Something I’ve never heard anyone talk about is, how are they going to carry-on with IX when Carrie Fisher played a major role in TLJ?
It’s been talked about a lot, but mostly in regards to the fact that there were at least two surprisingly appropriate places to kill of Leia in TLJ and they didn’t take the opportunity to do so, even when they had plenty of time for reshoots after her death.
Personally, I’d have killed her off in the bridge explosion, reshot the rest of her scenes with Holdo, reshot the kamikaze run with Ackbar, and changed the ending so Luke doesn’t die (someone suggested he opens his eyes on Ahch-to after the “duel,” then lifts his X-wing out of the water and flies off-world to end the movie).
But that’s a lot to change due to one actor’s death, especially when she’d already filmed all her scenes, so you’re compromising the movie to do the next movie a favor rather than to make this movie better. So I get why they didn’t do any of that.
But at the very least I think they should’ve experimented with reshooting Luke’s ending so he survives after her death. Not that I’m not pumped for the possibility of Force spirit Luke haunting Kylo, mind you.