Rise of Skywalker screenwriter: “I’ve never rewritten a film as much as this one”
Now that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has come home on digital and Blu-ray/DVD, more and more stories about the making of the final film in the Skywalker saga are starting to come out in the wash. For instance, the movie’s co-screenwriter, Chris Terrio, had some juicy things to say about how many rewrites the script through.
“I’ve never rewritten a film as much as this one,” Terrio says in the new book, Art Of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker. “It’s like a tide. There’s a new script every morning. But we just keep going at it and going at it, loosely thinking that it’s not good enough. It’s never good enough.”
We have heard a lot about abandoned ideas, scenes made up on the fly, and details being fleshed out in the novelization; clone-Palpatine, anyone? So I guess it’s not a shock that the script was in a lot of flux. “Luckily, the production team is so good that they can shift and adjust,” Terrio continued. “We’re course-correcting as we go – we’re trying things, and some things don’t work and some things aren’t ambitious enough.”
"Some things are overly ambitious. Some things are too dense. Some things are too simple. Some things are too nostalgic. Some things are too out-of-left-field. We’re finding our balance."
And I would argue that The Rise of Skywalker never quite found its balance, but I appreciate the hustle.
But The Rise of Skywalker is behind us. What about future Star Wars movies? For example, might we ever get a follow-up to Solo: A Star Wars Story, about the exploits of a young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich). A fan reached out to writer Jon Kasdan about the possibility of Solo 2, and he gave a nice honest answer.
While there are no current plans for new Star Wars films until at least 2021, Disney+ has plans for plenty of live-action shows. There’s The Mandalorian season 2, a Rogue One prequel series about Cassian Andor, an Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series, and a possible Ahsoka Tano show. So there’s plenty of Star Wars content coming!
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