The Rise of Skywalker lower Rey’s lightsaber sub-plot

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker did not win everybody over with its remedy of Rey, with many followers complaining about *that* Reylo kiss and her shock heritage.

Fortunately, new Star Wars tales and idea artwork have been making up for issues – together with the thriller of her yellow lightsaber that we caught a glimpse of on the finish of Episode IX.

Throughout the ultimate Skywalker Saga trilogy, we noticed Rey wield Luke’s blue-bladed saber, in addition to Leia’s, however the remaining scene of The Rise of Skywalker had Rey bury them each, earlier than unveiling her personal yellow quantity.

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Now, Lucasfilm inventive artwork supervisor Phil Szostak has defined the place the hell that lightsaber got here from, revealing on Twitter that the saber even had its very personal sub-plot, which was ultimately lower from the film.

“The lightsaber was going to be in more than just one shot at the end,” he defined, sharing idea artwork of some preliminary lightsaber designs.

“There was going to be a subplot throughout the film showing Rey working on it at her bench, using the Jedi texts as a guide.”

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Another plot level involving Rey that did not make the lower was another iteration of Dark Rey, which noticed the character put on a crumbling helmet in an homage to The Empire Strikes Back.

Concept artist Adam Brockbank just lately shared the preliminary drawings on-line, explaining Dark Rey was meant to evoke “Luke’s force vision on Dagobah”, during which he fights Darth Vader solely to understand that he was really combating himself.

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

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