[CaptainCrunch]

This is the rumor.


Hayden was going to be bought back for more then a 2 second piece of voice acting. He was in the original script supposed to show up as a force ghost in the confrontation with Palpatine. Hayden was contacted and hired to come in and shoot the scene.


When Kathleen Kennedy heard this she hit the roof because she felt that Hayden as Anakin would end up being more popular then Rey and Kylo as characters and over shadow them. So she fired Hayden and had the script changed.


Basically it caused a rift between Disney and Hayden and is rumored to be one of the reasons why Kennedy is being pushed away from Star Wars and a lot of the blame for the disaster that was the story of the sequel and the Rise of Skywalker has laid at her feet for her desire to change the story from the original script to the mess that it became.



There are lots of indicators that Disney is going to let her contract expire in 2021, but she will have limited involvement in the creative decisions for Star Wars.


She was already on thin ice with the performance on Solo, the reshoots of Rogue One. She hated the Disney Galaxies edge and felt that it should have focused on the sequels. There was also a rumored split between her camp and the more traditional Star Wars Camp focused around Dave Filoni and the team running the Mandalorian and some of the other upcoming Star Wars content.


It seems like its one of the big reasons why Bob Iger seems to be taking the lead on Star Wars.

At least that's the rumor from a few sources.