Rose Tico fans can claim a victory, well, sort of. An alleged summary of the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker script has emerged on YouTube from a former professional screenplay reader named Robert Burnett. This supposed version of the script is said to have been written during Colin Trevorrow's time in the director's chair, before he lost his job in 2017 and the entire project started over with The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams back at the helm. This script, with the working title The Duel of the Fates, appears to be a profoundly different movie from the one we received in December 2019, though several of the individual concepts are similar enough that they might have been repurposed for The Rise of Skywalker. The story itself, however, is entirely different, and Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico is at its core.
Fans of Rose, who was introduced in The Last Jedi, have been upset by how The Rise of Skywalker minimized her presence and insulted the character, on top of the real-life harassment Tran experienced on social media because of her role. They can perhaps find some bittersweet comfort in the possibility that, somewhere along the line, someone might have cared about Rose. However, we can't 100% guarantee that the alleged script described in the video is genuine. Burnett explains straight away that he won't provide proof of the script beyond cropped images of the title page and the original narration crawl, or any detail as to how he got a hold of it, but if you want to imagine this is legit, hey, go for it.
Let's take a look at the version of Rose Tico in The Rise of Skywalker that might have been.
This alleged original Rise of Skywalker script actually opens on Rose Tico and BB-8. A good chunk of the first act has her attempting, along with Finn, Poe, and eventually Rey, to sabotage the transportation of ore used for building Star Destroyers at the Kuat Shipyards. Long story short, the sabotage goes very poorly for our heroes, but with luck, they escape (are you ready for this?) by jacking an entire freaking Star Destroyer off the lot and peeling out of the shipyards at lightspeed. All the while, Rose is described as being front and center, doing her best to reorganize when plans A, B, and Z all fail.
There are two major teams performing missions in this alleged script: Rey, Poe, and Chewbacca take off on their own to do their half, while Rose, Finn, C3PO, and R2-D2 depart for Coruscant to try a desperate gamble. In trying to snuff out the Resistance for good, the First Order has choked off all intersystem communication at its source. Rey learns from the texts she picked up in The Last Jedi, however, that the Jedi Temple houses a giant kyber crystal that the Old Republic used thousands of years ago as a communication system the First Order doesn't have the means to control. Lighting this ancient beacon is the last hope of the Resistance to gather allies, and Rose takes point on this do-or-die mission. Keep watching the video to see that Rose Tico allegedly had an important role in Rise of Skywalker!
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