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The release date is now December 15, 2017.
The Official Synopsis from Star Wars.com
“In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in U.S. theaters on December 15, 2017.”
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
I don't know if this will be in the new 14 acre Star Wars Land but there's a nasty rumor going around that Disney may charge extra for SWL and that it might not be included the regular priced Disneyland ticket.
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
There is some CGI done here on Luke's face. I wonder if this is a shot from a flashback. Maybe showing him just before he goes into exile on Ach-To.
There's definitely a flashback, as seen in the trailer.
Luke and R2 see the destruction of his Jedi Academy.
Whether or not this image is from that flashback or something else remains to be seen. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
I'm going to go here and die from dehydration from the nonstop tears of joy I'm going to be crying.
I love how sparse the attendance is at this park. There's going to be a billion people crammed into those walkways and three hour lines to pet the droids. [Reply]
Director Rian Johnson was asked point blank if Benicio del Toro's new character nicknamed "DJ" is actually Ezra or if they have any connection.
“He’s his own person,” Johnson answered on Good Morning America. “DJ is his own person.”
Johnson also stressed that “DJ” is what the character is called in the movie and that it stands for something, hinting that it would be a big reveal when Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits theaters.
Sounds like it could be possible Rian Johnson is administering some word-jitsu by saying "He's his own person". He could have slammed the door shut by saying "No, Ezra Bridger has no connection to the character Del Toro is playing in this movie", but left it ambiguous.
If he IS a Dark Jedi, I find it more likely that he actually could be Ezra with a new identity, a smuggler type of persona based on his "buddy" Hondo Ohnaka. [Reply]
It sounds like the next Star Wars movie is going to have a lot of… gray… areas.
While cast members Daisy Ridley, Kelly Marie Tran, Gwendoline Christie, Laura Dern, Benicio del Toro, and Mark Hamill spoke with Good Morning America, some stressed that the upcoming film would explore themes that sit in the middle of the spectrum of good and evil.
“This is the second of three films,” Ridley said. “So there may be a lot of gray that’s very exciting.” “We’re all gray,” Tran added. The interviewer asks if Star Wars: The Last Jedi itself will dwell more in the gray area and Ridley responds: “I would say, yes.”
With how many times the interviewer and the cast members said the word "gray", it’s kind of hard not to take this discussion as a hint toward the inclusion of Gray Jedi, or something similar, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Gray Jedi were in the former Extended Universe stories as being balanced with both the Light and Dark Sides of the Force. We've yet to see that explored in the movies or TV shows, though it could be argued that Ahsoka Tano has taken a similar path after leaving the Jedi Order.
All of this, of course, is speculation until we get to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but we certainly wouldn't be upset if they included Gray Jedi or even a similar concept. It wouldn't be completely out of left field — even though the original trilogy dwelled firmly in the concepts of light versus dark, the prequels established that being beheld to one or the other could lead to a downfall.
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Also, the actor that portrays Ezra Bridger on Star Wars Rebels is Taylor Gray.
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Sounds like it could be possible Rian Johnson is administering some word-jitsu by saying "He's his own person". He could have slammed the door shut by saying "No, Ezra Bridger has no connection to the character Del Toro is playing in this movie", but left it ambiguous.
If he IS a Dark Jedi, I find it more likely that he actually could be Ezra with a new identity, a smuggler type of persona based on his "buddy" Hondo Ohnaka.
The other thing though is the timeline. Ezra & Luke are approximately the same age, right?
If so, I would think that if Ezra was still alive, he be portrayed by an actor closer in age to Mark Hammil (65) than Del Toro (50).
I suppose they could explain it away by saying that DJ had been in Carbonite for 15 years or so but it doesn't seem to line up. [Reply]
