Questions tagged [the-rise-of-skywalker]
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019, ninth movie produced) The Sith return to build a new Empire under Darth Sidious, who seeks to make Rey a Sith. Use with the [star-wars] tag.
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Is/was General Leia Organa expected to be in the next episodes (VIII and IX) of Star Wars?
With the death of Carrie Fisher, does it have any impact on the next Star Wars films, episodes VIII and IX? Was she slated to be on 8-9? Has principal photography started with her on camera?
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How did Sir Alec Guinness' voice appear in The Rise of Skywalker?
Towards the end of The Rise of Skywalker, in the final confrontation scene between
Rey hears the voices of many previous Jedi. This question tells us that Alec Guinness is credited with one of the ...
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Who is the guy in the gunner's seat of the Millennium Falcon near the end of The Rise of Skywalker?
You see him for a split second in the final scene with the Final Order and he has kind of a white beard. I can't find any reference online except Nien Nunb from ROJ.
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How did Finn learn to understand Chewie so quickly?
When Finn meets Chewie, he's astounded that Han can understand him - and I can see where he's coming from: it all sounds the same to someone who didn't grow up with those phonemes, i.e. we can't tell ...
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When was Rey’s lineage decided?
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker features a fairly dramatic plot twist, namely that
which finally answers the persistent question of her lineage.
At which point during the development of ...
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Why didn't Palpatine do what he threatened to do?
At the end of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Palpatine tells Rey...
Rey decides...
So then why didn't he possess her after all?
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Who was Rey's grandmother?
In Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker we learn that Rey's grandfather was
Who was the grandmother?
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Has Rey's new lightsaber been seen before in canon or legends?
The new Rise of Skywalker trailer has Rey (or someone who looks an awful lot like her) wielding a new double lightsaber, but now with action deploy mechanism! (someone in marketing has to be giddy). ...
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How did Rey find this structure intact?
At the end of Rise of Skywalker, Rey revisits a location we haven't seen since Episode IV,
which had previously been attacked. Obviously, the attack is long past, and any remains were long removed.
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Was Snoke an individual or a puppet?
In The Rise of Skywalker, we see that
Snoke's role in the sequel trilogy seems to be to turn Ren to the Dark side and train him as a Sith, even getting himself killed by his apprentice like in the ...
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What was Finn going to tell Rey?
As Rey and Finn are sinking into the desert, Finn shouts that he has something he wanted to tell Rey, but they are swallowed before he can say it.
Later, Poe asks Finn what he was going to say, but ...
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Why did the Knights of Ren attack their leader?
At the end of The Rise of Skywalker, when Kylo Ren shows up at the Sith Temple on Exegol, he is attacked by the Knights of Ren. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. As far as I'm aware, the Knights ...
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How did Rey repair the Skywalker lightsaber?
In The Last Jedi Rey and Kylo have a tug of war over the old Skywalker lightsaber, was Anakin's, then Luke's (who lost it), then Maz gave it Rey etc.
However, in The ...
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How could this Star Wars character have survived their apparent death?
Spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker:
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How were the scenes featuring Princess Leia in The Rise of Skywalker filmed?
As we know, our beloved princess, Carrie Fisher, died before the script for The Rise of Skywalker was even finished. According to this answer, digitally recreating her image was out of the question.
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