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Empire’s Podcast Special With Rian Johnson
Via Empireonline.com:
It’s taken a while, but here it is at last — our Star Wars: The Last Jedi spoiler special podcast, ready to go down as smooth as a green milkshake.
In this two-hour behemoth, the Empire Podcast team — Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, James Dyer, and Ian Freer — have a good old spoiler-heavy chat about the ups and downs, and the ins and outs of Episode VIII, and tackle a whole bunch of listeners’ questions. Let’s just say this is not going to go the way you think.
First up, though, is Chris’ chat with the film’s writer/director, Rian Johnson, who was in great form as he expounded on some of the film’s most shocking revelations, as well as shedding more light on his love of Adrian Edmondson. Which is, perhaps, the most shocking revelation of them all.
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WHY DID LUKE SKYWALKER USE A BLUE LIGHTSABER IN STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI?
Via Ign.com:
Star Wars: The Last Jedi has encouraged plenty of discussion and debate among fans since it debuted in December, and while there are some aspects of filmmaker Rian Johnson’s narrative that remain open for interpretation — at least until Episode 9 is released — there’s one burning question that keeps coming up regarding Luke Skywalker’s spectacularly snarky showdown with Kylo Ren at the film’s climax.
Many viewers have questioned why Luke chose to use his father Anakin’s blue lightsaber — which was shattered in Kylo Ren’s fight with Rey just a few scenes earlier — in his confrontation with his nephew. After all, shouldn’t that have been an immediate clue to Kylo (and the audience) that Luke wasn’t really there?
IGN had the opportunity to discuss the film with Johnson recently, and we couldn’t resist posing the question to the writer-director himself. Naturally, the architect of The Last Jedi — and a brand new Star Wars trilogy — had a perfectly sensible answer that should put the debate to rest.
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‘Last Jedi’ Editor Has Second Thoughts About Off Screen Death
Via Huffingtonpost.com:
If you were going into “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” expecting some great Admiral Ackbar scenes, sorry to break it to you: It’s a trap!
Ackbar didn’t get a ton of screen time in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, showing up for a limited amount of scenes in “Return of the Jedi.” But the hero of the Battle of Endor went on to become one of the most-memed, quoted and parodied characters of the franchise, even reaching No. 14 on HuffPost’s own ranking of “Star Wars” characters (which was last updated after “Rogue One”).
With all this fanfare, and even an appearance in “The Force Awakens,” it was a shock in “The Last Jedi” when (spoiler alert!) Ackbar was killed off-screen during a Kylo Ren-led attack on the rebels.
In the scene, Ren holds off on firing at a rebel ship containing Leia, but his squadron doesn’t. They blow up the bridge of her command ship, seemingly killing all the leaders within ― save for Leia, of course.
Though viewers don’t see his actual final moments, Gial Ackbar’s death is confirmed in a line of dialogue following the incident, which explains that nearly all of the rebel leadership, including Ackbar, were killed. Then, just like that, everyone moves on. And we were all like, “Ack-cuse me?”
Many fans felt the same.
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Losing Opening-Day Race in China
The Disney and Lucasfilm juggernaut is getting beaten badly by local comedy ‘The Ex-File 3,’ which opened in China a week ago.
Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is off to an inauspicious start in China, its final major box-office test.
The prior two Star Wars films underperformed in China, but the early results for The Last Jedi, which finally debuted locally on Friday, look even worse than expected.
The film earned $560,000 (3.65 million RMB) in midnight previews, well behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ $2.5 million (16 million RMB) previews score — and way behind The Fate of the Furious’ record $8.7 million preview total (60 million RMB) in 2017.
Worse still, Friday’s early box-office results have The Last Jedi clearly losing to local comedy The Ex-File 3: The Return of the Exes. As of 4:30 p.m., Beijing time, The Last Jedi had earned approximately $5 million (33 million RMB) compared to Ex-Files 3’s $11.6 million (75 million RMB), according to data from mobile ticketing service Maoyan.
The results came despite The Last Jedi getting substantially more screens — approximately a 35.6 percent share of all Chinese screens — compared to Ex-File’s 32.3 percent (again, as of 4:30 p.m. Friday). And adding insult to injury: Ex-File opened in China a full week ago.
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REBUILDING YODA FOR THE LAST JEDI
Via Nerdist.com:
The Last Jedi featured a number of surprises, but the biggest of all the twists and turns was also the smallest: Yoda. The wizened Jedi Master introduced in The Empire Strikes Back returned to give Luke Skywalker advice in Episode VIII, bringing the iconic character into the modern Star Wars fold. To get his appearance on Ahch-To right, Neal Scanlan—head of the creature shop (which is also responsible for aliens)—knew they had to make a puppet from the instant he learned of Yoda’s return. He told Nerdist the experience of creating Yoda was a gift.
“To know that we were going to have Yoda, we just said, ‘Look we need to go back and look at Empire Strikes Back, we need to look at how Stuart [Freeborn] created Yoda because that is the most pure puppet moment,’” Scanlan said. “It’s Frank Oz, who is one of the greatest puppeteers ever, and we knew that Frank was going to redo this. We just felt that it was absolutely right and proper that we create the puppet in the closest likeness to the original and to give Frank exactly what he had the first time around.”
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Don’t Eat Us!
The official twitter account for Star Wars shared an adorable image to kick off the new year…Check it out!
TFW it’s time to go #backtowork…#TheLastJedi https://t.co/x84tTTrLSi pic.twitter.com/XOw625BZCB
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 2, 2018
Club One Billion!!!
Congrats to The Last Jedi topping $1 Billion and officially getting crowned the top-grossing movie of 2017 in North America in just 15 days of release!
AMC Theaters Remove Warning About Star Wars: The Last Jedi Scene
Via Ew.com:
After taking matters into their own hands, two AMC movie theaters have removed signs that tipped off moviegoers to one particular scene in Star Wars: The Last Jedi when the sound cuts out. According to an AMC spokesperson, they were removed even before media coverage of them.
“The sign was up at two of AMC’s 660 locations. It was removed last week before the media coverage began,” read a statement to EW.
The signs appeared as fan criticism mounted against director Rian Johnson and his choices for Episode VIII. (Even Mark Hamill had said some things that he now regrets.) They first came to the public’s attention when actor Paul Scheer posted an image of one to Facebook.
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