In what amounts to a very deep cut into the production of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, editor Maryann Brandon spoke to Express and revealed that because the new Star Wars movie had a much tighter schedule than The Force Awakens, she convinced director J.J. Abrams to let her cut the film on set. Usually the editor isn’t on set and receives dailies that they begin assembling into a rough cut or an assembly cut. But because they had four fewer months to make The Rise of Skywalker, Brandon felt it would be best if she was …