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So now we know that Smith was at one point going to be in The Rise of Skywalker, although his involvement never moved past “a couple of meetings to talk about it.” The next question is: who was he going to play?

“I think the thing they were thinking of before…eventually, the part became obsolete and they didn’t need it. That means a lot of ideas got left on the cutting room floor, including a role for Doctor Who veteran Matt Smith. “We were close to being in it, but it never quite happened,” Smith recently said on MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. “We’re course-correcting as we go - we’re trying things, and some things don’t work and some things aren’t ambitious enough. Abrams came on board after Rian Johnson directed the previous Star Warsmovie, The Last Jedi, and set about writing a script that reversed or half-reversed a lot of the decisions made in that film. “I’ve never rewritten a film as much as this one,” co-screenwriter Chris Terrio said at the time.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was a famously messy movie.