See the creepy Rise of Skywalker villain who didn’t make the final cut

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is about a month old at this point, but we’re still debating what it was, and what it could have been. It’s a movie that went through a lot of changes during production. Originally, J.J. Abrams wasn’t even the director — that job originally went to Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow, who laid out some of his ideas before Abrams was brought back in to finish the trilogy he started with The Force Awakens. You can read about Trevorrow’s original script, which took the story in a very different direction compared to what we got.

One of the big differences in Trevorrow’s script: while Emperor Palpatine dpes not return from the dead, Kylo Ren does seek out and train under Palpatine’s old Sith Master, a 7,000-year-old, “very Lovecraftian” alien named Tor Valum. Basically, he sounds like Sith Yoda. What might that have looked like?

Well, we now have a possible idea, thanks to Twitter’s own @JadoreReyBen posting pictures from the upcoming book The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Take a look at what Tor Valum may have looked like below:

Now, to be fair, some fans have speculated that we’re not looking at Tor Valum here, but rather a character from one of Abrams’ early drafts called the Oracle, who would have resided on Mustafar. But either way, this plotline would have involved Kylo Ren consulting with a weird, many-legged Lovecraft-looking thing.

Personally, I’m into it. If nothing else, think of all the adorable “Baby Tor Valum” merch we missed out on.

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