Carrie Fisher’s Brother Says Leia Would Have Been the ‘Big Payoff’ inThe Rise of Skywalker

With the ritual killing ofLuke Skywalker , Rey apparently stand alone as the last of the Jedi as we enrol Star warfare : The Rise of Skywalker . But , according to Todd Fisher , if not for his sister ’s tragic passing , there were plan for thereto be another .

Speaking toYahoorecently , Fisher discuss how The Rise of Skywalker is ultimatelyusing the unreleased materialshot for The Force Awakens to give General Leia one final excursion , in tribute to thedearly drop actress , who sadly choke off in previous 2016 . “ They had eight minutes of footage , ” Fisher order of his baby ’s role in the movie . “ They grabbed every frame and psychoanalyze it … and then repeal - engineered it and [ got ] it into the story the right path . It ’s kind of witching . ”

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There is another… there always has been.

There is another… there always has been.Image: Lucasfilm

But it ’s what Fisher had to say of his baby ’s potential persona in The Rise of Skywalker that is interesting — with Yahoo alleging Leia “ was going to go forth as a full - fledge Jedi warrior , double-dyed with her very own lightsaber . That ’s harmonize to no less an authority than Fisher ’s real - sprightliness brother , Todd Fisher ”

“ She was going to be the big payoff in this last film and that was what the design was prior to her exiting . She was going to be the last Jedi , so to speak … ” Fisher tell Yahoo . “ mass used to say to me , ‘ Why is it that Carrie never get a lightsaber and chop up up some forged guys,’ … Obi - Wan , when he was in his prime , was Carrie ’s age . ”

This is n’t the first time that Todd Fisher has suggested detail about what his sister ’s office in the motion picture could have been in the backwash of her expiry — it ’s alsofar from the first timesince Carrie Fisher ’s passing that we ’ve discover there were big plan for Leia ’s spark in the 9th and net entry in the Skywalker saga . But it ’s the first we ’ve really heard of Leia stepping away from her use as a military drawing card of the Resistance and more openly embracing the power of the Force that we ’ve long known she ’s wield — even before she squall on it tosave her lifeout in the vacuum of blank space in The Last Jedi .

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The primal thrill of the estimate of Leia wielding her own lightsaber is exciting to contemplate , especially compounded by the lamentable idea that it ’s not hap because of Fisher ’s untimely transcend . But it ’s of import to remember as well that it ’s not the weapon that make someone a Jedi — a lesson she , her chum , Rey , and many more would experience . Leia would never have become the last , or one of the last , Jedi . She already was one , like her father and pal before her , justwithout the titleandall the baggagethe establishment that isthe Jedi Orderbrings with it .

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We might not see Leia take up the arms of a Jedi Knight in The Rise of Skywalker . But the Force will be with her , nonetheless . Always has been , always will be .

William Duplessie