Very interesting! Im gonna see what I can find.

I heard about this when it first leaked, but didn't have much interested in reading the script for a movie I would never get to see. I finally broke down and read it a few weeks ago. I intended to read it over the course of a few days, but once I started I couldn't stop, and finished it in a couple hours. Man, it was incredible. It was everything I had wanted Episode IX to be. Finn got his due, Rose got her due. Finn didn't just happen across a bunch of stormtrooper deserters and say "Oh hey, you too? It must have been the Force," - he was instrumental in convincing them to rise up. Rose got the be the hero we saw at the end of The Last Jedi - but this time for an entire movie, even upstaging Finn at points. Kylo became the ultimate villain instead of being shoehorned into Vader's old post as Sidious's puppet. His redemption arc became so different from Vader's. He wasn't simply rebelling against his Master to save someone he loved - he was fully in control, but he chose to spare Rey because he wanted to do the right thing in the end. We went to Coruscant again, and the Jedi Temple! And Mortis! And each of these places were meaningful beyond being just callbacks. The Jedi Temple was important as a marker of pre-Imperial times, both technologically and symbolically - it represented the galaxy that our heroes were fighting to restore. And instead of going to Exegol to witness the rebirth of the Sith, Kylo was drawn to Mortis because he wished to transcend the Sith and the Jedi - a thread that was set up in The Force Awakens and developed in The Last Jedi, but completely subverted when Palpatine became The Rise of Skywalker's villain. I can't say enough about how good this script was. Carrie Fisher's death would have meant some changes had to be made, but honestly this story could have remained intact - Lando's refusal would have been even more heartbreaking if Leia was dead, and his changing his mind would have been even more exuberant.

I'm gutted that they ditched this in favor of the hollow jumble of nostalgia-bait that The Rise of Skywalker became. Duel of the Fates would have been so much more meaningful, both as a sequel to The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, and as the end of the story that began in The Phantom Menace.