Star Wars 9: Colin Trevorrow Reveals TIE Marauder Ship from His Version of Episode 9

There is no lack for opinions on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which brought the entire Skywalker Saga to a close when it was released at the end of 2019. One of the major criticisms lobbied against the film is that it felt too rushed, too muddled, and half-baked. And there’s probably a good reason for that: director and co-writer J.J. Abrams was working on a significantly abbreviated schedule because he wasn’t the original director and screenwriter onboard. Colin Trevorrow was.

Indeed, the Jurassic World filmmaker was announced as the writer and director of Star Wars 9 back in August 2015, and he worked on developing the film – including writing multiple drafts of the script – until he departed over creative differences in September 2017. Abrams was very quickly announced as his replacement, and while Trevorrow and Derek Connelly share a “story by” credit on the finished movie, we now know that Abrams and Rise of Skywalker co-writer Chris Terrio took the film in a very different direction.

While we can only imagine what Trevorrow’s version of Episode IX (called Duel of the Fates) would have looked like, a few vestiges of his designs remain – including one that he showed off during Collider’s “Directors on Directing” panel for Comic-Con@Home. During a conversation with fellow filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Joseph Kosinski, moderated by Collider’s own Steve Weintraub, Trevorrow showed off a 3D model for a Star Wars 9 ship he designed with his son called a TIE Marauder:

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