evil battle for the first time in the franchise’s long history, defining the heroes aligned with the Light Side by more than just their righteousness. But because it has more time to do so, The Last Jedi actually digs into the underpinnings of this ongoing good vs.
Johnson’s film also features a significant new character named Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), who joins the Resistance-still a ragtag gang of underdogs battling an imposing, fascist force. Its ensemble is firmly in place-the burgeoning Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley), the First Order defector Finn (John Boyega), the charming pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), and the villainous Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), formerly known as Ben Solo. Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII, titled The Last Jedi, has far more of an open canvas to work on. Abrams’s decision was simple almost to a fault-but forgivably so, given how much additional work the director had to do in terms of setting up the film’s new characters. A bold group of Rebels doing battle against a monolithic Empire was thus recast as an independent Resistance fighting off the new threat of the First Order, with both sides consciously styling their look and their tactics after their forbears. “We very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats so the rest of the movie could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars,” Abrams said after the film’s release. Episode VI) had ended with the downfall of the Empire. Abrams said that when he began devising the story for Star Wars: The Force Awakens-the long-awaited seventh episode of the franchise that came out in 2015-he quickly realized the film had to return to that good-vs.-evil dynamic, even though Return of the Jedi (a.k.a. Those straightforward, elemental stakes were crucial to George Lucas’s original pitch for the space-opera series. This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.įor 40 years, the Star Wars saga has largely been one of good guys and bad guys, of the Rebels and the Empire, of the Light Side and Dark Side of the Force.
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