Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is more than just a prequel; it's an answer to a question that's been lingering in the Star Wars universe since the opening crawl in A New Hope first ran in 1977.

Star Wars: Rogue One bridges the gap between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, but Rogue One doesn't start right at the beginning of episode 4. There's still story left to tell in that liminal ...

Rogue One blends almost perfectly into A New Hope. The only issues, for me at least, is the slightly jarring escape, then recapture of Leia’s ship by the Empire, on which Leia is a terrible liar.

Rogue One Rationalizes A New Hope's Biggest Plot Holes. A large number of people saw this revelation coming, as the backstory of Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) became more and more fleshed out over ...

Rogue One didn’t even feature a Jedi, but that doesn’t mean the film wasn’t strongly tied into the Star Wars franchise. In fact, the end of Rogue One is the perfect segue into A New Hope, as ...

The promise of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is to expand on the original trilogy, and more specifically A New Hope, which the film precedes. Now that Rogue One's out (and it's very good), we know ...

In A New Hope, we had Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, and, in Rogue One, it seems that Rebel troops are the ones blasting down doors in order to recover Jyn from her cell.

One of the all-time best scenes in the original Star Wars film, A New Hope, takes on a slightly different meaning after watching Rogue One.A Lucasfilm exec teased the connection weeks ahead of the ...

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ends right before the events of A New Hope begin. Immediately after I saw the latest Star Wars movie, I (naturally) had to watch Episode IV as soon as I could because ...

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is more than just a prequel; it's an answer to a question that's been lingering in the Star Wars universe since the opening crawl in A New Hope first ran in 1977.