(ALTERNATE VERSION) Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Ascendant ('Rey Nobody') Large 1080p

Included here is an alternate version of ’The Rise of Skywalker - Ascendant’ in which Rey’s family connection to Palpatine is removed.

This version features subtitles, though does not feature a commentary track or alternate language dubs.

In the editor’s opinion, this version does not hold up as seamlessly as the default version of ‘Ascendant,’ although it feels compelling enough to be finished and made available alongside it. Please refer to the documentation for Ascendant for full details and credit to contributors.

Here are the changes for this alternate ‘Rey Nobody’ version, as they differ from the regular version of Ascendant:

- The film’s title in the opening crawl uses the font used in the prequels and TLJ, rather than the one used in TFA and TROS, as a cheeky nod to following after TLJ’s establishment of ‘Rey Nobody’
- The original placement of the ‘Force essence transfer’ exposition from Palpatine is moved back to late in the film, in order to maintain a logic to Kylo Ren’s actions in this version
- Removed dialogue about Rey’s mysterious identify in the opening Exegol sequence
- Rey’s parents are removed from her vision while training, replaced with hints at her fear of inner darkness as established in TFA and TLJ
- Removed dialogue that establishes Rey has familiarity with Ochi’s ship
- When Rey lashes out with Force lightning, it is now yellow both to distance herself from Palpatine (in movie parlance; I realize we’ve seen Count Dooku use it as well) and to tie into embracing what she feared as illustrated by her yellow lightsaber at the end of the film
- Restructured and switched up dialogue throughout the duel between Rey and Kylo Ren on board the Star Destroyer, moving a few lines from an earlier scene (work largely completed by Spence)
- Restructured and switched up dialogue during the hangar scene to remove Rey as a Palpatine and replace it with fear that she will take the Sith throne (work largely completed by Spence)
- Removed Rey reflecting on the deaths of her parents (work largely completed by Spence)
- Restructured the scenes surrounding the Ach-To sequence to work around the lack of a dramatic punch about Rey and Exegol
- Removed dialogue about Rey being a Palpatine from her conversation with Luke
- Removed various snippets of dialogue from Palpatine during the fim’s climax that relate to their shared lineage