'Star Wars' fans are already crying over seeing their princess one last time
Help us, Carrie Fisher. You're our only hope.
The recent cast announcement for Star Wars Episode IX contained a wonderful surprise: Carrie Fisher will reprise her role as Princess-turned-General Leia Organa one last time, despite the fact that she died in 2016. Fans are weeping in both mourning and celebration at the prospect of once again seeing the legend who made "Princess" synonymous with "unstoppable badass."
Director J.J. Abrams made it clear that Fisher's reappearance, which is possible thanks to unused footage from The Force Awakens, comes with the explicit blessing of her daughter, Billie Lourd.
“We desperately loved Carrie Fisher,” Abrams said in a statement. “Finding a truly satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga without her eluded us. We were never going to recast, or use a CG character."
Fans are preparing for all the feels.
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Back in April, Fisher's brother Todd had said that his late sister would make an appearance in Episode IX -- before Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy shot down this assertion.
It appears Todd was right in the end, though, and he credits the Episode VII and Episode IX director for that. "J.J. [Abrams] really made this happen," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Fans have also taken this news as an opportunity to posthumously crown Fisher as the ultimate queen of Big Dick Energy -- a title she would have undoubtedly accepted with grace.
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Carrie Fisher tragically departed from our world, and there's no denying that the earth lost one of its best humans that day. But as Star Wars fans have shown, she doesn't just live on in our hearts. She continues to shine as the brightest star in our sky.
You'll be able to see General Organa yourself in theaters when Episode IX hits theaters on Dec. 20, 2019.
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Jess is an LA-based culture critic who covers intimacy in the digital age, from sex and relationship to weed and all media (tv, games, film, the web). Previously associate editor at Kill Screen, you can also find her words on Vice, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Vox, and others. She is a Brazilian-Swiss American immigrant with a love for all things weird and magical.
