It's Taken Me Five Years To Realize Rise Of Skywalker's Final Scene Riffed On A 48-Year-Old Deleted Scene From A New Hope
The final scene ofStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerseemingly references an obscure deleted scene from 1977’sStar Wars. The finale of the modern canon’s sequel trilogy features many references, large and small, to the rest of theStar Warsfranchise, from previous saga movies to major storylines from the originalLegends continuity. While the majority of these references are quite overt, one of the last callbacks in the film seems surprisingly subtle. The Rise of Skywalkerends with Rey traveling to the Lars homestead on Tatooine and burying the lightsabers of Anakin Skywalker and Leia Organa....