Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
The first spoken Word of God inStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalkerhas been revealed as“At ” . Walt Disney and companyhave been notoriously tip - lippedregarding the newest adventure in a galaxy far , far away . However , that has n’t stopped anyone and everyone from trying to pry spoiler / details from its filmmaker and stars . Arguably , no one has to exercise greater delicacy than its carbon monoxide gas - author and director , J.J. Abrams .
Having helmed ( and created)Lost , two of the rebootedStar Trekfilms , and now two of the newestStar Warsfilms , Abrams sleep together how to give fans a slight but not enough . Abrams did this when he come out onJimmy Kimmel Liveto discussStar war : The Force Awakensin 2015 ; Kimmel ask Abrams what the first word speak in the subsequence trilogy would be - the world received the word“This ” . That word end up being speak by Lor San Tekka when he separate Poe Dameron that“This will begin to make things right ” . It was n’t much of a pillager at the prison term , but fans were still excited to receive a scintilla of data that could work into something memorable .
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Stephen Colbert stole a Sir Frederick Handley Page out of Kimmel ’s leger this week when he asked Abrams a standardized question onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbertaboutthe completedStar war : The Rise of Skywalker . When ask what the first speak word in the upcoming film would be Abrams gave the world:“At ” . That Holy Scripture , like“This ” , exists outside of the franchise ’s opening crawl and was given without the welfare of context . While it basically means nothing to us now , eventually , it will be part of a time immortalized inStar Warshistory . Watch a time from Colbert ’s interview below .
Star war : A New Hopeopened by introducing us to the iconic mating of R2 - D2 and C-3PO , the first word being spoken by the latter:“Did ” . That word became“Did you take heed that ? They shut down the master nuclear reactor ” . The next film , The Empire Strikes Backbegan with Luke saying“Echo”-“Echo Three to Echo Seven . Han , sure-enough buddy , do you study me?“Return of the Jedibegan with“Command”,The Phantom Menacewith“Captain”,Attack of the Cloneswith“Senator”,Revenge of the Sithwith“Lock ” , andThe Last Jediwith“We’re " . If you know those films , there ’s a good fortune you love the words , sentences , and moments .
When interview Abrams , Colbert ’s had a theory about what momentThe Rise of Skywalker’s“At”could symbolise . He speculated that it would be spoken by a new character who is setting up the picture in a voice - over . In that same interview , Abrams talked about something the late Carrie Fischer wrote in her book , The Princess Diarist , thanking Abrams for“working with her twice ” . unluckily , Fischer never operate with Abrams a second time ( nor did she cognize he would be directingThe Rise of Skywalker ) . Her ominous words are indicative of a film that will undoubtedly take a plethora of iconic words address at its commencement , middle , and destruction . While it ’s unlikely that the newest plastic film ’s first countersign will be spoken by Fischer , thanks to remnant footage fromStar Wars : The Force Awakens , her inclusion sets us all up for what we hope will be a satisfying finis .
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