So I never read the Rise of Skywalker spoilers, but have noticed people saying things like "I guess reshoots changed X scene" etc.
Is someone able to give me a rundown of what all changed since the early leaks, or point me in the right direction?
I made a post a few days ago in the TROS OT about some of it:
Here's some stuff that MSW and JediPaxis had claimed which either got cut from the film, reshot, or never panned out:
-Kylo receives the Wayfinder on Mustafar from the Oracle, an alien spider sitting on a giant baby head statue in a bog.
-The film opens with Luke and Leia training, rather than the training flashback being inserted in the Ahch-To scene. It would have then cut to Leia training Rey.
-Lando was on Pasaana because his daughter was kidnapped there years ago while he was adventuring with Luke, and he ended up finding peace among the natives and stayed with them. Jannah is Lando's daughter. The First Order was specifically trying to ruin the lives of Rebel heroes.
-Kylo was to have a scene where he boarded the Falcon on Pasaana after it was captured.
-There was a version of Leia's death where Luke was present.
-Also MSW claimed at one point that the Han vision was triggered by Luke.
-The deal with the Final Order's signal tower thing would have been way more confusing because they were going to keep bouncing the signal around from ship to ship or something like that.
-Matt Smith was either a Sith cult loyalist or a Knight of Ren who got possessed by Sheev at the end of the movie OR he was the rejuvenated young Palpatine after absorbing Rey and Kylo's energy. Either way, he was replaced entirely with Ian McDiarmid.
-The whole ending on Exegol had a lot of conflicting information and possibly various versions were filmed. In one version the Jedi all appear as Force ghosts and help Rey against Sheev. In another version, it was just Luke and Leia who appeared as ghosts to fight. There was a claim that Luke came back to life. In one version, Rey didn't pass Ben a lightsaber through their bond and he just manhandled the Knights of Ren using just the Force. It became a meme in the spoiler community for a while that Ben was yeeted into the pit "never to be seen again", because in that version he simply died. There was no climb back out, no dead Rey who he resurrected, no kiss.
-Poe and Finn were also to be there on Tatooine with Rey at the end. In one version she saw a vision of her dead parents instead of Luke and Leia.
