STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Writer Chris Terrio Shares New Details About The Emperor's Return

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Writer Chris Terrio Shares New Details About The Emperor's Return

Writer Chris Terrio weighs in on how Supreme Leader Snoke's death led to Emperor Palpatine's return in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and reveals some intriguing new details in the process...

By JoshWilding - Jan 02, 2020 08:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: Awards Daily
Much to the surprise of, well, everyone, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brought back the villainous Emperor Palpatine. It was shocking because there hadn't been so much as a single hint about his return before that first trailer was released, and writer Chris Terrio has now addressed how that came about. 

During an interview with Awards Daily, Terrio explained that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Senior Vice-President of Live Action Development and Production Michelle Rejwan had "clear plans about certain narrative marks they wanted us to hit," but Supreme Leader Snoke's demise in The Last Jedi is what ultimately led to Emperor Palpatine being brought back.
"[Redeeming Ben Solo] gets tricky at the end of Episode VIII because Snoke is gone," he explains. "The biggest bad guy in the galaxy at that moment seemingly is Kylo Ren. There needed to be an antagonist that the good guys could be fighting, and that’s when we really tried to laser in on who had been the great source of evil behind all of this for so long."

"The source of the evil in the galaxy is this dark spirit waiting for its revenge and biding its time. The entity known as Palpatine in this version – his body died in Return of the Jedi – is patient and has been waiting." What's interesting about these remarks is that Terrio is essentially confirming that the Emperor in this movie was, as some fans suggested, a corpse possessed by Palpatine's spirit.

Well, that or he was indeed a clone! Either way, the Palpatine we knew did die in Return of the Jedi.

Interestingly, Star Wars News has revealed that they initially heard from sources that Matt Smith was indeed cast as a version of Palpatine before J.J. Abrams scrapped the idea and brought back Ian McDiarmid. That presumably means The Rise of Skywalker once included more flashbacks or an Emperor who was restored to his youth.

What are your thoughts on these comments?
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GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/2/2020, 8:42 AM
Chris Terrio opens his mouth***

SW fandom:
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 1/2/2020, 9:05 AM
@BlackBeltJones - i feel like he was drinking and chuckling to himself while writing this script ..........
soberchimera
soberchimera - 1/2/2020, 9:15 AM
@knocturnalzen10 - Chris Terrio be like: "Well, there's another franchise I've wrecked, my work here is done."
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/2/2020, 10:32 AM
@knocturnalzen10 - he wanted to see this world burn.
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 1/2/2020, 9:04 AM
these statements are so patronizing , it's down right insulting to anyone who actually cares about star wars :/ ....
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 1/2/2020, 9:37 AM
@knocturnalzen10 - After Ewoks, Pod Racing, and Hayden I would have thought you'd be used to being insulted.
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 1/2/2020, 9:57 AM
@Reeds2Much - actually after these last 3 you can at least say lucas was trying and he kept things in one stream ....
Johnson and Abrams obvious weren't even in the same board room when going over the story direction
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 1/2/2020, 9:12 AM
Tcb97
Tcb97 - 1/2/2020, 9:14 AM
"[Redeeming Ben Solo] gets tricky at the end of Episode VIII because Snoke is gone," he explains. "The biggest bad guy in the galaxy at that moment seemingly is Kylo Ren". Hot take, but they should have just went along with what The Last Jedi set up, Kylo should have been the main bad guy, no redemption for him. At least it would have made for a more unique/emotional finale that the one we've got. Rise of Skywalker was just another Return of the Jedi. The Emperor is looming over everything, The dark side user gets redeemed and dies, and our hero is related to the bad guy and wins. For all its problems, The Last Jedi is easily my favorite of the sequel trilogy for at least trying to break free of some of the conventional Star Wars tropes. Episode 7 & 9 just 'borrow' way to much from the OT and include so many forced fan service moments to prove it (especially episode 9).
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 1/2/2020, 9:16 AM
The Emperor announces himself to the galaxy only to be defeated like two days later.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 1/2/2020, 9:23 AM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - And just think, he waited THIRTY SIX YEARS to reveal himself, only to be defeated in like two days.


Of course, since he's died before, what's to say that this "death" actually sticks? Smh

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