Star Wars Episode IX: Duel Of The Fates - 10 Things We Learned From Colin Trevorrow's Leaked Script
But would it have been better than The Rise of Skywalker?
THE DEAD SPEAK! Colin Trevorrow's old Star Wars Episode IX script supposedly made its way over to Reddit this week, courtesy of YouTube user Robert Meyer Burnett. What makes this one so special? Well apparently it's true. Both The A.V. Club and now The Playlist have corroborated the leak with their own sources, and while there are discrepancies between certain write ups, all signs point towards this script as being legit.
So it's true. All of it.
What makes this particular leak so juicy (apart from the fact it's apparently real), is the fact that the Episode IX we got ended up being such a divisive film. JJ Abrams and Chris Terrio seemingly endeavoured to go out of their way to ignore everything Rian Johnson did with The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker suffered because of it. Now, with talk of a discontented cast and behind-the-scenes trouble, the production process behind Episode IX has fallen under a microscope, with fans and critics applying intense scrutiny to a film that was clearly plagued with issues from the start.
There's no overstating the task Trevorrow had going into Episode IX. He was capping off the entire Skywalker Saga, not just the Sequel Trilogy, and the untimely passing of Carrie Fisher in 2016 forced him into a complete rewrite, with Leia having supposedly played a major role in Episode IX's original draft.
Eventually Trevorrow left and Abrams replaced him, but the Jurassic World director's version of IX, ostensibly titled Duel of the Fates (a callback to John Williams' famous track for The Phantom Menace), sounds mighty fascinating. So, here's everything we learned from the leaked script, including just how much it differed from Abrams' version...