Todd Fisher: Carrie Will Be in Star Wars Episode IX.

Although she’s no longer with us, Carrie Fisher’s presence in the remainder of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy is something that would inevitably have to be addressed, as she died before filming on Episode IX began. According to Carrie’s younger brother Todd, the actress will be included in the concluding chapter of the trilogy by means of repurposed footage from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi that were not used in the final cut of either film.

 

From The New York Daily News:

After months of speculation about Carrie’s future in the sci-fi saga, Todd has revealed that Disney bosses want to bring Princess Leia back for Episode IX. And he said he and Carrie’s daughter, Billie Lourd, have granted the studio rights to use recent footage for the finale. It is understood that CGI will not be used to recreate Leia.

“Both of us were like, ‘Yes, how do you take her out of it?’ And the answer is you don’t. She’s as much a part of it as anything and I think her presence now is even more powerful than it was, like Obi Wan — when the saber cuts him down he becomes more powerful. I feel like that’s what’s happened with Carrie. I think the legacy should continue… To me, Star Wars is the holy grail of storytelling and lore and you can’t mess with it.”

 

The size of Fisher’s role in Episode IX is not clear, but it will depend entirely on how much footage that went unused can be deemed usable. While we shouldn’t expect to see a CGI double used in her place, it isn’t hard to imagine that there could be stand-in actresses who could serve as body doubles or record dialogue that Leia could deliver from offscreen.

 

With regard to the additional footage itself, there are two headlines that you need to be mindful of. If you remember back to last September, Carrie Fisher had to cut a Comic Book Convention appearance short due to some additional filming after principal photography on The Last Jedi wrapped. I think it’s likely that whatever was filmed at this time could be used for Episode IX, presuming that it wasn’t going to be used for The Last Jedi in the first place – and since we know that they aren’t making any cuts to The Last Jedi to diminish her role, that would also suggest that this additional footage could have been filmed for something new.

 

In the meantime, Todd Fisher will pursue development of projects that he and his sister were writing together. As sad as her passing was, it’s good to know that there’s going to be a sense of closure for everyone all around – Fisher’s family, her friends, and Star Wars fans – and that her family is getting by just fine in spite of last year’s tragedy.

 

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

79 thoughts on “Todd Fisher: Carrie Will Be in Star Wars Episode IX.

  • April 8, 2017 at 2:51 am
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    Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia will live forever.

    • April 8, 2017 at 10:18 pm
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      (Sadly) Correction:
      Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia will live forever.

  • April 8, 2017 at 3:18 am
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    There were apparently alot of scenes cut from Leia in The Force Awakens and it turns out that it might have been a blessing

  • April 8, 2017 at 3:35 am
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    If Leia is important to this triology (I feel they will have the mother-son relationship betweeen her and Kylo reflect luke and vaders) then I feel they should recast Leia.
    Yes carrie defined the role but look at how Ewan Mcgregor captured ObiWan.
    I just dont want the story to be comprimised by this tragedy.

    • April 8, 2017 at 3:46 am
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      You can’t recast a legend.

      • April 8, 2017 at 5:49 am
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        They recasted Han Solo though…

        • April 8, 2017 at 8:23 am
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          For a younger version which is justified. Just please, give him a break from the scorn, would ya?

          • April 8, 2017 at 8:35 am
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            I’ve got nothing against the guy..I just don’t know why this movie is happening because in my opinion it’s redundant and unnecessary. Like..if they wanted to explore Han’s backstory (which is risky enough) it could have been done as a comic or a novel. But hey..I’ll probably be first in line to watch it anyway.

        • April 8, 2017 at 1:24 pm
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          It’s recast, there’s no ‘ed’. And it’s a young Han Solo, not the ongoing story of.

          • April 8, 2017 at 5:21 pm
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            Recast* look at that you learn something new everyday. Point is..Harrison Ford IS Han Solo. So them replacing him with a new one is basically recasting a legend..which is the point I was making earlier. Doesn’t matter if he’s young or old..it has been done.

          • April 8, 2017 at 6:11 pm
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            You’ve sort of missed the point.

            It’s fair enough to cast an actor as a younger, or even older version of a character.
            In ‘reboots’, characters get ‘recast’ as a norm.
            But to recast a beloved, recently deceased actor, in the next installment, in the most important movie franchise of all time? well, you CAN’T recast a legend.
            Do you even realise how important that woman was to most of us?

          • April 8, 2017 at 6:23 pm
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            Alright stop. I basically grew up watching that woman and I still can’t believe she is gone, and if you read my first post for this story you will see that I agree with the fact that she shouldn’t be recast. so don’t go there. Also these situations you’re referring to in reboots are justified because it’s essentially a remake of a story and everyone has been recast. But in a sense of a prequel for example, Obi Wan worked because we never saw what he looked like young, who’s to say he didn’t look like Ewan. But in the case of Han Solo..well we’ve already seen what he looks like young and old..and it’s Harrison Ford. Even Billy was a little skeptical for Glover to take over as Lando, because these characters are their own.

          • April 8, 2017 at 7:40 pm
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            Lmao

          • April 8, 2017 at 6:25 pm
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            Well, look. Carrie is gone. We can’t do anything about it. She gave us an amazing character, and in my opinion, we are limiting the character’s potential by only using stock footage. There is only so much you can do with pre-recoded footage, and all it does it disallows any character development. So in a way, not recasting Leia or having a CGI version is a bad thing as this character that Carrie has given us is not given the chance to further it’s story.

          • April 8, 2017 at 6:35 pm
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            Kind of Cold though, considering she is barely cold herself.

    • April 8, 2017 at 4:07 am
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      They’re not going to recast Carrie Fisher. End of story. In the past, people have said the same thing. But this role, this character – Carrie Fisher brought it to millions of people. Like the guy said, she’s a legend.

  • April 8, 2017 at 4:10 am
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    This is an astounding revelation; relieving even for the entirety of the sequel trilogy!

    With TLJ production fully complete, this could mean that Episode IX’s script has not changed, as well, regarding this latest news.

    I really can’t wait to see how the story in the sequel trilogy will play out to it’s conclusion and how the remaining ST films will give both the character Leia and the late Carrie a ‘proper’ sendoff. ^_^

  • April 8, 2017 at 4:40 am
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    Well, at least Ep. 8 is unaffected. They won’t recast Carrie now, hopefully they can do a believable job editing in the reserve footage for Ep. 9, doubt she will be in it much..

    • April 8, 2017 at 5:44 pm
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      Are you sure? I think its likely that they push some Leia footage/story from ep.VIII to ep. IX to expand her role in IX.

      • April 8, 2017 at 7:14 pm
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        I believe Bob Iger said that her performance in VIII is untouched

  • April 8, 2017 at 5:57 am
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    It bothers me because I feel like we will never get to experience the intended version of what Episode IX should have been. But I do agree with the decision made. Recasting or having the controversial digital human stand in her place is not a good idea just out of respect for Carrie and her legacy.

    • April 8, 2017 at 2:52 pm
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      I really dont think she would mind a recast or cgi double she would probally joke about it.

  • April 8, 2017 at 6:32 am
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    Good, I think this is the best way to do things. No CGI, no recasting, and no contrived off-screen death.

  • April 8, 2017 at 6:37 am
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    I didn’t consider this, but it just might work. It’s probably the best option out there, especially looking at how seamlessly they managed to repurpose footage from ANH in Rogue One. I just hope they have enough to let her play the role they intended, or close to it.

  • April 8, 2017 at 8:25 am
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    This is what I expected them to do. They’ll use the footage they have and reduce her role. It sucks we won’t know what they would have done had she been alive but hopefully they have enough footage to give her a meaningful role.

    • April 8, 2017 at 3:43 pm
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      With some clever writing, a body double, a good voice alike, unused footage and some in-world trick (holograms) they can pretty much make her have whatever role they want.

  • April 8, 2017 at 8:27 am
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    I’m glad they’ve come to a reasonable solution to this

  • April 8, 2017 at 8:29 am
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    Nice decision from the guys. 🙂

  • April 8, 2017 at 8:40 am
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    I think the BEST move is to use UNused footage and then use “SOME CGI” to fill in the blanks with her — this could be done so SEAMLESSLY by 2019 that no one would even know which is which !

    • April 8, 2017 at 11:20 am
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      Exactly. These days, CGI is quite good enough to do distance shots, or scenes where a slightly blurry Leia communicates via hologram. Or they could use a cleverly made-up look-alike actress for the same purpose. Save the precious unused footage of Carrie for the close-ups, perhaps only animating her mouth to fit new dialogue (pretty inevitable, I guess, and you can always find someone who can do a decent voice imitation).

    • April 8, 2017 at 6:11 pm
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      That is my hope for what the go with. That’s what worked so well with how they handled Paul walkers passing. Granted he had filmed most of his scenes, but I very much hope that they can conclude Elias story as closely as they can to the original intent given the circumstances

  • April 8, 2017 at 2:02 pm
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    Honestly, using some CGI wouldn’t be bad at all, especially considering how they don’t really have any choice if Leia was going to have a sigificant role…
    This isn’t the prequel era anymore, where CGI looked like some PS2 cutscene…
    By the year ep IX comes out the average viewer probably won’t have any idea they are looking at fake imagery.

    • April 8, 2017 at 8:21 pm
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      Rogue One looked like some PS2 cut scene..okay maybe PS4 or Xbox One but not at all convincing all the same.. They were lucky to have a cast of Cushing’s face for reference as well – makes a big difference, they don’t have this for Carrie Fisher. Better she be in a few scenes they’ve already shot and if they need to use CGI to change where they take place or tweak the performance then do that.

        • April 8, 2017 at 10:25 pm
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          Cite your source? This isn’t a college term paper — but CosmicDolphin’s info is correct. There’s no reason to make a mold of any actor’s face if they’re not wearing prosthetic make-up (which Carrie never was).

          • April 8, 2017 at 10:35 pm
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            They made a 3D scan of her face for toys.

          • April 8, 2017 at 10:41 pm
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            But not an actual cast, like they had for Peter Cushing. Based on the behind-the-scenes footage, that made a world of difference. It would have been impossible without it.

          • April 8, 2017 at 11:18 pm
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            dude…they scanned not only her face but her entire body…AND in every outfit she wore….what are you babbling about? ” but not an actual cast” lol… hello? “3D” scan of her already in the computer…. get it? YES the mold of Cushing helped..BECAUSE he was already dead and that’s the only way they could get the “3D” scan of his face.. They scanned her ACTUAL FACE.and dont need a mold.so….

          • April 8, 2017 at 11:25 pm
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            Are you okay?

          • April 9, 2017 at 5:15 am
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            The face scans were for her appearance in Episode VII. People a lot in 40 years, but not in 2.

          • April 9, 2017 at 5:17 am
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            Unless they get involved in a car accident…

          • April 9, 2017 at 5:18 am
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            I feel like this is a reference to something, but I don’t know what. Regardless, Carrie’s facial scans for Episode VII will more than suffice.

          • April 9, 2017 at 5:21 am
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            Mark Hamills car accident after A New Hope. But you are right.

          • April 10, 2017 at 6:59 pm
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            1970’s plastic surgery took a ‘L’ on that one lol

          • April 9, 2017 at 5:55 pm
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            It didn’t help much with Rogue One. I can’t “cite-the-source”, but I vaguely recall hearing that they attempted to scan her face last year, at least to sorta get the bone structure points for her younger face, but the years of coke, booze, & cosmetic surgery kinda rendered that process counterproductive.

          • April 9, 2017 at 8:11 pm
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            Yeah, counterproductive for recreating her face as it was 40 years ago. They still scanned her for toys though. They scan everyone.

          • April 9, 2017 at 1:29 am
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            Yeah, because they didn’t have a 3D scan of his face, as he died in the early 90s. Carrie is a different story.

          • April 9, 2017 at 1:38 am
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            Well aware, my friend. Was simply matter-of-factly defending the guy’s claim above about Peter Cushing’s lucky Top Secret facial mold.

      • April 9, 2017 at 12:21 am
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        Your comment/upvote ratio says the answer to these silly assumptions.

      • April 9, 2017 at 12:46 am
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        It’s time to get glasses for you, as R1 clearly did not look like a PS cutscene. It was some of the best CGI you can get till date…

        • April 9, 2017 at 3:04 am
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          Really I think the biggest problem with Tarkin in Rogue One was they gave him so much detail that he appears hyper-realistic. Things like the wrinkles in his skin and his pours they were more in focus vivid than any of the actual actors on set.

          I blurred a lot of his finer details and made a comparison.
          https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xnnnaxoz7a1img/tarkins.png?dl=0

      • April 10, 2017 at 9:44 am
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        John Knoll strongly disagrees with you. He said no way it look like a cut video game scene and I’d like to see that video game scene you’re talking about the compare it to. Or any video game scene out there.

          • April 10, 2017 at 2:52 pm
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            Knoll:”I don’t doubt that people who don’t like the work are seeing something that they object to. But I think there’s a lot of hyperbole in there to say that it looks like a video game cut scene, because I will assert that no it doesn’t.

            Some of my evidence will be that there are a lot of people who had no idea that they were looking at computer graphics, so it can’t be that bad. But this is very difficult work. It’s one of the hardest things in computer graphics, and I felt like we had good dramatic reasons to do this.”
            http://www.slashfilm.com/rogue-one-john-knoll-interview/2/

  • April 8, 2017 at 3:11 pm
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    I trust Lucasfilm. That’s all I can do.

  • April 8, 2017 at 3:17 pm
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    I’m not 100% convinced that Todd Fisher would know for sure whether Carrie will be involved or not. They may have given them permission to use footage but it may not fit into the story they want to tell in Episode IX. I’m glad that the Fisher family has been so understanding about her future in Star Wars though and hopefully they can bring some finality to her story.

    • April 8, 2017 at 5:55 pm
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      I’m guessing Lucasfilm would want to tell Carrie’s family about their plans so that they could greenlight them. Wouldn’t Todd know better than anyone (except maybe Billie Lourd)?

      • April 8, 2017 at 10:39 pm
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        Not to be mean, but Todd doesn’t even seem like someone who knows how to put on his own pants anymore, so I’m taking this all with a grain of (bath)salt.

        • April 9, 2017 at 4:04 am
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          That was a spectacular failure in not being mean.

          • April 9, 2017 at 5:53 pm
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            Someone has a crush on Todd….

          • April 10, 2017 at 12:05 am
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            No, someone knows their place. Assuming you know more than a family member is quite arrogant.

          • April 10, 2017 at 12:14 am
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            So what?

          • April 10, 2017 at 5:18 pm
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            lol, what terrific debate skills.

          • April 11, 2017 at 3:25 am
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            What exactly do you want to debate?

          • April 11, 2017 at 2:40 pm
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            Nothing with you. Have a good one!

    • April 8, 2017 at 6:30 pm
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      I pretty sure he would know better than most.

  • April 8, 2017 at 4:42 pm
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    Force Ghost – She just has to stand there and smile.

    • April 8, 2017 at 5:55 pm
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      I would be okay with that. I’m sure that they could find a good retcon as to how she managed to become a Force Ghost. Just because she’s not a Jedi doesn’t mean she can’t learn other Force powers.

      • April 8, 2017 at 6:04 pm
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        Agreed. If anakin can be granted the ability despite spending the majority of his life as a sith, I feel like someone as emotionally attuned to the force as leia is could learn the ability. And outside of canon it would be nice for everyone emotionally to feel like Carrie will be with us always

      • April 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm
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        If something were to happen to her in TLJ and her fate were left unknown like Han’s was in TESB that would perhaps explain why they are so cool about not reworking TLJ as a result of the loss of Carrie?
        It would also give Lucasfilm the option of using the whole Force Ghost theme later, and also means they could use footage of the younger her which may be more plentiful.

    • April 9, 2017 at 3:18 pm
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      Yeah I don’t get that not a lot of people are thinking that her dying in the Episode 8 is a very real possibility.

      • April 9, 2017 at 9:40 pm
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        Wouldn’t it be a weird coincidence if Leia died in Episode 8 and then Carrie died in real life? Because they’re not going to rewrite the movie; Bob Iger said that he performance in 8 won’t be changed.

        • April 11, 2017 at 4:48 pm
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          I honestly think it’s more likely than her being a Force Ghost or somehow Disney have the foresight to predict her death and have her film scenes that are going to be super relevant to the story in Episode 9.

  • April 8, 2017 at 8:47 pm
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    I have a sneaking suspicion that she’s already sharing the role with another actor — even in “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi”.

    • April 9, 2017 at 4:05 am
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      …k

  • April 8, 2017 at 10:48 pm
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    I still can’t believe she’s gone, but good on lucasfilm to include her family.

    • April 8, 2017 at 11:08 pm
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      Have to for legal purposes.

  • April 9, 2017 at 10:37 am
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    I wouldn’t get too excited. Probably a force back or something.

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