5) Godzilla Cave Painting
It’s hard to spot in the film itself, but some nods to past movies of director Gareth Edwards are hidden in Rogue One, namely on the cave wall of Saw Gerrera’s hideout on Jedha. The eagle-eyed among us will make out the M.U.T.O.s from his 2014 reboot of Godzilla, as well as the kaiju dinosaur himself. Edwards’s lesser-known debut work from 2010, Monsters, also gets a reference, with the titular tentacled creatures from the movie making an appearance on the cave wall, too.
We know this as Edwards confirmed the existence of the easter eggs in a recent interview, though he admitted that their inclusion wasn’t a bit of egotism on his part but an in-joke put in by the set designers.
“I didn’t ask for it, they just did it as a joke,” he said. “I came in one day and spotted it in the middle of a take.