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).

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.

Was that second bit in response to my post about returning to this thread?

Anakin Starkiller said:

Was that second bit in response to my post about returning to this thread?

Not at all, and like I said it was within six months before TLJ hit theaters that I ended up reading that spoiler (which turned out to be fake), not more than a year out like we are now with Episode IX.

I’m wondering now where that story originated.

I read the spoilers for TLJ at about this point and they were on one hand fairly accurate and on the other wildly misleading. Some things were in the final film and some I can’t imagine ever being part of the story. It really depends on the quality of sources and how distorted the information has become.

Was the fake spoiler about Rey losing a hand in TLJ even a fake spoiler or did I stumble into mere speculation when I dipped into that thread last year?

I’m pretty sure it was joke.

Anyway, you guys seem to be backing up my idea that there will be so many fake leaks that it hardly matters even when there are real ones because you won’t be able to tell. Of course, set pictures are the exception. I also have yet to see fake concept art leaks (that I know of), although I don’t see why they couldn’t be faked. Regardless, concept art is often wildly different from the finished product.

This clearly shows the colour scheme of Boba Fett. Coincidence? I think not.

What are you talking about?! It’s clearly referring to him being in Smash Bros!

Oh yay, more desert.

SilverWook said:

The speculation I’m reading is a return to Jedha or Jakku. Jedha sort of seems less likely given what happened in Rogue One.

Jakku makes sense story wise. “Why does everyone want to go back to Jakku?” and all that.

Going back to Jakku would let them explore who Rey’s parents were. Are they really dead? Really nobodies? But I think Jedha would make more sense in terms of the saga. If Rey isn’t a Skywalker, her parentage is of no importance.

yotsuya said:

Going back to Jakku would let them explore who Rey’s parents were. Are they really dead? Really nobodies? But I think Jedha would make more sense in terms of the saga. If Rey isn’t a Skywalker, her parentage is of no importance.

I was perfectly happy with the reveal of Rey’s parents being nobody case closed, move along. If they keep insisting with this nonsense then fuck this movie.

fmalover said:

yotsuya said:

Going back to Jakku would let them explore who Rey’s parents were. Are they really dead? Really nobodies? But I think Jedha would make more sense in terms of the saga. If Rey isn’t a Skywalker, her parentage is of no importance.

I was perfectly happy with the reveal of Rey’s parents being nobody case closed, move along. If they keep insisting with this nonsense then fuck this movie.

Kylo could be lying. But my guess is if they do anything, they will be revealed to be no-one connected to any family previously in the saga (aka nobodies) but they might be significant in other ways and in any case, they were significant to Rey as they were her parents. But to assume Kylo was not lying in some way (the best Sith lies have been shrouded in truth but used to forward their own agenda) is a mistake.