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New Headliner Wars movie director has a secret cameo in Rise of Skywalker

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J.D. Dillard is a name most Star Wars fans will just be discovering for the freshman meter. The writer/director is currently attached to a new Star Wars movie, and actually has preceding history in a galaxy far-off, far out – with an impossibly hard-to-chance Whiz Wars: The Rise of Skywalker cameo.

Not spotted him? Don't trouble, you won't have to wait until the Rise of Skywalker home unloose to comb through all frame to try and figure IT out. Dillard is one of the many, more Stormtroopers featured in Episode 9. Atomic number 2's listed in the credits only as "FN-1226," (H/T Movie house Meld) who is i of the poor First Order soldiers that ends up getting Jedi take care-tricked by Rey on Kylo Ren's Star Uprooter midway direct the movie.

He joins a whole host of other weird and rattling cameo appearances, including director J.J. Abrams himself as hairdryer-shaped droid D-O, legendary composer John the Divin Williams on the planet of Pasaana, and straight-grained Ed Sheeran. Sorry to bring that up over again.

Dillard, meanwhile, probably won't have time for a cameo in his next project. Teaming up with Luke Cage writer Matt Owens, Dillard volition oversee the inexperienced Star Wars movie, reportedly set connected the Sith Satellite of Exegol.

A release date has not yet been fit, nor whether the film is going to hit theaters or instead go consecutive to Disney Plus simply, like Finn, He's departure from broken beginnings behind a helmet to possibly shaping the galaxy. Not bad going away for a Stormtrooper.

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