

He also discusses the Force power that Episode IX shares with The Mandalorian, Han and Kylo’s atonement scene and Rey’s trip to Tatooine as well as the big reveal that she is a Palpatine. In a conversation with THR, Terrio also reveals that he and Abrams “debated endlessly” about the moment that reveals Luke and Leia together as Force Ghosts. adores and respects Kelly and would have loved to keep every second he shot with her in the film.” had to make - especially given that I know for a fact that J.J. “But it’s the nature of the process that certain scenes fall out of the film, and I very much respect the difficulty of the decisions J.J. “There were a couple of scenes that we shot with Rose that I wish had made it to the final cut,” Terrio tells THR.

(Terrio has said elsewhere that the “standard of photorealism” involving Carrie Fisher’s Leia was to blame in a couple instances.) Much to the regret of Terrio, a decent amount of Rose’s screen time fell on the cutting room floor. It was more like we were in dialogue with Rian by using what Luke did at the beginning of The Last Jedi to now say that history will not repeat itself and all these characters have grown.”Īfter the social media abuse that actor Kelly Marie Tran endured following The Last Jedi, fans wondered how Abrams and Terrio would incorporate her character, Rose Tico, into Episode IX’s narrative. “I think it would be a bad misreading to think that that was somehow me and J.J. At the end of The Last Jedi, Luke has changed,” Terrio tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Those people who see it as a meta-argument between J.J. Without hesitation, Terrio says otherwise. Some Rise of Skywalker audience members have argued that Luke Skywalker’s line - “A Jedi’s weapon deserves more respect” - is a swipe at Johnson’s decision to have Luke toss his storied lightsaber aside in Last Jedi. One of the many questions going into The Rise of Skywalker was how it would interact with the divisive previous installment, Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi.

Superman: Dawn of Justice screenwriter is finally able to pull back the curtain on his Star Wars experience. After working day and night for almost two-and-a-half years, the Argo and Batman v.

Abrams pulled him back in to co-write Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the concluding episode in the nine-episode Skywalker saga. Just when Oscar winner Chris Terrio thought he was out of franchise filmmaking, J.J.
