One of the original villains inStar Wars 9has been revealed, thanks to newly leaked concept art.Colin Trevorrow’s original script for Episode IXreportedly leaked last week, giving fans an idea of what could have been had Trevorrow stuck on board. For manyStar Warsfans, the leaked script is proving to be superior, though this leaked concept art may prove otherwise. With that being said, it seems to validate the leak as a whole.
Colin Trevorrow’sStar Wars 9hadDuel of the Fates as its working titleand it is quite different fromThe Rise of Skywalker. While Trevorrow has said that he had no intention of bringing Emperor Palpatine back, he was going to have the iconic villain make a small appearance via hologram. This brings us to one of the original villains the director had in the movie, whose name is Tor Valum. Thanks to the leaked concept art, we now have a visual to go along with the initial script.
Tor Valum is a Sith Master, who trained Emperor Palpatine. In Colin Trevorrow’s version ofThe Rise of Skywalker, Kylo Ren was going to be on Mustafar, hunting for a holocron that Palpatine left for Darth Vader to find. This would have to have taken place before Vader killed Palpatine to save Luke Skywalker inReturn of the Jedi. In the holocron is a message to Vader to finish his training with Tor Valum in an effort to beat Luke Skywalker once and for all. In the script, the villain is described as “non-human and Lovecraftian,” which is certainly what is going on here, though not nearly as creepy as one would think.
Instead, theStar Wars 9concept art finds Tor Valum looking like a rather goofy spider perched on what appears to be an animal carcass. WhileStar Warsfans may have been intrigued as to whatTor Valumlooked like, this may shatter the illusion and make certain aspects fromThe Rise of Skywalkerseem almost genius. With that being said, this is only concept art and this very well could be a first pass design at the character who never even made it to the big screen.
It appears that the idea was to haveKylo Ren head to Mustafarright from the start, even when Colin Trevorrow was on board. While this is a great idea, it would have been nice if it was explicitly explained that this is where Kylo Ren was heading inThe Rise of Skywalker, instead of leaving fans to guess where the villain was off to. Regardless, there are now debates as to which story was better between J.J. Abrams and Trevorrow. Since everything is new, there are lot of people leaning towards Trevorrow’s. You can check out the leakedStar Wars 9concept art below, thanks to theReylo and Amy Twitteraccount.
