Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker - D23 Footage Reveals Rey With Double-Ended Red Lightsaber

With Disney currently unveiling more new plans for their behemoth upcoming slate of movies, they opened the panel up with Star Wars, bringing out the entire cast of The Rise Of Skywalker to hype up the coming sequel.

Inevitably, the question of Carrie Fisher loomed large and director JJ Abrams has confirmed that she and Leia Organa will be at the very heart of the film's story. Intriguingly, he's also answered another question: how they could include her in the movie at all after her sad death.

Abrams told the audience at D23 that they had footage that was unused from Episode VII, which will be used for her scenes in Episode 9.

Touchingly, he also revealed that Fisher was "supernaturally witty as she had written a special thanks to JJ Abrams in her final book thanking him for working with her twice. By the time she wrote it and when she died, she'd only worked with Abrams once. What a lovely, emotional moment to be able to share for the director.

Intriguingly, the new footage shown at the event also included something very strange: the sight of Rey wielding a double-ended red lightsaber.

This appears to be different to the footage shown earlier at the con and that WTF ending is bound to get a lot of people talking. And on top of that, there appeared to be a new evil droid revealed too:

There's also a new poster out...