--- title: Star Wars: Rogue One Ending Cut With A New Hope Beginning description: A Star Wars fan spliced the end of Rogue One with the beginning to A New Hope to show how perfectly the two films fit together. canonical: https://time.com/4710077/star-wars-rogue-one-ending-new-hope-beginning/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-22T22:25:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:10.942Z og:title: Watch How Well Rogue One's Ending Leads Right Into A New Hope og:description: The Force is strong with this timeline og:url: https://time.com/4710077/star-wars-rogue-one-ending-new-hope-beginning/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch How Well Rogue One's Ending Leads Right Into A New Hope twitter:description: The Force is strong with this timeline twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See How Perfectly the End of _Rogue One_ Leads Into the Beginning of _A New Hope_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 22, 2017 10:25 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 22, 2017 10:25 PM UTC Seeing as [Rogue](http://time.com/4604155/rogue-one-star-wars-callbacks/)[ _One_](http://time.com/4604155/rogue-one-star-wars-callbacks/)ends how _A New Hope_ begins — with [Princess Leia](http://time.com/4618464/carrie-fisher-dead-star-wars-princess-leia-quotes/) in possession of the stolen [Death Star](http://time.com/4597087/rogue-one-star-wars-death-star-evolution/) plans — it seems only natural that a fan has now spliced the scenes from the two _Star Wars_ films together. Beginning with the moment soldiers aboard a Rebel ship receive the chip containing Jyn Erso’s crucial transmission in _Rogue One_, the edited clip shows how perfectly Leia’s attempt to escape [Darth Vader](http://time.com/4603719/star-wars-darth-vader-rogue-one-scene/) leads into his pursuit and subsequent boarding of the _Tantive IV_ ship in _A New Hope_. The video was created by Vimeo user Barre Fong and is just more than nine minutes long. 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