He isn't a Knight of Ren or Young Palpatine but he is playing the main antagonist of IX, and the saga as a whole. His character is essentially what ties all of the trilogies together as JJ said in his interview.
Smith has been cast as an ancient force user, the first jedi, who turned to the dark side and was felled by his sister, a fellow jedi who served the light, much like Rey. However he had grown incredibly powerful in the dark side, a child of the force like Anakin and was able to imbue his spirit into an artifact.
Centuries later he resurfaces and infiltrates Bane's Order of Sith Lords, he discovers a Young Palpatine and together they vow to uncovered the secrets of the force, which ultimately leads to the creation of the chosen one, Anakin, as the force recognizes that Matt Smith's character is a massive threat.
Ultimately Plagueis is murdered by his apprentice but having learned the secret to immortality he is able to reincarnate as the being who would come to be known as Snoke. He waits in the shadows, amassing power in the Unknown Regions while his apprentice builds an Empire.
The reason Palpatine was so fascinated with the Unknown Regions was because he sensed a great dark side presence, a presence similar to what he felt around his master. Upon the Emperor's defeat at the hands of the Chosen One, Snoke moved to seize control of his former apprentices assets and form the First Order.
Snoke was fascinated by the force and how over the millennia it has brought about chosen ones or vessels to carry out it's will and maintain balance in the galaxy. As he says in TLJ "Darkness rises, and the Light to meet it". Snoke was the very first of these "vessels" and now Rey and Kylo Ren are the new embodiments of the dark and light.
Snoke took an interest in the Skywalker bloodline, becoming Luke's alky for a time, but Luke saw through his lies and the two ultimately fought. Snoke's disfigurement was caused by Luke. After this, he turned his attention to Luke's nephew, intent on having a vessel of the force under his command. He ultimately succeeding in turning Kylo but was betrayed again, he also tries to turn to Rey to his cause but fails.
He has sent the Knights of Ren on a search for the Door to the Beyond, so he can gain access to the realm of the force and destroy it. Concurrently he is also preparing a force powered weapon that will purge the galaxy of the force, or rather sever every living beings connection to it, preventing the force from controlling the galaxy's destiny, he essentially wants to kill god and has waited centuries to do it. He has grown to resent the Jedi, Sith and their cycle of destruction and wishes to bring it to an end.
Rey is also a vessel of the force, which is what Snoke meant when he said it had awakened in her, explaining how she's so powerful. And Luke's refusal to leave the island was connected to Snoke, for as long as he remained at the first jedi temple, Snoke couldn't access his full power nor could he set foot on the island himself, hence his need to send Kylo and the Knights of Ren. A part of his spirit was being held there but now he is free and able to reincarnate in IX.
That's the jist of it anyway from what I can gather from this source and what George has said about the sequel trilogy. It sounds a lot like Kotor desu.
So I guess the whole “there’s only ever two Sith - master and apprentice” has been thrown out the fucking window then
Benjamin Perez
A white male is the galactic evil? Truly fascinating
Joshua Evans
that was always stupid and unnecesary I mean why would yoda knew about sith hyerarchy in the first place?
Nicholas Brown
That was a rule invented by Darth Bane many many years after the Jedi and Sith came into being. He believed with only two channeling the Dark Side, a master and a learner, their strength would be less 'diluted' and continually refine itself as each student bettered and slew their master
Dominic Martin
Literally who?
Michael Fisher
Snoke disavowed the Sith after being betrayed by Palpatine. So he's neither Sith or Jedi, but he has been both in his lifetime and despises their religions and the force they serve.
Don’t care either way, never touching Star Wars again with Disney involved. It actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise they won’t fuck with the prequels because that’s the only saga I care about. Fuck Star Wars and fuck Disney
Alexander Barnes
It won’t be like that but I appreciate you giving us hope
Benjamin Cooper
FORce YOUser
Elijah Sanchez
sounds like an ok headcannon however expecting the mouse to cram these kind of heavy-handed ideas about the Force into the movie for [the general audience] seems unlikely.
Connor White
that's a lot of shit to read in the crawl. or put in a 2hr movie. there was nothing in the first or second movie to complete this 'story'. let me say it this way. abrams sprinkled some bread crumbs on a plate in the first movie. rian sneezed some mustard or mayo near the plate. and now in this third 'movie' we're expected to see a delicious sandwich on that plate? are you fucking kidding me?
Justin Wilson
the majority of this pasta was written for what some bullshit larper thought the last jedi was gonna be. and you thought no one would remember. HA
Mason King
This thing again? Literally the same thing people said about Snoke for TLJ. Fuck's sake, just give it a rest. Nobody is retarded enough to go see Ep9 anyway except for retards and the dumb masses
Evan Miller
you said there were only going to be 3 movies in this new trilogy
Ryan Turner
Wow, sounds completely original and not like a certain other character.
This seems somewhat interesting that deserves it's own trilogy so I know it's fake.
I'll wait for the leaks that say Finn makes his own purple lightsaber, Rey is so powerful that she flies through light speed to attack the FO and Lando shits himself in his wheelchair saying "Oh she's my new princess!!" Before dying of heart failure
>That's just shitty writing Have you even seen TFA or TLJ?
James Cox
BOOYA
Gavin Walker
They will have a hard enough time introducing the Knights of Ren if they go that route. TLJ fucked the franchise so badly that it's pointless.
Disney is going to memory hole this trilogy as fast as they can. It's been a nightmare, and destroyed the brand. They would be crazy to add a fourth movie.
Camden Harris
No. I walked out of ep2 in the cinema.
Josiah Jenkins
Because he's been alive for hundreds of years, and it would make strategic sense to know how your enemy operates?
Landon Thomas
It would be extremely emotional
David Carter
the only real thing in this fanfic is that Smith isn't playing a KoR or a Young Palpatine, both things leaked already. the rest is typical LARP that doesn't understand no film-maker would ever load a movie with such convoluted lore.
Robert Anderson
Darth Quasimodo.
Tyler Clark
>Where’s the Ep IX trailer? I want an Episode IX trailer!
>reach the final part of the trilogy >uuum let's bring in a completely new primary antagonist no one knows or gives a fuck about!
What a train wreck this series has become. No one could have imagined just how bad it could get when we were criticizing the prequels
Jose Lee
You’re insane if you think the last movie’s gonna be such a lore dump. Just think of what happened in the last two. The plot’s were insanely basic. People seem to think the EU is what Star Wars actually is but forget that when you isolate the movies from any of that shit it’s a pretty basic story.
Wyatt Robinson
bad timing loser. Smith just said that he is not in IX.
It would be the only logical direction they could've went in. Have the first movie be about the origins of the Jedi and a select group of them be not satisfied with the way they run things, eventually they discover the alien race of the Sith and are tempted by them. First movie ends with them leaving the order. Second movie is all about the Sith order being formed while the third movie could be about the first great Jedi-Sith war happening.
Eli Kelly
Retconning their own trilogy in the trilogy? Based and meta-pilled.
Michael Baker
So it's again copying Kotor 2 and Evangelion which are both already similar.
First off >muh ancient evil who was behind every bad thing the entire time I didn't know Nu Wars could become even more creatively bankrupt Second off imagine introducing the big bad and his motivations in the third entry of your trilogy. If the backstory you tell is true, then there is no reason for him to attack the Republic or build the Starkiller base >Concurrently he is also preparing a force powered weapon that will purge the galaxy of the force, or rather sever every living beings connection to it, preventing the force from controlling the galaxy's destiny, he essentially wants to kill god and has waited centuries to do it. He has grown to resent the Jedi, Sith and their cycle of destruction and wishes to bring it to an end. So he's a bootleg Kreia without the mentor role or the story of betrayal and powerlessness that made Kreia so interesting......great... > And Luke's refusal to leave the island was connected to Snoke, for as long as he remained at the first jedi temple, Snoke couldn't access his full power nor could he set foot on the island himself, hence his need to send Kylo and the Knights of Ren. A part of his spirit was being held there but now he is free and able to reincarnate in IX. Can't be true since TLJ established that Luke went there because he was a suicidal, masochistic and depressed hobo
Carson Ortiz
Jesus Christ, what a clusterfuck, if true. They might as well make Episode IX an anime at this point.
Jace Allen
How buttflustered you think Disney is, when EU did it first is the new simpsons meme for them?
Ryan Evans
>white man bad can you live a day without complaining about everything?
