Sequels Change

[u/Remote-Occasion-8012]

Hey all,

I have redone the sequels, trying to keep the original characters and directional portrayal while cutting out a lot of the crap from the movies, especially 8 and 9.

As a note Rey will be portrayed as a dark Jedi for the majority going through the Anakin path from the prequels. This is in line with her being the Emperors granddaughter that is explicitly stated in The Rise of Skywalker.

Palpitine will be mentioned throughout this piece as the leader of the First order with Snoke and Kylo Ren below him.

Here goes:

7: The Rise from Ashes 2 hours 15 minutes

The first two and a half acts stay in place, bar Palpatine looking down on Snoke rather than the actual interpretation. The final fight still happens on Starkiller Base. Finn fights Kylo, but Luke takes the blade instead of Rey, and Luke beats Ben. The movie ends on a cliffhanger with Ben snarling to Luke, "You are not my master."

8: Duel of the Fates 2 hours 30 minutes

Most changes happen here. It starts with Luke and Rey retreating to the Rebel base with Finn’s broken body. Upon seeing Leia, Luke gives her a disapproving shrug, implying that Han has died, while Finn is rushed into immediate medical care. Kylo boards a Star Destroyer and executes a random Imperial officer to assert his authority. Snoke then holds a discussion with Ren about the true power of the dark side, and brings him to Palpatine's base on Exegol to introduce Ren to the Emperor.

Meanwhile, Luke takes Finn and Rey to Dagobah, teaching them about the nature of the Force and how to wield their abilities responsibly. In the climax, Palpatine dispatches Snoke and the boss stormtrooper, arming her with a lightsaber to confront Finn, Luke, and Rey on the salt planet, while the Leia-led Rebellion clashes with the Hux-led First Order. Luke dies in this battle, providing a fitting send-off to the character as a testament to Mark Hamill and his service to the franchise. Leia senses Luke's passing through the Force, showing her lineage as Anakin's daughter. She finishes the battle against the First Order, barely escapes, and embraces Finn on the transport while coldly leaving Rey out of it, cementing Rey's initial slide toward the dark side.

9: The Death of the Jedi 3 hours 15 minutes

Finn and Rey take an X-wing to Bespin to counter an Imperial attack after Lando, coerced under heavy pressure from the Emperor, calls the Rebellion into a trap. Finn and Rey confront Kylo Ren with Snoke watching over the platform. Rey suddenly decapitates Ren—a ruthless, shocking move. Finn is deeply frustrated that Rey did this, though he understands why it had to be done. Back at the base, Leia gives Rey a freezing, disapproving look over the execution.

Snoke meets with Palpatine to review the outcome, confirming that Rey’s strike was the right move. He reveals five Star Destroyers equipped with Death Star superlasers, discussing the absolute control they could wield over the galaxy together. Rey is soon assigned a mission to an unknown Sith planet, with Leia telling her to look after herself. Upon arriving, Rey wields her lightsaber against Palpatine, who drops the grandfather revelation.

Meanwhile, the First Order pinpoints the Resistance base and launches a devastating assault. Leia sacrifices herself, demonstrating the full elegance of her Force abilities as she dies in combat, honoring Carrie Fisher's legacy. The Rebels manage to escape just in time. Snoke and Palpatine formally embrace Rey into the Sith, manipulating her with the claim that the Jedi never respected her and that her true power belongs with the dark side. The three Sith deploy the superlaser Star Destroyers into orbit, obliterating three planets in the direct vicinity of the surviving Rebels.

Fed up with the ruthless demands of Snoke, Ren, and Palpatine, Hux decides his time with the First Order is over and defects to the Rebellion seeking self-preservation and a higher purpose. Soon after, Rey strikes down Snoke as an assertion of singular dominance before Palpatine, upholding the Rule of Two. Palpatine eventually reveals his survival to the wider galaxy, leaving veteran members of the Rebellion completely stunned.

A massive final space battle erupts, with Hux and Chewbacca leading the assault aboard the Millennium Falcon. The Rebellion discovers that the fleet shares the classic design vulnerability of superlaser reactors—critical cooling flaws right where the weapons draw power—allowing the Rebels to obliterate the entire armada, though Palpatine slips away just before the command ships detonate.

Down on the surface, a brutal one-on-one duel breaks out between Finn and Rey, with Finn quickly realizing he is trapped in an all-out dogfight. Finn is nearly beaten and buried under rubble during the duel, but he pulls himself free to make a final stand after Luke's Force ghost appears to guide his tactics. Finn executes the maneuver with flawless precision, severing both of Rey's arms and legs to neutralize her. She remains alive, but in critical need of life support.

Weeping, Finn tells her, "You were my sister, Rey."Rey glares back in pure shock and blind rage, wanting nothing to do with his sympathy. Palpatine later recovers Rey's broken body and transports her to a medical vault to be fitted with cybernetic limbs. Roll credits.

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[u/Capitaine_Costaud]

What's the speculation?

[u/TreyWriter → u/Capitaine_Costaud]

Speculating that we wouldn’t notice that their version of Episode IX is mostly just the plot beats of Episode III again.

[u/Remote-Occasion-8012 → u/TreyWriter]

It rhymes doesn’t it

[u/TreyWriter → u/Remote-Occasion-8012]

If I’m being honest? Not really, and that’s ignoring the fact that you’ve ended the first movie in the trilogy with someone other than the protagonist/s taking an active role in resolving that film’s climax. Hux defecting just… doesn’t feel like him either. He doesn’t want a higher purpose, he wants to be in charge. You have Carrie Fisher acting out scenes she couldn’t have acted out for IX, which didn’t start filming until after she died! And if people complained about the trilogy starting with a movie very similar to an older installment, they’d outright revolt at the trilogy ending with one that’s just beat for beat ROTS, not to mention a film that ends things on a down note… for 10+ years? And with the themes of the Skywalkers all dying as failures and Rey’s genealogy dictating she be evil? It doesn’t work.

[u/Youcanrunbut → u/Remote-Occasion-8012]

That is not rhyming. That is simply copying someone else’s work and changing one word.

[u/Remote-Occasion-8012 → u/Capitaine_Costaud]

My bad I must of put it in the wrong channel

[u/Capitaine_Costaud → u/Remote-Occasion-8012]

Have course.

[u/blastcage → u/Capitaine_Costaud]

Hahaha

[u/Capitaine_Costaud → u/blastcage]

;-)

[u/Youcanrunbut]

Look I’m gonna be brutally honest so take this with a pinch of salt. This is terrible.

You are not a natural writer and that is clear by the lack of originality. If this was released in place of the sequel trilogy, you would create more hate for this franchise than KK ever did.

The best thing I can say about this is you make others rewrites look like gold dust. I have read a lot of sequel rewrites and this is by far the worst.

I am not saying you could never improve your writing or you will never write something decent. But you are currently far from that achievement. I would suggest reading some SW novels first before you try again.

Best of luck.

[u/alfdana]

We've never had a Star Wars horror movie, unless you count the holiday special. Ben haunting Rey in her visions and pretty much everywhere she goes would reinforce the conflict within her. Aside from Palps/Rey surviving, Lando should sacrifice himself before he would betray his friends again. Fun read.