While the details of the imagined conspiracy are outlandish, the idea of a director’s cut of Rise of Skywalker is not, considering that many important scenes were cut and crucial plot details were changed. Abrams (and, ummm, Superman), provides a dramatic narrative with a clear enemy to blame, one with a malicious motivation, rather than a dull agenda to sell more toys and please shareholders. The existence of another cut, a superior cut, is a story that many disappointed fans want to believe nobody wants to feel like they’ve wasted their time and energy on a franchise that just wasn’t worth it.Īn insidious conspiracy, orchestrated to sabotage J.J. Not to mention, a single scene involving Force Ghosts could easily have been cut, if required, just like that quick same-sex kiss between two background characters that was censored for Singapore. It’s become quite popular to blame China for all the bad creative decisions made by Hollywood (especially after South Park memorably drew attention to the issue), but Star Wars is not a popular franchise in China, at all, and it seems incredibly unlikely that Disney would throw away an opportunity for more fan service to please the Chinese market. The post also claims that Rey was originally meant to be aided by the Force Ghosts of Star Wars past, rather than disembodied voices, and suggests that the restrictions of the Chinese market are what led to the decision to alter the scene. Abrams look bad and stop him from rebooting Superman for Warner Bros. After all, director’s cuts exist for a reason, although George Lucas himself proved that creatives are perfectly capable of sabotaging their own stories through incessant tweaking.īut the accusation of deliberate sabotage is where the theory turns conspiratorial the post goes on to claim that Disney (who own the Marvel Cinematic Universe), feel extremely threatened by the existence of Warner’s DC films, to the point that they would deliberately ruin Star Wars, one of their biggest and most profitable franchises, simply to make J.J. It might well be true that Abrams isn’t satisfied with the final edit of his film (and by all rights, he really shouldn’t be).
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