‘Rise of Skywalker’ creators are ‘not screwing around’ with ending

The guy who created Cloverfield and directed The Force Awakens wants everyone to know he's trying really hard to not mess up the ending of the Star Wars saga as we know it. On Oct. 18, 2019, Entertainment Weekly reported that J.J. Abrams said outright that "we are not screwing around" when it comes to creating a legit ending for the nine-part "Skywalker saga" in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Do we trust him? Do we have a choice?

According to EW, J.J. Abrams knew how hard it was going to be to write The Rise of Skywalker (along with Justice League writer Chris Terrio) because "Endings are the thing that scare me the most." The director and co-writer of the movie also doesn't really think The Rise of Skywalker is supposed to be the ending to the existing new trilogy which started in 2015 with The Force Awakens, but instead, he views it as the end of a nine-part story, which begins with The Phantom Menace and goes all way through the classic movies everyone loves.

"This is about bringing this thing to a close… if years from now, someone's watching these movies, all nine of them, they're watching a story that is as cohesive as possible."

J.J. Abrams

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Whether or not Abrams pulls that off remains to be seen, of course. If you were a fan of Lost, now is probably not the time to remind yourself that Abrams was involved with the ending of that series, too. Then again, maybe because Abrams has dealt with so many controversial endings of big pop-culture properties, that he's the perfect guy to tackle the ending of Star Wars.

Or then again, maybe that's wishful thinking. Let's keep a little optimism here! Right?

In any case, we've now got J.J. Abrams's promise: he's not screwing around. Hopefully, the Force is listening.

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