Watch: Rogue One's ending going into A New Hope's beginning

One clever Star Wars fan has gifted us the edit we all wanted to see - splicing the ending of Rogue One straight into the opening of A New Hope.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is set right before the events of the first original Star Wars (1977) - as in right, immediately before - and now we can see how closely director Gareth Edwards shot-for-shot matched George Lucas' seminal opening scenes.

Warning: Spoilers for Rogue One, obviously.

What's more, fan Barre Fong's edit also gifts us arguably the best scene in Rogue One: Darth Vader in all his badass glory dealing out a brutal corridor smack-down while chasing the stolen Death Star plans.

The DVD and Blu-ray release of Rogue One is just a few weeks away, on April 5.

The full nine minute edit of Rogue One into A New Hope is below, and it's the best nine minutes you'll have today:

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