There are specific reasons why Wedge Antilles, the beloved starfighter pilot for the Rebel Alliance in the original Star Wars trilogy, wasn't included in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Despite both Red and Gold Leader making a surprise appearance in the film during the Battle of Scarif, Wedge was nowhere to be seen. Lucasfilm Story Group's Pablo Hidalgo explained on Twitter that Wedge wouldn't actually be there in the battle, as the starfighter pilot had never seen the Death Star before A New Hope. Wedge famously says "Look at the size of that thing!" when he first sees the Death Star in Episode IV, and that was the line Hidalgo and LucasFilm were trying to preserve.
@JarackLawrence Wedge wouldn't be there. And amount of footage was a factor too. George did not "overshoot" SW, as evidenced by the edit.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) January 15, 2017
The second major reason for the character's absence is because there just wasn't enough footage of him that LucasFilm could use. Red and God Leader, on the other hand, had plenty of unused material from the original trilogy that Rogue One director Gareth Edwards decided to include.
However, Skywalker Sound's Mathew Wood did reveal that Wedge can still be heard (with David Ankrum voicing the character) in Rogue One guiding the Rebel Pilots to their starships.
Rogue One recently crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, and the film is receiving new novels to explore some character backstories.
Alex Gilyadov is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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