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Which paths through the galaxywerenttaken?

(Its out on Blu-ray April 4.)

Star Wars

Tuesdays subject is the much grimmer ending that almost faced another important character.

Vader is in the movie as much as he always was.

He only had two things in the film.

The rampage where [Vader] murdered everybody wasnt me.

I had pictured early on Vader murdering all these Rebel soldiers but I never wrote it into the script.

Its actually my favorite thing in the film.

He did have a bonus Vader scene near the end that ended up being dropped from the storyline.

But heres how he would have ended a major character in an abandoned sequence considered for the films finale.

They tore him out of the rubble and they brought him back, Whitta says.

When theyre going over the ruins, he somehow survived.

If this seems unlikely … yeah.

Its a bit of a reach, Whitta says, which is why it isnt in the finished film.

Hes all beat up, his capes all torn up and stuff, and he thinks he has survived.

Except this time, Vader isnt just wielding deadly puns.

Krennic thinks he has endured.

He thinks he has served valiantly for the Emperor.

Vader kills him for his failure, Whitta says.