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Ian McDiarmid discusses Palpatine being a clone + deleted lines
https://twitter.com/senatesidious/status/1233995580709449729

Ian said that in the “original script that is no longer with us” (hmm) Kylo points out Palpatine’s a clone, and Palpatine responds:

"More than a clone… less than a man.

Ian says it in character so that audio could be used in an edit at least.

Thankfully the change can be reversed to its original intent without too much difficulty.

Yeah it’s palatines voice inside kylo head, the dialogue goes something like this :

Palps -“the jedi apprentice lives, I hope you’re not trying to decieve me, dont make me turn my fleet against yours”

Kylo -“I know where she is going”

Palps -“good, kill her!”

shhh don’t ask just consume.

Kylo Ren seeks out THE SITH MASTER Tor Valum (FanMade audiobook excerpt)
https://youtu.be/XiUqPZjqyCA

Just skimmed through the TROS visual dictionary and lo and behold it explicitly says that the Sith loyalists took Palpatines body to Exogol and through “Science and occult” they brought him back to life.
Lucasfilm can’t decide which is it, clone or alive?
What happened to “an interconnected and consistent Canon”.
Such a shame, they’ve just thrown in the towel I guess.

In the original cut of the film his spirit latched on to his dead corps but it could no longer contain him, he needed kylo to bring him Rey so that he could feed off of the dyad, he posed himself as a dying man who wanted to pass off his empire to kylo And Rey but would later reveal later reveal his masterplan in the climax of the film. This was apparently changed late in the game to give Kylo more agency by making him the only one that knew of the dyad but this change sacrificed palpatines cunning and turned him into a Bmovie villian

Unreservedly loved the Sith statues in the the temple, made me want to play Kotor right after.

Ah I misread your comment, The way they addressed it is so half arsed and contrived that yes it would have been better if left ambiguous.

Problem is they ended up explaining it.
In a book…

IlFanEditore said:

This attitude is unbelievable for such a big, mainstream blockbuster.

Its a circus, the new CEO needs to start cleaning house at Lucasfilm.

Im now of the opinion that JJ had no clue what the explanation for his return was, throwing possible answers here and there but not sticking to one ex: random rebel “cloning, dark magic, secrets only the sith knew” (classic jj), early leaks stated that palps revealed to kylo that his body actually survived the fall so I guess they only decided on the explanation after the film was released and snuck it in to the novelisation.
Sigh

According to this page from the novisation The Emperor in TROS was (eyeroll) a clone.
https://i.redd.it/kqcgrp5r0wj41.jpg

I have my problems with TLJ but I hope Johnson gets his trilogy. In retrospect TLJ was the only film in the ST that had a backbone and a clear vision. I’m sure if you give him a clean slate he could come up with something incredible, he likes to decunstruct stories so I’d expect something along the lines of KOTOR 2 theme wise.

Alternatively you can have a combination of both sabers and blunt weapons.

Hopefully the guys at immersionvfx give them lightsabers for the Exogol fight.

A for me, has a nice classic quirky vibe to it.

Wegotthiscovered is a site that gets “scoops” directly from Mike Zeroh…
That’s a no from me.

In before “creative differences”.

Not radical but for the ST in general,
This Remix of Anthem of Evil from TROS would make for a fantastic First order theme, it was used too sparingly in Tros that I barely noticed it at all until I stumbled upon this compilation on youtube.

Link
https://youtu.be/PmgJSpHCGiI?list=RDPmgJSpHCGiI

Something subtle like the duel of the fates used for Maul in SOLO could work.

A little out there but maybe they are saving the deleted scenes for a re-release of an extended cut?
Alternatively the deleted scenes could be on the film disk instead of the bonus features disc.

At this point it’s painfully obvious that Disney is trying to save face but inevitably it’s going to backfire on them Big Time, Hopefully with the shitty security at Lucas-film/BadRobot someone will leak the entire thing, original cut, deleted scenes, scripts, everything, ala Duel Of The Fates.

A part of me is still hoping that they might be saving them for Disney+, but I’m holding at straws.

Could it be that this film endured Rogue One levels of reshoots? I mean it’s the only start wars film other than Rogue not to have deleted scenes on the blue Ray.