The climax was dramatically altered in post-production. The way it was originally written and edited (and happens in the novelization), after Gold Leader and Red Leader fail to hit their mark, Luke makes two separate attempts during the Death Star's trench run. On the first attempt, he uses the targeting computer and misses, but during the second, going in at full throttle, he succeeds by trusting the Force. Also, the Death Star is simply hovering in space, it is never about to destroy the Rebel base on Yavin IV. It was the idea of editor Marcia Lucas (then-wife of writer and director George Lucas) to increase the stakes by signifying that the Death Star is slowly coming into firing range: note that every shot mentioning the countdown consists of an added insert of a screen or console and voice-overs, but no actors referring or reacting to the countdown. Marcia also combined shots from both of Luke's runs into a single sequence, so that he only has one chance to destroy the Death Star.

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