Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Almost Placed Palpatine On A Different Planet

“Exegol doesn’t seem on any star chart. However legend describes it because the hidden world of the Sith.”

Nor did it seem on any of our radars, as earlier than Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker launched into theaters, Exegol was an unknown entity – a complete thriller positioned in the dead of night recesses of area.

It later grew to become the hiding place of Darth Sidious (“the lifeless converse!”), as J.J. Abrams and Co. sought about resurrecting the franchise’s huge dangerous and his so-called Closing Order. This grandiose plan to destabilize the Jedi emerged from the shadows of Exegol, however had issues panned out otherwise, Emperor Palpatine would’ve been stationed on the forgotten, ash-covered world of Coruscant when Episode IX kicked off.

That’s in accordance with writer Phil Szostak, who penned The Artwork of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (h/t ScreenRant), who traced Kylo’s journey to seek out Palpatine in an early draft of Episode IX.

As an alternative of discovering his approach to Exegol, within the early November 2017 model of The Rise of Skywalker story, Kylo Ren as an alternative takes his shuttle to a desolate, ash-covered Coruscant, the once-bustling metropolis streets now overrun by large wolves. Contained in the deserted Jedi Temple, Kylo takes a central elevator right down to the temple’s deepest degree.

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Inserting Palpatine inside the ruins of the Galactic Republic would have been a becoming approach to tie issues along with the Prequel Trilogy, however J.J. Abrams and Episode IX co-writer Chris Terrio finally determined in opposition to it, as an alternative selecting to have Darth Sidious enact his evil plan from the depths of Exegol.

It proved to be the ultimate battleground for the Resistance, too, after Lando Calrissian (and Chewie!) assembled an enormous fleet to take down the Star Destroyers and successfully sink Palpatine’s plan earlier than it took flight. Fairly actually, because it have been.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now accessible to stream through Disney+, finishing the complete nine-part Skywalker Saga. However for those who’ve had sufficient of Skywalkers and Palpatines, there’s all the time The Mandalorian, which comprises maybe the last word Star Wars crowd-pleaser in Child Yoda.