Does Rogue One reference A New Hope in the way the Death Star's firing......

fixit_fiona

I just saw Rogue One and have a question about a possible reference, if it is one. The Death Star is used twice in RO, just as in A New Hope (it is destroyed before firing the second time in ANH). In ANH, they used the same footage for the preparation of the blast. In RO I think that I noticed that they also use the same footage (not the footage from ANH but from RO) twice. Might this be a reference or is it just my imagination?

Originally asked by Jakob Elias on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Based on the similarities between the shots of the firing sequence, it is surely a tribute to A New Hope . But the shots are not exactly the same. There are slight differences.

Full answer by LevenTrek: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/91958 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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