After the reinvigorating thrills of The Force Awakens (the best Star Wars film since Empire), some fans howled with frenzied derision at Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi, feeling “betrayed” by its somewhat iconoclastic take on the series’ ever-expanding mythology, a complaint Abrams appears to have taken to heart. With The Rise of Skywalker, the stakes are raised not only because it attempts to wrap up a story arc spanning three trilogies, but also because it follows what proved to be the most divisive episode in the entire series. Fast-forward to 2005 and Revenge of the Sith, for all it manifest flaws, proved to be a low highlight of George Lucas’s terrible prequel trilogy – ploddingly executed, yet still somehow preferable to the inanities of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. The result is a handsome if creaky and oddly inconsequential final film that lurches around the galaxy at light speed without actually getting anywhere, as it steers a course between the inventive and the inevitable.īack in 1983, the first Star Wars trilogy ended less with a bang than a whimsy, as Return of the Jedi failed to live up to its series-best predecessor The Empire Strikes Back (it was memorably dismissed as only having “a bunch of muppets” in Kevin Smith’s Clerks).
Turning his back on the controversies of The Last Jedi, Abrams conjures a mix of crowd-pleasing spectacle and unadventurous storytelling, steering a whizz-bang course between a series of oddly familiar set pieces as he ties up some long-running narrative threads while leaving others hanging. Those, presumably, are the qualities that put JJ Abrams back in the pilot’s seat for this safe but solid series finale, after Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow (who was originally signed to direct) failed to take control of this blockbuster ship. General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) in STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd.E nding a Star Wars trilogy can be as tricky as destroying a Death Star, requiring a rare mix of battlefield experience and blind faith in The Force. The next trailer of the film is expected to be released on Monday. Meanwhile, the reshoots of “Star Wars: Episode 9” have wrapped.
This is also the moment when the Resistance General will realize that she is pregnant.
The heroes have to destroy the tower in order to stop the Sith fleet from leaving the Unknown Regions and spreading chaos across the galaxy.Īs far as Luke and Leia training sequence is concerned, Bespin Bulletin confirmed that it has been moved to the part of the movie where Luke tells Rey (Daisy Ridley) about it.
The control tower that is seen in the opening sequence will play a role in the last act of the movie. The Emperor will call to him when he gets the device. The action sequences of the Supreme Leader killing the natives of a swamp planet have been toned down and he will find the device in a chest in a castle. The other changes in “Star Wars: Episode 9” are related to Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and how he gets the wayfinder device.