Rise of Skywalker Dark Rey was nearly Empire Strikes Back homage

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teased an inner battle between darkish and light-weight in Rey forward of its premiere, however what Episode IX delivered of ‘Dark Rey’ turned out to be nothing greater than her creativeness.

Rey’s wrestle to simply accept her conflicted heritage is not precisely an unfamiliar Star Wars trope, so it ought to come as no shock to be taught that authentic idea artwork for Dark Rey featured a homage to Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back.

Concept artist Adam Brockbank has been sharing his designs for Dark Rey over on Instagram, and not too long ago revealed in a submit that one iteration shared a placing similarity to Luke Skywalker and his personal battle in Episode V.

– Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker‘s darkish Rey lightsaber really had a nod to Darth Vader

“Staying with Dark Rey,” he wrote alongside a picture of Rey carrying the crumbling helmet of Kylo Ren. “This one was closer to Luke’s force vision on Dagobah… a disintegrating helmet revealing…”

The picture is a pleasant nod to Luke’s imaginative and prescient on Dagobah within the film, the place he fights Darth Vader solely to understand that he was really preventing himself.

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How an alternate imagining of Dark Rey would have gone down with followers is a thriller, as response to the Skywalker Saga’s conclusion has been properly and actually blended.

Opening up about among the destructive response to the film, Rey herself Daisy Ridley admitted that dealing with the frustration from some followers and critics had been “really tricky”.

“[Reaction has] changed film by film honestly, like 98% it’s so amazing, this last film it was really tricky,” she admitted, per Drag Cast.

“January was not that good. It was bizarre, I felt like all of this love that we would form of been proven the primary time round, I used to be like, ‘Where’s the love gone?’

“You know, everybody’s entitled to not like one thing however it feels prefer it’s modified barely,” she added. “I believe normally that is as a result of [of] social media and what have you ever.”

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is accessible on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now, in addition to on Disney+, Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW TV.

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