I thought this would be a really fun story element, as well as explaining why and how she's able to do these remarkable things. 'Also, it allows her to be instantly simpatico with other droids. 1992) Alien Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997) Alien Quadrilogy DVD Box Set (2003) containing many interesting extras Alan Dean Foster (2014. 'That gives her the ability to learn remarkably quickly and also enhances her existing Force powers, and that's how she can throw boulders around at the end of Episode VIII,' Foster said. The author wanted to give Rey an undefined disease, which would have found part of her brain replaced with electronics, which could help accelerate her learning. 'How can I explain that away? And can I somehow tie that into the fact that she was abandoned on her planet on Jakku and bring those two things together?,' he asked.Īlan Dean Foster decided that Rey needed something extra to explain why she was becoming such a powerful Jedi so quickly. 'I never expected Disney to do anything with that.' In his treatment for The Rise of Skywalker, Foster wanted to explain why the untrained Rey (Daisy Ridley) 'suddenly has more Force powers than anybody' after visiting Ahch-To in The Last Jedi.

The Rise of Skywalker had already entered into production, so Alan Dean Foster was not able to get his ideas into the movie, though they probably would not have been included either way. I thought, ' How can this be retconned? How can we fix as much as possible from Episode VIII in a proposed Episode IX?' And I wrote a partial treatment for that, attempting in that storyline to explain a lot of the really silly things that happened in Episode VIII.' I thought it was a terrible Star Wars movie, and there's no need to go into why because every fan already has. And I went and saw it, and I thought it was a terrible film. ' Episode VIII was out, it was a done deal.

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