'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's alternate script hints at a much darker film

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker was deemed to be weakest entry in Star Wars saga even though it was meant to be a conclusive film. Director Colin Trevorrow was associated with ninth film till 2017 before reportedly getting into a creative argument with Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. Trevorrow stepped down from project in September 2017, and film was n handed over to creative control of director JJ Abrams. Recently, a few details about original script started surfacing on social media. 

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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker's original script

original ninth film was titled to be Star Wars: Duel of Fates which was reportedly had a much darker tone. It was co-written by director Colin Trevorrow himself along with Derek Conlly. episode nine of Skywalker saga would primarily revolve around Rey and Kylo Ren trying to put an end to centuries-old conflict between Jedis and Sith. script also had great emphasis on character of Rose Tico, who was unapologetically given screentime of only a minute and 16 seconds in Rise of Skywalker. 

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darker tone set by director Colin Trevorrow revolved highly around character of Kylo Ren who spends majority of time in conflict with himself. Kylo Ren would also be haunted by ghost of Luke Skywalker in Darth Vader's old castle. According to Trevorrow's script, Rey's parents' origin was t glanced upon and y were revealed to be body specific to saga, as introduced by Star Wars: Force Awakens. scrapped script featured an ultimate lightsaber battle between Kylo Ren and Rey which gets interrupted by Luke Skywalker's force ghost. 

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