet grim reference to A New Hope. Sadly, the Easter Egg had to be removed due to budget constraints.

Rogue One writers Gary Whitta and Chris Weitz recently spoke to Cinefix about working on the film and they revealed several cool details about the Gareth Edwards movie. For instance, the scribes admitted that the Rebels home base was originally going to be the planet Dantooine.

"Originally, the rebel base is actually on Dantooine. And you see the rebels evacuate Dantooine and move to Yavin 4. But it didn't really accomplish anything in the story, other than to nod to the Star Wars fans, like, ‘Hey, remember Dantooine? There was an evacuated rebel base there? Well, now you get to see them evacuate it.' But it didn't move the story forward and it would have cost a ton of money, so all of the action takes place on Yavin 4," they said.

This would have been an unexpected surprise considering that Dantooine was later destroyed in A New Hope. Princess Leia was forced into telling Moff Tarkin where the Rebel home base was and she mentioned the planet knowing that the Rebels have moved to Yavin 4. Unfortunately, it led to the destruction of an entire planet.

Do you think Rogue One should have included a reference to Dantooine? Sound off in the comments below.

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