AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
As they had completed shooting before Carrie Fisher passed away AND they had planned for Leia to be central to episode 9, that would require a re-write and a change to the end of this film to accommodate that. I hope they don't do it off-screen between films, and I trust them to NOT do that.
I've now seen the trailer, and it's very good, with one bit which looks pretty spoilery to me.
The way it's put together is in the whole designed to mis-direct us into believing certain things occur, but in terms of the juxtaposition of dialogue / images and simply the order in which specific visual elements are ordered. In some way that's slightly irksome, as IF they're all misdirects it points to the true nature of each - I hope some are double bluffs.
It's what keeps all the fans hooked, new and old, cannot be ignored!