Check out modified TIE Fighter that would have been in Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars movie

Colin Trevorrow never got to make Star Wars: Episode IX — Duel of the Fates, but some of his ideas still exist…and he has a 3D model of one.

Before the controversy over Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker, there was Duel of the Fates, the Star Wars movie Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow was going to make before he left the production in 2017 due to creative differences, and The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams took over.

“We were [in] art and writing [when I left Star Wars], it was a development thing,” he said during a panel yesterday at Comic-Con@Home.

"I guess the lesson from it is – I’ve been very fortunate in the films that I’ve directed, the path that I wanted to follow and the path that everyone involved wanted to follow was the same. It’s totally possible for two people to see two totally different paths through the woods. That was just an experience that obviously you can imagine, it can get to the point of being traumatic when there’s something that you care about that much and you’ve invested that much in it. But that’s one of the things that you accept when you take on any role in film, especially when you become a storyteller, that there are gonna be heartbreaks. There’s gonna be crushing disappointments and then there’s gonna be victories and hopefully they’ll balance out in the end."

We’ll never see what Trevorrow’s take on Star Wars would have looked like, but stuff like concept art does survive. During the panel, he also showed off a design for a modified TIE Fighter that would’ve been in the movie, a new beast he called a TIE Marauder:

Kind of an elongated version of the TIE series of spaceships, which the Empire (or the First Order) uses to route out those pesky rebels. I dig it.

It ends up that Trevorrow actually designed the ship with his son, which is very sweet. “[T]his is the only one in the world, and it’s an amazing memory for me when I got to do something that was an incredible experience from start to finish that I was able to make a Star Wars ship with my son,” he said.

You can watch the full panel, “Directors on Directing,” below:

You know, we also have the full script for Duel of the Fates. It’s not impossible that Disney could put something together for it at some point.

Comic-Con@Home continues today. What other goodies will drop?

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h/t Collider