Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is going to be a huge movie for obvious reasons, being the finale to this current trilogy and supposedly finishing the Skywalker Saga. Since there's official confirmation on the return of Emperor Palpatine and Luke Skywalker, fans have been wondering about who else can return. There had been mass speculation about Hayden Christensen reprising his role as Anakin Skywalker from the prequels but nothing has been confirmed.
However, Disney has been semi-spoiling people by pulling off weird stunts. In fact, people wouldn't have suspected Christensen returning as much if it weren't for all the odd things Disney has been pulling. First, they pulled Christensen from a convention months ago and now they're deleting pictures of the actor having a good time in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
Disney deleted this tweet shortly after posting. Hayden Natalie Adam and Daisy all seem to be in LA for photo shoot. Anakin in TROS proof?
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Come on Disney, this is worse than showing him in your trailers. Okay, not really but this is still awfully suspicious behavior.
Now, this doesn't guarantee that Christensen will be appearing in The Rise of Skywalker but it does add fuel to the fire. It would be fitting since the movie is named after him, is expected to pay tribute to Return of the Jedi, and could be a sign of the Disney Star Wars canon embracing the prequels. To their credit, the prequels were not erased from canon but the recent movies did very little to give them any love.
In Disney's defense, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones are garbage.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker comes out on December 20. There's a small chance of Hayden Christensen appearing.
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