Fired Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow confirms leaked script, concept art for Episode IX.
Posted: 2020-01-26 10:13pm
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-coli ... confirmed/
This article gives some more details on the Episode-IX-that-might-have-been:
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-rise ... jj-abrams/
More Rose.
Rose and Finn trying to recruit more people to the Resistance.
Fucking Coruscant.
Rey is not a Palpatine.
Palpatine appears, but only as a hologram, though he's given a key role in Kylo's fall.
No Kylo redemption.
The film actually follows on from TLJ, rather than working systematically to undercut/retcon it.
Sounds good. On the downside, the whole Tor Valum thing seems weird. It sounds like its basically the "Darth Plageius is behind it all" fan theory, except inexplicably replacing Plageius with a brand-new character as Palpatine's mentor.
There's also really no entirely satisfactory answer to the Leia issue, but that's not the fault of the filmmakers, of course.
So, thoughts on this? Right off the bat, I'm going to say that "Duel of the Fates" is a much better title than "Rise of Skywalker".Colin Trevorrow confirms the Star Wars 9 original script leaks. While J.J. Abrams' The Rise of Skywalker has its fair share of supporters, its mixed reception led to an increased interest in what the movie could have been when Trevorrow was still onboard as director. Earlier this month, details about his script (which was called Duel of the Fates) made their way online, painting a very different picture when compared to Rise of Skywalker. The general feeling is Duel of the Fates was a more proper Last Jedi sequel, and some believe it would have been a better movie than Rise of Skywalker.
Reading about what Trevorrow had in mind was fascinating enough, but more recently fans got an opportunity to see what his Duel of the Fates could have looked like with concept art of scenes such as Kylo Ren battling his Darth Vader hallucination, Rey wielding a double-bladed lightsaber, and the epic Battle of Coruscant. At the time, it was unknown if the images were actually from Duel of the Fates development, but now Trevorrow has gone ahead and confirmed that indeed they are.
Responding to a fan's question on Twitter, Trevorrow said the artwork making the rounds online is from his Star Wars 9. Though, he did clarify that R2-D2 didn't die during the Battle of Coruscant; the fan-favorite astromech was only severely damaged. Take a look at his post in the space below:
Yes, this is from Duel of the Fates. But Iād never kill R2...he just took a bad hit. Happens to all of us. https://t.co/ekGMRUdV2g
ā Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) January 24, 2020
It's refreshing to see Trevorrow be open and transparent about Star Wars 9 (he even uses the Duel of the Fates title here), giving the leaks definite legitimacy. The director's been quick to debunk reports and speculation regarding his version of the film before (see: his denial leaked Rise of Skywalker concept art was from Duel of the Fates), so audiences know he's a trustworthy source on this subject. Trevorrow publicly discussing Duel of the Fates evokes Zack Snyder continuing to share images of Justice League's Snyder Cut. Obviously, Star Wars 9 and Justice League isn't entirely an apples-to-apples comparison, but there are some notable parallels between the two projects. And in both instances, viewers are left wondering if the scrapped version would have been better than what was officially released.
Trevorrow's probably limited in what he can talk about regarding Duel of the Fates, so it'll be interesting to see if anything else comes out at a later date. While the director does come out as a winner in all of this, it frankly wouldn't do him (or anyone else associated with Star Wars 9) much good to keep harping on the past. And missing out on Duel of the Fates didn't set Trevorrow's career back much, as he quickly picked up the Jurassic World 3 gig afterwards. He'll be focusing on that for the foreseeable future, but Star Wars fans would love to learn more about what happened on Duel of the Fates.
This article gives some more details on the Episode-IX-that-might-have-been:
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-rise ... jj-abrams/
So:Former director Colin Trevorrow's treatment for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has made its way online, and it sounds so much better than the one audiences got from J.J. Abrams. Originally hired to finish the sequel trilogy, Trevorrow was in the process of working on the film's script when it was announced in September 2017 that he exited the project due to creative differences with Lucasfilm. Not long after that when it was revealed that Abrams was returning to take on the mantle after he kicked off the ongoing story via Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015.
It would be an understatement to say that The Rise of Skywalker's filmmakers had their work cut out for them. Not only did the film need to be a satisfying culmination of the Skywalker saga, but it also had to work around the untimely death of Carrie Fisher, whose General Leia Organa was supposed to be a major focus of the movie. Plus, it needed to wrap up the sequel trilogy's story revolving around Rey, Kylo Ren, Finn, and Poe Dameron.
Fast forward to 2019, Abrams' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was met with divisive response from the public for a string of different reasons. And with the leak of Trevorrow's unused script for Star Wars: Episode IX, comparing it to what's officially canon, is inevitable. Based on what's been revealed thus far, it also sounds like a better story than what we got on the big screen.
A version of Trevorrow's script leaked online (and has been confirmed by various outlets), giving fans a sense of what his plans were for Star Wars 9 before his departure from the project. The most recent version of the treatment was finished just after Fisher's death in December 2016, explaining why there's not much about Leia in the story. Titled "Duel of the Fates," the script has several key differences from The Rise of Skywalker, including giving Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran) a proper arc. She joins Finn (John Boyega), C-3PO, and R2-D2 for an adventure of heir own - going to Coruscant in the hopes of recruiting more allies to the Resistance.
Another glaring difference is the handling of Rey's (Daisy Ridley) lineage, who is not a Palpatine in this version of the story. While the story did include Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), his appearance was only through a holocron that Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) discovered, setting off his path through the whole movie. Kylo Ren's story arc panned out very differently as he gets entangled with Tor Valum - a 7,000-year-old ghoul who apparently trained Darth Sidious. In the end, he wasn't redeemed, although he also suffered the same tragic fate. As the brainchild of Trevorrow, Duel of the Fates unsurprisingly also didn't include new Star Wars characters like Zori Bliss (Keri Russell) and the fan-favorite Babu Frik (voiced by Shirley Henderson).
More Rose.
Rose and Finn trying to recruit more people to the Resistance.
Fucking Coruscant.
Rey is not a Palpatine.
Palpatine appears, but only as a hologram, though he's given a key role in Kylo's fall.
No Kylo redemption.
The film actually follows on from TLJ, rather than working systematically to undercut/retcon it.
Sounds good. On the downside, the whole Tor Valum thing seems weird. It sounds like its basically the "Darth Plageius is behind it all" fan theory, except inexplicably replacing Plageius with a brand-new character as Palpatine's mentor.
There's also really no entirely satisfactory answer to the Leia issue, but that's not the fault of the filmmakers, of course.
