
You can leave Episode VIII and say, “Well, now, Rey is content.

We also thought that Rey’s arc cannot be finished after Episode VIII. What were the ins and outs of that significant choice? What was the first story point that you fervently pitched to J.J.? So, it was a fairly quick schedule by standards of these movies because, of course, you have to build sets and design creatures, ships and costumes. We inherited the project in the fall of 2017, and then we were shooting by August of 2018. So, yeah, a couple months were just researching, but we were on a pretty tight schedule. I also wanted to get more familiar with the extended universe, such as the television shows and novels, in order to try and understand the landscape of the galaxy in a way that only the most hardcore fans would understand it. I know the original trilogy really well, but at the time, I didn’t know the prequel trilogy as well. Once you got the call from J.J., how much time did you have to reacclimate yourself with all things Star Wars before putting pen to whiteboard with J.J.?Ī couple months were spent just in pure research. He also discusses the Force power that Episode IX shares with The Mandalorian, Han and Kylo’s atonement scene and Rey’s trip to Tatooine as well as the big reveal that she is a Palpatine. In a conversation with THR, Terrio also reveals that he and Abrams “debated endlessly” about the moment that reveals Luke and Leia together as Force Ghosts. adores and respects Kelly and would have loved to keep every second he shot with her in the film.” had to make - especially given that I know for a fact that J.J. “But it’s the nature of the process that certain scenes fall out of the film, and I very much respect the difficulty of the decisions J.J. “There were a couple of scenes that we shot with Rose that I wish had made it to the final cut,” Terrio tells THR. (Terrio has said elsewhere that the “standard of photorealism” involving Carrie Fisher’s Leia was to blame in a couple instances.) Much to the regret of Terrio, a decent amount of Rose’s screen time fell on the cutting room floor. It was more like we were in dialogue with Rian by using what Luke did at the beginning of The Last Jedi to now say that history will not repeat itself and all these characters have grown.”Īfter the social media abuse that actor Kelly Marie Tran endured following The Last Jedi, fans wondered how Abrams and Terrio would incorporate her character, Rose Tico, into Episode IX’s narrative. “I think it would be a bad misreading to think that that was somehow me and J.J. At the end of The Last Jedi, Luke has changed,” Terrio tells The Hollywood Reporter.


“Those people who see it as a meta-argument between J.J.
