Star Wars Rise of Skywalker’s twist deliberate earlier than Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker spoilers comply with.

Rey’s shocking journey was mapped out all the best way again in 2014, virtually 18 months previous to the discharge of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

During final 12 months’s trilogy-closer The Rise of Skywalker, Rey ultimately adopted the ‘Skywalker’ mantle regardless of not sharing a organic hyperlink to the long-lasting title.

But within the e book The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a dialog involving artistic government Pablo Hidalgo reveals she was all the time going to do that, despite the fact that the sequel-trilogy has been criticised for missing an general plan.

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Via ScreenRant, Hidalgo mentioned: “I like the idea that she’s going to be our Skywalker, but she’s not a Skywalker. Then, for our purposes, ‘the Skywalker’ is really a metaphor. It doesn’t have to be something that’s directly connected to blood.”

So, mainly, being a Skywalker is extra like practising a type of heroic Jedi philosophy.

This is an attention-grabbing titbit for followers of the franchise, as in fact we be taught that Rey is the truth is the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine, the Sith Lord performed by Ian McDiarmid.

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Meanwhile, Star Wars novelist Rae Carson has defended Rey’s choice to forsake her Palpatine heritage in Rise of Skywalker.

“Rey rejects everything about him and takes on the Skywalker mantle and legacy. In the end, it’s a Palpatine who turns to the light, thus handing the Skywalkers their ultimate victory,” she defined.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is obtainable to pre-order on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now.

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