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Did Rian Johnson have Snoke killed off in The Last Jedi in order to...

posted 4 years ago by TMC-4 (19412)
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to prevent the climax of the trilogy being a converted Kylo Ren and Rey teaming up to defeat Snoke a la Luke and Vader versus Palpatine. But instead JJ Abrams just went back to the same well and replaced Snoke with Palpatine.

[–] Cristianos (266) 4 years ago

Johnson had Kylo Ren kill Snoke because he found his character more interesting than Snoke who was basically the same character as Palpatine. It seemed like the idea was that Kylo Ren would be the main villain for the next film, and we know Colin Trevorrow's version had Kylo Ren become redeemed.