Is This How Rey Is Connected To Palpatine In Rise Of Skywalker?

Will the Skywalker Saga end by finally putting to rest questions over a certain character's parentage? According to some fresh rumors posted on the fan site Making Star Wars, there's a chance that The Rise of Skywalker will do just that.

Warning: These are unsubstantiated rumors attributed to anonymous sources, so take them with a grain of salt, perhaps washed down with some green milk. In other words: potential spoilers ahead!

Making Star Wars editor-in-chief Jason Ward claims that The Rise of Skywalker takes audiences to an Endor-like tree-covered planet immediately after the opening crawl. There, it's said that a pair of Jedi wearing white helmets are seen dueling, a green lightsaber against a blue lightsaber. It's then revealed that the two Jedi are Luke and Leia, appearing as the younger versions of themselves as seen in Return of the Jedi.

Rumor has it that this flashback sequence not only demonstrates how Leia was able to summon the Force and save herself from certain death in space in The Last Jedi, but also sets up a plot in which Leia trains Rey throughout The Rise of Skywalker, which leads Rey to make an important decision following a major revelation: she's a member of the Palpatine family.

Yep: rumor has it that Rey is a descendant of Emperor Palpatine, the villain otherwise known as Darth Sidious who destroyed the Jedi Order, led the Galactic Empire, and was a mentor to Darth Vader. Apparently, Rey discovers she's a Palpatine and decides to reject her parentage, renaming herself as a Skywalker at the end of the film, thus explaining why the movie is titled The Rise of Skywalker.

As far as rumors go, this one doesn't set off a whole lot of alarms. Rey's parentage has always been a point of contention amongst fans, most of whom aren't satisfied with the idea presented by Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi: that Rey's mother and father were nobodies, and alcoholics, to boot.

The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson has said that the mystery of Rey's parentage hasn't been entirely resolved, revealing in January 2018 that "anything's still open" since he isn't involved with The Rise of Skywalker. It was reported in April 2018 that J.J. Abrams, who wrote and directed The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker, actually had a different plan for Rey's identity than the one presented in The Last Jedi. Keep watching the video to see if this is this how Rey is connected to Palpatine in Rise of Skywalker?

#RiseOfSkywalker #EmperorPalpatine