![]() ![]() He also inherited another problem: The tragic death of Carrie Fisher before the start of production. When Abrams agreed to return for Episode IX, replacing the original director, Colin Trevorrow, he inherited at least two other filmmakers’ storylines and plot twists. Abrams, faced an uphill battle on The Rise of Skywalker that makes the Resistance’s final stand on Exegol look like a day on Canto Bight. If Abrams had grand plans for this final trilogy of Star Wars movies when he made The Force Awakens, they weren’t necessarily followed by Rian Johnson when he developed The Last Jedi. Johnson took the groundwork Abrams’ laid and largely followed it to his own ends. ![]() It should be said that the film’s creators, primarily director/co-writer J.J. ![]() So much of The Rise of Skywalker feels that way. Rather than doing new things within the Star Wars galaxy, it focuses on undoing what’s already happened - up to and including events that happen earlier in The Rise of Skywalker. Revisiting the film for the first time since its release, I hoped it might looks better now that we’re many months removed from the enormous hype and the even-more-enormous pressure to conclude the Star Wars saga in a satisfying way. Instead, the film plays even worse than before. ![]() But he‘s fine - and even worse, the viewer already knows he’s fine - so it doesn’t matter. Instead, Chewie’s death is reversed so quickly that the audience learns he’s still alive before Rey and company get all choked up and agree to continue their quest because, darn it, that’s what Chewbacca would have wanted. Perhaps if Chewie really had died in some noble, heroic way, it might have lent that scene some emotional impact. For that brief moment, it looks like the final Star Wars film might do something unexpected with the material. The 180 seconds where Chewbacca had apparently passed on are the most exciting in all of The Rise of Skywalker. ![]()
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