20 Utterly Devastating Movie Endings No One Saw Coming

Who would have thought that a story based out of little more than a throwaway line from a film released 39 years earlier would have resulted in one of the best Star Wars movies to date.

Rogue One is genuinely better than anything the franchise has put out since the original trilogy, despite a cast of largely all-new characters, with no familiar connections. All that was known was that it would lead directly into A New Hope, and show how the Rebels got their hands on the blueprints for the Death Star.

There are a few notable things about the first non-Skywalker Saga chapter of the franchise. It impressively talked its way out of the apparent idiocy surrounding the Death Star vent, it featured one of the greatest, spine-tingling character entrances of all time with Darth Vader (James Earl Jones), there was controversy surrounding the CGI appearance of Carrie Fisher's Leia Organa, and, of course, every major character died at the end.

Yes, if the likes of Andor or Jyn Erso (Diego Luna and Felicity Jones) would have survived, there would have been questions revolving around their whereabouts during the original trilogy's events, but it's not like those same questions aren't raised about Ahsoka. No, watching Cassian and Jyn in particular get obliterated on Scarif, knowing that they had, in Luthen's (Stellan Skarsgård) words from season one of Andor, given their lives for a sunrise they would never see, was shocking, but incredibly poignant and satisfying.