10 Movie Secrets They Actually Managed To Keep Before The Film Started

10. Everyone Dies - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Though the Star Wars sequel trilogy had most of its big rug-pulls spoiled weeks if not months ahead of time - enough that people actively assumed those Rise of Skywalker leaks had to be fake - the same wasn't true of the prequel spin-off Rogue One.

It's entirely possible that the availability of reliable leaks was hampered by an estimated 40% of the film being re-shot, but even so, most fans assumed Rogue One wouldn't offer up too many big surprises.

First and foremost, many fans quite understandably believed rumours that the film would be the first in a prospective trilogy of prequels, and so it seemed likely that, somehow, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and a few of her rag-tag teammates would survive their daring heist for the Death Star's plans.

After all, it's hardly in Star Wars' wheelhouse to throw characters away after a single movie, and so fans were left gobsmacked by the movie's bleakly table-clearing "everyone dies" finale.

Despite many assuming that at least Jyn and probably Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) would make it out in tact, they ended up perishing along with everyone else, dying in each other's arms in one of the most unexpectedly depressing death scenes in the entire franchise.

It wasn't in vain of course, with the duo managing to transmit the Death Star schematics before Scarif was annihilated by Grand Moff Tarkin, but considering how easy it would've been to have these characters survive for a few sequels, it was a shockingly ballsy move.

And best of all, it wasn't leaked ahead of time, ensuring even the spoiler-hounds were largely caught off-guard.