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Post #1239367

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Fang Zei
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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Date created
11-Sep-2018, 12:06 PM

DominicCobb said:

Fang Zei said:

Yeah, the ST has made it 2/3 of the way through without referencing anything about the OT that’s version-specific.

Was there ever any truth to that rumor from two years ago about Hayden as ghost Anakin showing up in TLJ?

Nope. Johnson has mentioned that he basically decided against the possibility completely as soon as he thought of it. I think the rumors started from a piece of concept art from TFA. But even then it was never seriously considered - the concept artists always come up some of their own ideas during development that sometimes get worked in, but that piece never made it past that one artist’s rendering as far as I can tell (well, I guess it ended up in the Art Of book).

Fascinating.

Yoda showing up was pretty much the only thing I spoiled for myself that turned out to be true aside from finding out in the wake of Carrie’s death that Leia ends up in a coma with Laura Dern’s character in charge, but even then I had no idea there would be this “on the run” storyline and just assumed they’d be down on D’Qar the whole time.

Actually, the spoiler I was really kicking myself for reading after peaking into the TLJ spoiler thread a little over a year ago - that Rey would lose a hand in true middle-chapter-of-the-trilogy tradition - turned out not to be true at all.