{"id":210138,"date":"2021-03-07T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/duel-fates-better-star-wars-finale\/"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T13:00:19","slug":"star-wars-duel-of-the-fates-wouldve-been-a-better-finale-than-the-rise-of-skywalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/07\/star-wars-duel-of-the-fates-wouldve-been-a-better-finale-than-the-rise-of-skywalker\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Duel Of The Fates Would’ve Been A Better Finale Than The Rise Of Skywalker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kathleen Kennedy initially hired Jurassic World<\/em>\u2019s Colin Trevorrow to direct Star Wars Episode IX<\/strong><\/em> to follow up J.J. Abrams\u2019 The Force Awakens<\/em> and Rian Johnson\u2019s The Last Jedi<\/em> and conclude the sequel trilogy<\/a>. However, after Trevorrow wrote several drafts of a script titled Duel of the Fates<\/em>, Kennedy fired him and began looking for a new filmmaker to come up with an ending for the entire Star Wars<\/em><\/a> saga on an accelerated schedule. Eventually, Abrams returned to the director\u2019s chair and got to work on what became The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A few weeks after The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> hit theaters and was widely panned<\/a>, Trevorrow\u2019s unused script and some related concept art leaked. The general consensus was that it seemed like a much more satisfying conclusion to the saga than Abrams\u2019 effort. We\u00a0can only speculate on how the actual movie would\u2019ve turned out \u2013 movies have to take a very long journey from the page to the screen \u2013 but the script and concept art alone have more coherence and imagination than anything in the final cut of The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>. Trevorrow\u2019s script provided closure on all the Star Wars<\/em> sequel trilogy\u2019s unplanned storylines and gave a spotlight to squandered characters like Finn, Poe, and Rose.<\/p>\n

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The leaked Duel of the Fates<\/em> script is dated 2016, a year before Trevorrow was fired, so it wasn\u2019t the final draft, but it was quite far along. There are certain logistical ways that Trevorrow\u2019s script wouldn\u2019t have worked on the screen, namely that Leia is the star. After Episode VII<\/em> was Han\u2019s movie and Episode VIII<\/em> was Luke\u2019s movie, Trevorrow wrote Episode IX<\/em> as Leia\u2019s movie. After Carrie Fisher\u2019s untimely passing, Trevorrow would\u2019ve had to alter his script significantly. But Leia isn\u2019t the only character who\u2019s well-served in this script. Every underserved sequel character trilogy gets a substantial arc in Duel of the Fates<\/em>. Rose gets more screen time in the opening scene \u2013 a Resistance mission to infiltrate a Star Destroyer \u2013 than she gets in the entire 142-minute final cut<\/a> of The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>. In the Duel of the Fates<\/em> script, the relationships between characters like Rey and Poe are much more developed and defined than they are in the final product, too.<\/p>\n

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Whereas Finn spends the entirety of The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> trying to get Rey\u2019s attention (and he doesn\u2019t even get to tell her<\/a> what he wants to tell her), he gets a much clearer arc in Duel of the Fates<\/em>. In an early scene, he encourages a wounded Stormtrooper to follow in his footsteps: leave the First Order, pick a name, and \u201cfind something worth fighting for.\u201d He\u2019s shown to have taken on Poe and Rose\u2019s wisdom from the previous two movies and grown as a result. Finn eventually becomes a revolutionary leader, galvanizing Stormtroopers and their prisoners in the fight against their oppressive overlords. This is a much better storyline than just yelling Rey\u2019s name from afar.<\/p>\n

After being very vocal about his creative disagreements with Rian Johnson over Luke\u2019s portrayal in The Last Jedi<\/em><\/a>, Mark Hamill said he was on the same page with Trevorrow about Luke\u2019s characterization in Duel of the Fates<\/em>. In the script, Luke\u2019s ghost travels all over the galaxy, imparting wisdom to Rey and Leia and haunting Kylo Ren, which works better than his glorified cameo appearance in The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>, which reveals that he stayed on his isolated island on Ahch-To even after becoming one with the Force.<\/p>\n

When The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> finally introduced the Knights of Ren<\/a>, they just stood around and looked cool. They didn\u2019t do anything until their final fight with Ben Solo, which had no impact because his relationship with his knights was never explored. For some reason, The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> introduced a bunch of new elements like Palpatine\u2019s resurrection and Jannah\u2019s relationship with Finn instead of paying off old ones like \u201cBroom Boy\u201d and, indeed, the Knights of Ren. In the Duel of the Fates<\/em> script, the Knights of Ren are all individually characterized (two of them work together, one is the wildcard etc.).<\/p>\n

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Unlike the previous two Star Wars<\/em> movies, Duel of the Fates<\/em> goes out of its way to show the extent of the First Order\u2019s rule. In the opening text crawl, it\u2019s established that Kylo Ren has cut off communications between systems. There are some dark scenes showing the First Order\u2019s iron-fisted rule over the galaxy, including a public execution with a lightsaber guillotine. The script also establishes that the First Order has set up shop on Coruscant, the city-planet featured heavily in the prequel trilogy<\/a>, where a lot of the script\u2019s action takes place.<\/p>\n

As everyone predicted when Kylo Ren was introduced as a knockoff Darth Vader in The Force Awakens<\/em>, he gets an empty, unearned redemption<\/a> at the end of The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>, despite The Last Jedi<\/em> giving him ample opportunities to return to the light side to hammer home the idea that, unlike Vader, this guy is irredeemable. In Trevorrow\u2019s Duel of the Fates<\/em> script, Kylo isn\u2019t redeemed. He comes close to the light but doesn\u2019t turn, which feels much more\u00a0genuine to his character.<\/p>\n

In Duel of the Fates<\/em>, the final duel is Rey vs. Ben, not Rey and Ben vs. zombie Palpatine. Rey vs. Ben is not only more visually engaging; it feels more like the culmination of the trilogy than the out-of-nowhere inclusion of a resurrected Palpatine. There\u2019s no toxic romantic tension between Rey and Ben<\/a> in this one, either. At the climax of the duel in Trevorrow\u2019s script, Rey has a more impactful and character-defining send-off than \u201cI am all the Jedi,\u201d which was cribbed from Endgame<\/em>\u2019s \u201cI am Iron Man\u201d moment. In Duel of the Fates<\/em>, she says, \u201cI will not deny my anger and I will not reject my love. I am the darkness and I am the light.\u201d Kylo replies, \u201cYou are nothing! You are no one!\u201d Rey simply says, \u201cNo one is no one.\u201d At the end of the duel, both Rey and Ben die, but in the afterlife, Yoda offers Rey the chance to come back to life and help the galaxy heal.<\/p>\n

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Trevorrow kept Rey\u2019s \u201cnobody\u201d identity intact in Duel of the Fates<\/em>, which works a lot better thematically (and it\u2019s more original to the Star Wars<\/em> saga) than randomly revealing her to be a Palpatine<\/a>. Rian Johnson\u2019s \u201cnobody\u201d revelation in The Last Jedi<\/em> was only disappointing because The Force Awakens<\/em> had needlessly set up her parentage as a major mystery, prompting dozens of fan theories.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more of a sense of finality in Duel of the Fates<\/em> than in The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>\u2019s weird \u201cRey Skywalker\u201d ending. Trevorrow has a medal-giving ceremony on Coruscant to honor all the sidelined characters who actually got to do something in this one. Rey comes back to life with a big scar across her face, ready to train the next generation of Jedi<\/a>. Finn and Rose establish a safe haven for Force-sensitive kids including \u201cBroom Boy.\u201d And R2-D2 shows Leia a 60-year memory bank chronicling the entire saga, which is a lot like how George Lucas intended to end the series, with Artoo passing on the story of the Skywalkers to future generations.<\/p>\n

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