Star Wars archivist Madlyn Burkert has recently shared some of the secrets behind the designing process of Dark Rey’s double-bladed lightsaber in The Rise of Skywalker.

While fans had a lot of theories about ‘Dark Rey’ as featured in the D23 trailer for the last movie in the Skywalker Saga, the film ultimately disappointed us by revealing that the evil counterpart to the Sequel Trilogy’s main protagonist was but a mere illusion, the same kind that haunted Luke during his training in The Empire Strikes Back. Still, J.J. Abrams did give us a few fleeting moments with the character and even brandished her with a cool-looking red double-bladed lightsaber. Only this time, Dark Rey’s weapon seemed more complex than what Darth Maul wielded in the Prequel Trilogy.

In fact, according to a recent interview with Lucasfilm’s archivist, Madlyn Burkert, the design team spent a lot of...