In 1995, Nirvana’s Dave Grohl hired William Goldsmith as the drummer for his new band, The Foo Fighters. After spending endless hours and numerous takes recording their second album, “The Color and the Shape,” Grohl, being a drummer himself and dissatisfied with Goldsmith’s work, deleted all his parts and re-recorded (nearly) the entire album, playing all the drums himself. “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” appears to have been made in a similar fashion. 
Though Disney initially offered J.J. Abrams the opportunity to direct the new trilogy, he declined, only agreeing to take the reigns on the first of three planned movies. The second film, “The Last Jedi,” went to director Rian Johnson, who, with a different vision in mind, took the story in a new direction, sweeping aside a bevy of plot points initially set up by Abrams. For this final chapter, “The Rise of Skywalker,” Abrams returned as director and spent the film undoing and deleting most of Johnson’s work, while also trying to tie up as many loose ends as possible and finish the trilogy. (It’s a surprise he didn’t manage to change the title of the film to Star Wars: The Revenge of J.J. Abrams.)

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