Colin Trevorrow's Scrapped STAR WARS: DUEL OF THE FATES Gets Fan-Made Comic Book Adaptation
Last year the story details for Colin Trevorrow’s version of Star Wars: Episode IX leaked online along with some concept art. His film would have been titled Star Wars: Duel of The Fates, and a lot of fans seemed to like what that version of the story had to offer.
Trevorrow and Lucasfilm ended up parting ways and J.J. Abrams came in to do his thing, which ended up being a lackluster conclusion for a lot of fans.
The script for Trevorrow’s film eventually found its way online, and it featured several different major story beats and new story arcs for Finn and Kylo Ren. That script is now being brought to life in comic book form thanks to fan and artist Andrew Winegarner. He shared that he’s "been working the past year on a comic book adaptation of Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars Episode 9 script Duel of the Fates." This is the tweet he shared:
On his website, where you can read the comic, he said:
Like many fans, I was disappointed with The Rise of Skywalker, a retread of Return of the Jedi that didn’t seem to follow the trajectory of the story set up in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. I was thrilled that Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly’s Duel of the Fates leaked, both the script and amazing pre-production artwork, which I incorporate into my adaptation. Having read DOTF I can state that I enjoy it much more than TROS. My hope is that seeing the script visually in my FREE webcomic adaptation will help people know what could/should have been. My biggest issue with TROS is that all of Rey's agency was completely taken away, both as a character (she’s now only important because of who she’s descended from) and as a woman (she no longer has her own power, she has “his power”).
DOTF is such an interesting piece of Star Wars lore. It is not canon and yet it not fan-fiction either, for it was the Episode IX set to be filmed for almost a year (Dec 16, 2016 - Sept 2017, when Trevorrow left the project). Furthermore, TROS is essentially an adaptation of DOTF, so much so that the WGA forced Lucasfilm to give Trevorrow & Connolly story credit for TROS. I have compiled a list of similarities between the two. Star Wars IS our new mythology. As such, multiple iterations of stories should be able to exist alongside each other.
The art for the comic is a bit rough, but it tells a clear story, and it’s still cool to see the story being brought to life like this by a fan. Check it out when you get a chance and tell us what you think.