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A new rumor about a Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker test screening describes the film as “all over the place” and “confusing.”
The Emperor blasts Rey with Force Lightning, but she deflects it back at him causing The Emperor to blow up, dying once and for all. Rey then shoots Force Lightning into the sky and disables the Sith Armada. The remaining Resistance ships finish off the Sith Armada. Rey’s lightning was more impressive than Dooku’s and it was by accident. I do agree their raw power isn’t far apart but Kylo should have the edge based off of story presentation and feats. I don't see why the force would be any different, and Rey has reacted to and shoot lightning herself, so I don't think that will be a game changer. IMO bloodbending is overrated by the fanbase.
The rumor comes from YouTuber Doomcock, who received the information from a source that he describes as having “knowledge of the production.”
Doomcock details his source told him that the film, “Bored the F out of me.” He adds the film “might be worse than The Last Jedi.”
Doomcock then explains why his source described the film as all over the place and confusing.
“The narrative connection of events is threadbare. Things unfold because they have to, not because they logically should. The story seems to largely consist of multiple McGuffin style modular plots, achievements moving from one planet/set piece to the next. In other words, this thing is more like a video game than a story.”
He continues:
“My source was adamant they would not recommend that friends go see The Rise of Skywalker.”
Doomcock then details there is chaos behind the scenes at Bad Robot and Lucasfilm.
“I have confirmation from my source of just how bad things are behind the scenes. A version of the film was locked in as the final version. And then a day or two later another version of the film was locked in as final.”
He continues, “This new source reportedly has knowledge that at least five different version of the film exist. And this source verifies that in the last two weeks, two new versions have been finalized.”
Doomcock then reveals new leaks from the film, which he received from this new source.
“My source confirms that the last line of the film is ‘I am Rey. Rey Skywalker.’ Rey evidently says this line to another woman.”
He continues:
“My source confirms that throughout The Rise of Skywalker they use the name Skywalker as synonymous with Jedi so that Jedi is essentially replaced with Skywalker by the end.”
From there, Doomcock then lists out a number of scenes that have been rumored, and details whether they made it into the final cut of the film.
He first notes that the rumored scene of Luke training Leia is a Jedi is no longer in the film.
He explains why he believes this scene was cut:
“This is a common theme throughout this cut of the movie. I suspect that Disney is aware of how much fans hated these plot points. And Disney’s solution to the problem seems to have been not to fix the plot points, but rather to cut any attempted explanations of the plot points hoping that the film will be loud enough and confusing enough to breeze over the idiotic plot holes without explaining them.”
While the scene with Luke training Leia has been cut, Doomcock does indicate that Leia gives Rey a lightsaber.
He then details a scene between Kylo Ren and Emperor Palpatine.
“According to my source, Kylo stumbles across Emperor Palpatine fairly early in this cut. Kylo is looking for something called the Wayfinder.”
He continues:
“The Wayfinder, if we can even call it that, seems to be some powerful McGuffin that several characters are after. It’s like a Sith holocron, but not red. And it is the key to finding the Sith dagger that was used to kill Rey’s parents that has Sith runes on it that C-3Po will have to get his memory wiped to decode. And once he does that Sith dagger conveniently will lead Rey to another planet and so on until she finds Palpatine as we all know she will.”
Doomcock adds:
“It turns out the Emperor has been hiding out in the unknown regions and amassing a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers. He wants Kylo to join him, but the ultimate plan is to also bring Rey in to the fold.”
This cut of the film does not explain how the Emperor has returned. “All the explanations regarding the clones and the fact that it was a clone of Palpatine that died in Return of the Jedi, all of that is gone from this cut,” says Doomcock.
This cut of the film also reportedly cut Matt Smith’s role in the film. He has been rumored to play a younger version of Palpatine.
Doomcock then notes, “In this cut it is revealed that, yes, Palpatine is Rey’s grandfather, and yet her parents were nobodies?”
He continues, “Rey does find the Sith dagger. … My source says this Sith dagger is a ‘stupid McGuffin that makes Rey know everything. It’s really dumb.’ It has runes on it that 3PO must decode to help Rey out, but apparently doing so overloads 3PO and completely wipes his memory.”
Doomcock then provides new details about Keri Russell’s Zori Bliss.
“Keri Russell’s Zorri Bliss does not seem to be a Sith assassin as the rumors held, nor was she responsible for Rey’s parents’ deaths. The character is simply Poe’s friend from her spy smuggling days. She keeps her mask on the whole film. Apparently at one point she lifts a visor so you can see her eyes while she is flirting with Poe.”
He then provides an update on the final battle with Palpatine.
“Force ghosts do not engage with Palpatine, but they do talk to Rey during it. … The various cuts that had Luke returning in the flesh to fight against Palpatine, Anakin returning in the flesh, Leia returning in the flesh, these are all gone. It’s just Rey and Kylo versus Palpatine now. It’s confirmed that Rey shoots Force lightning during the struggle.”
As for Reylo, Doomcock states:
“Well, apparently throughout the movie they Force Skype each other, touch base, fight, then hang up. This happens over and over again. And Kylo and Rey essentially fall in love between Force Skype fighting, uniting to defeat the Emperor in the end.”
Doomcock’s source described the romantic subplot, “It’s really bad. Like Twilight bad.”
Doomcock continues, “Bad boy Kylo gets turned into a good boy by the love of the bestest girl ever.”
He ends the video saying, “We will never see the cut where the Millennium Falcon gets blown up killing Chewie, and Lando, and R2, and 3PO, and Leia. They cut that scene. They backed away from that abyss at least.”
What do you make of this new information from this Rise of the Skywalker test screening? What about the new rumors and leaks about the plot of the film?
Were you thirsting for more of the Knights of Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy? Well, you almost got your wish. Apparently, when Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly wrote their version of Star Wars: Episode IX — Duel of the Fates — the one thing they wanted was more Knights of Ren. These enigmatic badasses show up a lot more in this version of the story and actually play a major role in the plot and manage to fix a pretty glaring Force Awakens plot hole.
After various summaries of Duel of the Fates leaked online, an apparently legitimate entire version of the script hit Reddit and Twitter last weekend. If you've been following the saga of the un-filmed Trevorrow version of Star Wars: Episode IX, reading the script will — for the most part — confirm what fans have been worried about: It seems like this script was a lot better than what we got. Would everyone have gone along with shipping a Rey/Poe romance? Is Kylo's redemption a little too little and too late in this version? Sure, there are some problems, but for the most part, it seems like Duel of the Fates could have been a crowd-pleaser that didn't overly rely on nostalgia or retcon. And, most of all, it actually fixed something J.J. Abrams introduced in The Force Awakens.
For nearly four years, fans debated about the meaning of Rey's vision in The Force Awakens. In it, the Knights of Ren stand ominously in the rain. In the Duel of the Fates script, we learn Kylo Ren killed Rey's parents, and that vision of the Knights came from that exact moment.
On page 69 of the script, we get an early hint as to the meaning of that scene. Rey is fighting Hattaksa Ren, and when she looks at this Knight of Ren's mask, she has the Force Awakens flashback again and responds in anger. Then this happens:
This vision stirs a deep, vengeful ANGER in Rey. One she can’t yet explain but knows to be true.
Hattaska brings his saber down...but she extends her good hand, teeth clenched, eyes burning.
PURPLE FORCE LIGHTNING flows from her fingertips.
Hattaska Ren’s skull flashes within his helmet as the electricity destroys him.
The body falls, smoking.
Rey rises. Poe and Chewbacca are watching her, disturbed.
REY
I- I had no choice.
POE
It’s okay. Jedi do that. Right?
REY
I’ve seen that mask before. All of them.
So in Duel of the Fates, Rey does shoot lightning, but not because she inherited it from grandpappy Palps. Instead, she uses this ability after recognizing the Knights of Ren masks from her memory. During the epic lightsaber fight between Rey and Kylo at the end of the movie, Kylo admits it outright:
REY
Rey Shoots Force Lightning
My parents didn’t sell me for drinking money. They were hiding me from you.
KYLO
So you remember.
Rey Shoots Force Lightning Gear
FLASH TO The Knights of Ren in the rain--the image from Rey’s Force vision when she first touched the lightsaber.
A distant child SCREAMS.
KYLO (CONT'D)
Snoke made his orders clear. Find anyone who could destroy him. It didn’t take us long to find you.
REY
You killed my parents.
KYLO
You blame me for your life on Jakku. You should thank me for it. You were safe.
REY
Rey Shoots Force Lightning Strikes
Say it! Did you kill them?
KYLO
Rey Shoots Force Lightning Force
I did.
Turns out, Ben Solo was not a good boy in the original Episode IX script and the reason why Rey had such a profound vision of the Knights of Ren is that they were all present at the murder of her parents. Which, in this version, she apparently aware of through the Force, and remotely 'saw' their murder from Jakku, as a child. Heavy.
These scenes may not make us like Kylo Ren, and feel darker than the Episode IX that we got. Still, this script makes sense relative to Force Awakens. In Duel of the Fates; Rey understands why she had the vision of the Knights of Ren. In The Rise of Skywalker, we never really get that clarity. Sure, the Knights of Ren are in the actual movie more, bu we're never really sure why she saw them in that damp dream sequence.
Instead, Abrams created a proxy for this plot point with the Sith agent Ochi, the true killer of Rey's parents. Clearly, Abrams was intent on turning Kylo Ren back to Ben Solo and giving him a heroic end, so the idea that Kylo murdered Rey's parents wouldn't have worked. But what about the other Knights of Ren? Was there no way to incorporate them into that backstory?
As it stands, The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker have several dangling, unresolved threads between them. But, the one that stands out the most is easily Rey's connection to the Skywalker lightsaber and her ominous vision in The Force Awakens. For better or for worse, Duel of the Fates would have made this connection clearer. And just like Rey building a double-bladed blue lightsaber, cobbled from Anakin's old saber and her staff, it sounds like it would have been amazing. Grittier and dirtier than The Rise of Skywalker, but certainly something everyone could have accepted. Maybe.
The Rise of Skywalker is in theaters now.