Via Cinemablend.com:

For better or worse, Star Wars: The Force Awakens received a lot of comparisons to the original Star Wars: A New Hope when it was released in 2015, so it’s no surprise that people are expecting Star Wars: The Last Jedi to be this trilogy’s Empire Strikes Back. Even with what little we know about the new film’s plot, there are obvious parallels. Rey will spend a good portion of the story training with Luke Skywalker, just as Luke did with Yoda, all while the Resistance has to deal with the First Order. Director Rian Johnson says that while there certainly are some similarities, he tries to ignore them because the story is, ultimately, something new. According to Johnson…

“I just tried to kind of ignore that aspect of it and have the story take the shape that it needed to, but look, Rey is off in a remote location with a Jedi master, and the Resistance is in a tough spot, and we’re intercutting those stories. By its very nature, there are some structural parallels. But these are new characters, they’re dealing with new things, and that ultimately is what defines the movie. So I think that’s going to be unique.”

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