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!
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