![]() ![]() One major inspiration for what would become an eye-popping opening reveal: the crawl for the first “Star Wars” film, which dropped viewers into a brand new galaxy, filled with Rebels, a Galactic Empire, even something quite fearsome called a Death Star. History has its eye on you.’ History remembers what happened, and the Sith should not go quietly into the night.” ![]() ![]() The character might be mentally ready to be done with it, there’s the voice of the past, literally, the emperor saying, ‘Not so fast, my boy. “We also wanted that line, ‘The dead speak.’ … You might be able to say ‘kill the past,’ and that might be genuinely what Kylo Ren is trying to do in ‘Episode 8’ and even at the beginning of ‘Episode 9,’ but the past isn’t done with him yet. “We debated and debated what the crawl would say, and we wanted to have the word ‘revenge’ in the crawl, a message of revenge in the voice of the late Galactic Emperor Palpatine,” Terrio told IndieWire. “The galaxy has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of REVENGE in the sinister voice of the late EMPEROR PALPATINE.” It’s a hell of a start to a film. That Plot-Packed Opening CrawlĪbrams and Terrio open the film with a plot-packed opening crawl that doesn’t simply catch up with the series’ beloved characters, but unveils that not only is the long-thought-dead Emperor Palpatine still alive he’s bent on getting his final revenge. The morning after the film’s Hollywood premiere, IndieWire got on the phone with a decidedly tired Terrio - “we all looked 20 years younger at the start of this process!,” he joked - who was still very game to break down some of the more shocking elements, twists, turns, and big questions of “The Rise of Skywalker.” The Best 30 LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now 'White Noise': All the Details on Noah Baumbach's Film Starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: The Fan Service Is Strong In a Snazzy but Uninspired Climax The 6 Biggest Spoilers in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ and What they Mean for the Future of ‘Star Wars’ If you’ve come this far, you likely know much more than just that, and if you don’t, stop now! Spoilers ahoy, thanks to the in-depth observations of Abrams’ co-writer, “Star Wars” newbie (and “Argo” and “Justice League” screenwriter) Chris Terrio. By now, audiences surely know this much: that the film includes the return of a major villain, that it puts to bed years of speculation about Rey’s parentage, and it resets much of what we know about the magic and mystery of the Force. Abrams’ second “Star Wars” outing, “The Rise of Skywalker.” The final film in the newest trilogy doesn’t just conclude (for now) the adventures of Rey (Daisy Ridley), Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Finn (John Boyega), and Poe (Oscar Isaac), it also shuts the door on a beloved franchise that first kicked off with 1977’s revelatory “A New Hope.”įor a final film, “The Rise of Skywalker” is packed with far more than just loose-end tying-up, rolling out a number of new characters and plots to push through before a final, genuinely tearjerking scene. After nine films and over four decades, the Skywalker Saga has come to a close with J.J.
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