Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - Every Easter Egg & Reference You Must See
20. The Force Unleashed
When the First Order transport takes off with Chewie seemingly aboard, Rey demonstrates the full extent of her Force powers by using them to try and drag the transport back down to the ground.
It's a massive show of Force (sorry) that immediately reminds one of the promotional art for the 2008 video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which depicted protagonist Starkiller ripping a Star Destroyer out of the sky - and this was something you actually had to do in the game, too.
The framing of the scene in The Rise of Skywalker even looks pretty similar, and given that Abrams is a noted video game fan, we're going to accept this as an intentional nod.
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