Trivia: When they power-up the Death Star, the control panel is a Grass Valley switcher, production equipment which is still prevalent in television stations everywhere.
Trivia: In frame by frames views of the scene where Vader lifts the Emperor and throws him down the shaft you can see x-rays of Darth Vader.
Trivia: Unkar Plutt, who Rey sells her haul to, is played by Simon Pegg.
Trivia: The planet where Jyn is being transported to the Imperial Labor Camp is called Wobani - an anagram for Obi-Wan. (00:12:20)
Trivia: Mark Hamill's three children have cameos as Resistance fighters.
Trivia: During the scene in the senate, after the shot of a Senator calling for order, we see pods with aliens in them. Towards the lower left you can see a pod full of E.T's. There's also a pod full of Wookies making their traditional noises, played for the first time in 20 years by someone other than Peter Mayhew. (01:25:30)
Trivia: In Cloud City, when Chewy finds C-3PO in pieces in what looks like a droid scrap room, you can see what looks like the upper half of IG-88 leaning up against the wall. It is revealed later in books to be the IG-88 unit that went in search of Han, but was intercepted and destroyed by Bobba Fett.
Trivia: Warwick Davis plays one of the marauders. He also played Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi.