The report says: “Bob Chapek is busy developing this Star Wars universe by using George Lucas, John Favreau, Dave Filoni – all these major creators working together to deliver authentic material to Star Wars fans around the world.
“One things Star Wars fans have been very curious about is what could have happened with Rise of Skywalker if Kathleen Kennedy did not intervene and did not delete a majority of scenes through the two phases of reshoots and rewrites which took place in 2018 and the big one in 2019 – which is where a lot of Luke’s scenes were deleted as well as Palpatine’s and Ben Solo’s.
“Bob Iger and Bob Chapek are pushing for the release of the Rise of Skywalker four-hour cut that is also the considered the JJ Abrams/George Lucas cut, that will introduce dozens of deleted scenes, some time in 2023.”