I just had a major idea yesterday for an Episode IX rewrite. Basically, I’d do that trope where are all the important are together descending deeper into a tomb or temple or whatever. In this case, the Jedi Temple. Indiana Jones does this a lot, but I can think of other examples from very different genres. I wonder if this trope has a name…

Anyway, you have Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, R2-D2, C-3PO, and Kylo and the Knights of Ren journeying into the depths of the Jedi Temple looking for…something, idk. At first the heroes are being kept as hostages, as is fairly standard for this trope, but eventually, they start working together as Kylo drifts towards the Light. The Knights are one by one killed off by the perils they encounter.

Eventually they reach the bottom. It’s a Sith temple (as George Lucas said was under the Jedi Temple), with a mountaintop view onto what were perhaps once lush plains. Mysterious shadows move in the distance. Who knows what lies further beneath?

Anyway, in the temple, they find none other than the Senate himself, Sheev Palpatine (as an emaciated cyborg, of course). They confront him together and manage to overpower him and they all live happily after. Maybe some of them die, idk.