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Post #1428047

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Hal 9000
Parent topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
6-May-2021, 12:51 PM

I think a Shaw version would be awesome to see, and I’d be tempted to use it, but I do feel Hayden is better for this because he absolutely would have been there in the theater in 2019.

It’d also be awesome to see Hayden mapped onto Shaw in a seamless way in ROTJ, but then again I think any of that kind of stuff would be fun to see. But I have no interest in seeing Hayden in ROTJ. I really like the statement I always inferred from the original version that when Anakin died, he was ‘restored’ rather than ‘reverting’ back to the version of himself that was about turn evil anyway. Redemption, not undoing it.

As I thought about the possibility we could see Anakin in TROS before it’s release, I hoped they would at least let Hayden appear somewhat older than he did in ROTS. No long hair, but not necessarily elderly either. Just to break from “I am literally exactly how I was right before turning evil.” It probably would’ve looked too silly, but I’d have even liked to have him made up to resemble Shaw, maybe just his hair even.