10 Deleted Movie Scenes You Won’t Believe Actually Happened

10. Empress Palpatine Takes The Throne - Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise Of Skywalker

Coming into JJ Abrams' 2019 send-off to the Skywalker Saga, one of the major rumours doing the rounds revolved around Daisy Ridley's Rey finally giving into the Dark Side.

However, by the time The Rise of Skywalker burst onto the scene in December, it was revealed that Rey was simply coming face-to-face with her darkest fear in the feature - a version of herself consumed by the Dark Side, equipped with a rather cool double-bladed lightsaber.

Yet, some behind-the-scenes footage of the Rise of Skywalker shoot actually later revealed some previously unseen scenarios involving this Dark Rey persona. In perhaps the most striking image released by Disney and Lucasfilm, Abrams is seen communicating with Ridley in full Empress Palpatine get-up, whilst the actor is perched on the Sith throne that we see towards the latter stages of the grand finale.

Could this mean there was an alternative ending which depicted Dark Rey replacing her grandfather as a Sith Lord?

Though that would have been shocking, it's more likely this scene was shot to visually compliment the moment in Rise of Skywalker where Rey explains experiencing a vision of herself on the throne of the Sith.