Star Wars: 10 Reasons Duel Of The Fates Would've Been Way Better Than Rise Of Skywalker

10. The Title - Duel Of The Fates

Of all the things that were left out of Trevorrows script (and believe me, there are some absolute doozies), I will never be able to understand why they decided to ditch his original title for the film: Duel of the Fates. The title is perfect.

The previous films were building up to a massive showdown between not only the Jedi and the Sith but The First Order and The Resistance ,and the title encapsulates that perfectly. Not to mention, it's a wonderful way to pay homage to one of the greatest composers of all time, John Williams (who composed the song of the same name for 1999's The Phantom Menace), and all the work he has done for the Star Wars franchise over the last 40ish years.

Even people that can't stand the prequels will agree that Duel of the Fates is a piece of cinematic mastery so, to me, it's somewhat baffling why they would banish the title to the unknown regions of existence.

Instead, we got the title Rise of Skywalker which, unlike Duel of the Fates, left a lot of us more confused than exited about the final instalment of the sequels.