STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Star Daisy Ridley Says Colin Trevorrow's EPISODE IX Was "Very Different"

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Star Daisy Ridley Says Colin Trevorrow's EPISODE IX Was "Very Different"

While you might think that Lucasfilm would have the entire Star Wars trilogy mapped out, Daisy Ridley has now confirmed that Colin Trevorrow's vision was very different to what J.J. Abrams has planned...

By JoshWilding - Jul 06, 2019 04:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: Happy Sad Confused (via Collider)

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow was set to take the helm of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker but "creative differences" led to the filmmaker parting ways with Lucasfilm. Following the backlash aimed at Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi, the studio needed to find someone they could trust and that more than likely explains why J.J. Abrams received a call. 

However, while you might think that plans for Episode IX were set in stone a long time ago, star Daisy Ridley has now confirmed that what Trevorrow had planned for the finale was "very different."
 

"He was Josh [Gad's] guest at [the] Murder on the Orient Express [premiere] and we went for dinner afterwards, and Colin sat next to me and I was like, 'What’s this gonna be like?' Because all I had heard -- I didn't know what had happened, I just knew that he wasn't doing it anymore," she explained.
"And he did sort of tell me and sort of not... Actually, no we had gone for dinner and stuff, we went for dinner with Michelle [Rejwan], who is a producer. So I sort of knew. I think everything happens for a reason I guess." It's hard not to wonder what he planned but even more hard to believe that Lucasfilm has seemingly never had a firm beginning, middle, and end for this trilogy!
 

Do you wish we'd seen Trevorrow's version of The Rise of Skywalker?

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BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 7/6/2019, 4:58 AM
So he said it was very different but did but didn't?
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 7/6/2019, 5:08 AM
@BritishMonkey -

Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 7/6/2019, 5:06 AM
"While you might think that Lucasfilm would have the entire Star Wars trilogy mapped out"

Why would any rational person assume Disney Lucasfilm has that much sense at this point?
OptimusPrimeTime
OptimusPrimeTime - 7/6/2019, 5:16 AM
So his version would have been good. Likely original, while still adhering to the mythos and groundwork set before him.


Exactly the opposite of what we got. Ok.. got it.


#notmyskywalker
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 7/6/2019, 5:27 AM
Not sure what I learned here, but okay.
Talontd
Talontd - 7/6/2019, 5:32 AM
Rian Johnson confirmed this during the backlash to TLJ. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, to say i'm extremely disappointed is an understatement. Kathleen Kennedy was supposed to Shepard this franchise with the help of Kasdan and his son...but who knows wtf happened..

Kyos
Kyos - 7/6/2019, 5:36 AM
While you might think that Lucasfilm would have the entire Star Wars trilogy mapped out

Nebula
Nebula - 7/6/2019, 5:48 AM
@Kyos -
FranValle
FranValle - 7/6/2019, 6:04 AM
Nah...obviously the story itself (the way things happen during the movie and certain events) was going to be different but the key points/core story elements during this movie (and the whole trilogy) were intact and totally set in stone.

You just have to read the episode VIII visual dictionary, and using your head, to know everything.

The whole plan is putting the definitve closure to the saga by beating the ancient/greatest evil (aka snoke the first jedi) combining light (rey) and Kylo (dark) in that final fight against him (grey) putting and end of that milenial endelss fight between jedi and sith as Snoke is the primal dark, like the embodinment of the original sin.

Just screencap that, ep.VIII visual dictionary gives you that clear information for IX in the section "Snoke - Heart of darkness" in which they confirm that THE WHOLE SITH LINEAGE WAS UNDONE by vader when sacrificing himself to kill Sidious but the fullfilment of the prophecy said it isis the end of the sith but never said it was the end of the darkness, and again the title of this section is "Snoke heart of darkness"... he is the origin of the dark side.

Pd: marketing will be use Palpatine to misdirect/fool people.
Kyos
Kyos - 7/6/2019, 7:31 AM
@FranValle - the ancient/greatest evil (aka snoke the first jedi)

Snoke is the primal dark


Snoke turned out to be probably the most powerful and influential figure next to Palpatine and a clueless idiot in a bathrobe playing pretend-Emperor. He's a less charming version of Trevor Slattery, if Trevor Slattery had actually been the head of a Hydra-like organisation that managed to take over the world.

PAbloYocroNUtS
PAbloYocroNUtS - 7/6/2019, 6:08 AM
Translation of Daisy Ridley’s answer:

hartley07
hartley07 - 7/6/2019, 6:08 AM
does nobody remember that literally every single cast and crew member along with Kathleen already said 5 years ago that THERE WAS NO PLAN??? this is not news in any way shape or form. episode 9 will not be the moment weve waited for for 40 years, it's just whatever nonsense they slapped together at the last minute. If you are looking for the "authorized continuation of the star wars saga" you need to read the EU. Disney just so happen to leave that quote off the back of their reprint of heir to the empire. Like it or not, the EU is the only continuation of star wars edited and approved of by George. He even tailored his prequels to fit the books. That sounds "beholden" enough to me, kathleen.
You cant deem one set of stories fan fiction, then base your so called "canon" around THAT.
#trEUcanon
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 7/6/2019, 6:32 AM
@hartley07 - He maybe occasionally threw EU a bone, but he didn't keep up with it, always maintained that it wasn't "true" canon and was happy to contradict it.

Remember Mandalorians?
hartley07
hartley07 - 7/6/2019, 9:44 AM
@FinnishDude - remember how non-canon and the EU were separate? most people forget there was an actual category called NON CANON. if your not NON CANON, that makes you canon, even if not GEORGE canon. It was still "official star wars history" according to Lucasfilm, and George had to personally approve of everything that went into it. Plus the term "sith" wasnt even George's idea, and hea quotes on saying his story needed to match up to the books and bixe verse because a sophisticated audience needs 1 coherent story, not several versions.
hartley07
hartley07 - 7/6/2019, 9:47 AM
@FinnishDude - an besides, it can be truly said that the sequels aren't George's "true" canon either, as he left them "explicit instructions to not make more features starring Luke leia or han". if the EU isnt "true" canon, then I guess the sequels aren't either. that's why people will forever call it "Disney canon".
hartley07
hartley07 - 7/6/2019, 9:50 AM
@hartley07 - vice* versa
hartley07
hartley07 - 7/6/2019, 11:16 AM
@BadBobBooth - again..as stated...he was involved, as everything in the EU needed to be personally run past George himself, and he involved himself enough to TAYLOR HIS CANON MOVIES to the books in order to have 1 story.
The EU directly altered George's canon.
This is all beside the fact that according to the writers guild of America, the star wars sequels are less canon than the EU as Disney are secondary owners. It's no more canon than any comicbook movie. None of the EU had to say "BASED ON characters created by George lucas" like disneys trash is forced to, because the EU was the authorized official history OF THOSE CHARACTERS.
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