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Trailers (and some leaked images of the movie’s climactic moment) suggest several iconic lightsabers could appear in Episode IX, but what if Lucasfilm is lying to us? At least one fan thinks the studio could be playing Jedi mind tricks in the specific lightsabers shown, and it could reveal a huge twist about one of the biggest lightsabers in the Skywalker saga.
This fan theorizes that “Leia’s blue lightsaber is actually Luke’s green lightsaber that J.J. [Abrams] is keeping blue until the final cut of the film to keep it from getting leaked.” Leia having any lightsaber at all in The Rise of Skywalker is a big deal, as shown in the “Celebrate” TV spot (featured below). But is this the repaired version of the Skywalker lightsaber Rey has? Did Leia repair it for Rey? Or is this another saber altogether?
Leaked Image of Rey and Kylo Ren From The Rise of Skywalker Surfaces
Over the Labor Day weekend, Reddit user JediPraxis provided a of The Rise of Skywalker, citing multiple unnamed sources. and Jason Ward of the Making Star Wars fan site separately verified several elements of the leaked plot, citing their own sources.
Leaks of previous plot points from Star Wars movies like The Last Jedi have been , though were often wrong on minor points, or otherwise misinterpreted genuine leaked information. Fully verifying the plot of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will have to wait for the movie’s December 20 release date.
