Category Archives: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Good Morning America Interviews Rian Johnson

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Good Morning America Interviews The Cast Of The Last Jedi

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New Trailer for The Last Jedi Runtime

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Via Furiousfanboys.com:

Are you ready for some more footage from Star Wars: The Last Jedi? It looks like we won’t have to wait too long…

The BBFC in the UK has just classified a new trailer for The Last Jedi, and based on its running time and designation, this is a different one than what we got in April:

April’s trailer was called “Trailer A” and ran about two minutes. This is a “Trailer B” and is actually thirty seconds shorter.
We’re likely to see the new trailer either at D23 Expo during the Live Action panel on July 15th, or at San Diego Comic Con in Hall H a week later on July 22nd.

Why Klyo Ren’s Scars Have Been Changed

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Via Gamesradar.com:
Scars run deep in a galaxy far, far away. Unless you’re Kylo Ren that is. Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson wasn’t a fan of the scars Kylo Ren was given in his climactic tussle with Finn and Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens so he changed them to make them look cooler. Obviously.

Johnson took to Twitter to justify his slight adjustment to the “goofy” scars and, honestly, he’s completely right. Ren now looks more Big Boss (i.e hella cool) instead of a patched-up Frankenstein’s Sith monster.

The Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer shows Kylo Ren with a giant scar over his right eye – which you can see below – (h/t ComicBook.com) and gets rid of the snaking mark that dominates Ren’s face at the end of The Force Awakens.

REY’S PARENTAGE IS DEFINITELY ‘INTEGRAL’ TO THE STAR WARS SAGA

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LUCASFILM PRESIDENT KATHLEEN KENNEDY TELLS MTV NEWS THAT ‘THE LAST JEDI’ WILL ADDRESS THE MYSTERY OF REY’S PARENTAGE

Star Wars: The Force Awakens introduced us to a fearless new heroine named Rey (Daisy Ridley), and in the next installment of the Star Wars saga, The Last Jedi, we’ll get to know even more about the Force-sensitive scavenger from Jakku as the film dives into her backstory. Of course, this means Episode VIII will address the most significant mystery surrounding the character: her parentage.

“It is integral. It is important. It’s something that, interestingly enough, even as we were sitting and coming up with The Force Awakens, it was one of the central questions we were all asking ourselves,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told MTV’s Josh Horowitz at Star Wars Celebration. “So it’s not surprising that the audience is going to continue to ask [that question]. We have to answer it at some point.”

While Kennedy wouldn’t confirm if the answer fans have been looking for comes in The Last Jedi or not, she did say that the anticipated middle chapter, like The Empire Strikes Back before it, will set up the conflict that will carry the characters to the end of the saga in Episode IX.

“There’s no question that this is set up as a trilogy, and that three-act structure of the set-up, the conflict, and the resolution very much is what we have planned,” she said. “But we do try hard to have these films stand on their own.”

As for where the Star Wars franchise goes from here, and whether it will be a continuation of the Skywalker saga, Kennedy says she and her team at Lucasfilm are “asking those questions right now.” But given the success of Rogue One, Lucasfilm does have every intention of doing more anthology films. Fans can anticipate that announcement sometime this summer.

Kennedy also had something important to say about the standalone Han Solo film that’s currently filming at Pinewood Studios in London — but you can check that out for yourself in the video.

 

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Rian Johnson Reveals Name Of New Planet In “The Last Jedi”

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Via Ew.com:

Red. Blood red.

It’s the color scheme of the Last Jedi title. It dominates the sky in the teaser poster. In Star Wars lore, it’s traditionally a sign of evil. Darth Vader’s eyes had a faint red tinge, and his scarlet saber igniting in darkness could strike fear in the hearts of Rebel soldiers — just before striking them dead. (Kylo Ren’s crossguard lightsaber is red too, in honor of his grandfather.)

Rian Johnson, writer and director of the new film, employs this part of the spectrum for a specific reason, and we saw it prominently in the trailer, as speeders lined up in formation to fly along the surface of a new world, dragging stabilizers that rip up the scorched surface into blood-colored plumes of ash.

EW has exclusively learned the name of this world is Crait.

“It’s way out there. It’s very remote. It’s uncharted,” says Johnson. “It’s a mineral planet and so there are mines on it.” The director (previously best known for Brick and Looper) noted how there are some “beautiful design elements and I hope some really unique ones that we’re able to bring into it.”

The shot of these small ships darting toward gigantic walkers mimics the snowy Hoth battle sequence from The Empire Strikes Back, but this white crust is salt. “The white dusting of salt over this red, ruby-ish mineral base,” he says.

According to Johnson, Crait is the site of an “an old rebel base there that’s now abandoned” and the planet was one of the first things he had in mind when planning The Last Jedi.

“It ends up playing a key role in the movie,” he says, adding that the Resistance fighters — flying in the skimmers seen in the trailer — “show up where they have to deal with a very pressing and immediate threat.”

But what is the significance of the red surface that’s kicked up by the fighters? Red is the symbol of blood in basic human nature — but blood can stand for violence or family. Maybe both, in some cases.

Johnson nods at this. “Go ahead and run with that,” he says.

There’s plenty more to learn about The Last Jedi before its Dec. 15 release. But here’s one mystery that’s been solved.