having a convo with my friend who works in the film industry who I haven’t spoken to since like last November and boy does he have tea on TROS

Points of note:
-he knows a stuntwoman doubling for Daisy who was still shooting NOVEMBER 7
-most of the issues were with the studio demanding reshoots, not JJ or Terrio
-Matt Smith was cast as the original villain. This villain was not a clone of Palpatine but an OC, and was

cut when Bob Iger demanded to bring Palpatine back because “the audience won’t understand who this guy is”
-every actor hated how the movie turned out

-Trevorrow was not told what the plot of TLJ even was when they told him six months before the film came out to start working on his script, so he had to rewrite that
- Disney was, as we all suspected, paying attention to the negative reactions to tlj and thoug tros would fix it

He’s also 100% sure that the promised merchandise is all stuff that was licensed and made relating to the first version of the film that originally was signed off on, which is why p much all we have are Knights of Ren, stormtroopers, and Sith Troopers

The knights of Ren were supposed to have more backstory and Jj specifically went to the trouble of casting all the OG stunt guys from the first film, only to have the studio cut their backstories

Pertaining to Ben, he says that the last fight scene was being reworked constantly and he doesn’t think anyone knows for sure WHAT was supposed to happen to him. He says if anyone is going to drop facts about it it’ll be terrio

Other stuff: both Daisy and Adam did almost all their own stunts bar the impact-into-things shots, all the stunt people were very proud of how dedicated they were

He says Adam is extremely dedicated to his craft and likely won’t talk about TROS to any media but Oscar and John are very glad to be out of the studio imposed limitations and constant tug of war

also, what they shot for the first version of the film was about 40% scrapped and reshot, so no "original version" exists, and we won't get it a la Snyder Cut because disney, unlike warner bros, will never admit they made a mistake with this billion dollar franchise

and PLEASE don't take my comment about adam oscar and john to mean that they aren't as dedicated. they all are! but they were all told they'd be on one specific kind of project and ended up being dragged through the wringer for months and i think they're fully within their rights

to express their dissatisfaction w disney outright as they please now that their contracts are up

and y'all dont have to believe me if you don't wanna, i have known this man for years and can confirm he has worked on multiple films in the industry firsthand. just wanted ta share his comments! that's all