Saturday 21 March 2020

EPISODE IX: LEIA THE JEDI!


The moment we all wanted to see in a Star Wars film, as Leia Organa wields a lightsaber as part of the Jedi training given by her brother, and besting him in combat no less, at a time after Return of the Jedi, and seen in flashback form for The Rise of Skywalker, out on UK home entertainment next month. A worthwhile use of facial CGI manipulation using the late Carrie Fisher, as well as Mark Hamill, as they looked in ROTJ, with her important body stand-in during 2019 filming deservedly being Fisher's daughter herself, Billie Lourd.

Billie Lourd as Leia.

Clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1icdEOnDfk

Billie Lourd talks about Carrie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vRa6FBB7hk

And don't forget the all-new Expanded Edition novelisation of The Rise of Skywalker, by Rae Carson and published in the UK by Century, that has more on this scene and Luke's training of Leia.

Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Rise-Skywalker-Expanded/dp/1529124565/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37Q65S94HDKK9&keywords=star+wars+the+rise+of+skywalker+novelisation&qid=1584808136&sprefix=the+rise+of+skywalker+novelisation%2Caps%2C-1&sr=8-1

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