Star Wars: Rogue One Director Discusses Jedha & Its Possible Future.

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In a recent interview with IGN, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards discusses what the planet of Jedha is and why it’s important to the narrative of his movie. He also hints that the planet may be making an appearance in another Star Wars narrative sometime in the near future.

 

 

From the way that Gareth Edwards is speaking, it seems as though Jedha is bound to make another appearance elsewhere in the Star Wars canon, and relatively soon at that. Rebels would be the most obvious and thematically-relevant narrative for the planet to make a return in (especially since Saw Gerrera, who lives on the planet, would be the easiest way to connect both narratives). It’s still possible that it could show up somewhere in Episode VIII (presuming that the planet isn’t completely destroyed), and it has an outside chance of showing up in the Han Solo movie, but both seem like stretches at best.

 

On an incidental note… I don’t know if I’m reading too much into this, but I think it’s interesting that he identified Leia as a Jedi. Could it be that she received a degree of Jedi training between Return Of The Jedi and The Force Awakens? We know that she never built her own lightsaber, but that doesn’t mean that she never learned anything about tapping into the Force itself. It’s probably nothing, but I thought it was worth pointing out because it’s still worth discussing.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

38 thoughts on “Star Wars: Rogue One Director Discusses Jedha & Its Possible Future.

  • December 7, 2016 at 1:53 am
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    Leia has been known to use the force in small doses. in the new cannon books that is 😉

  • December 7, 2016 at 3:14 am
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    Did he just say “for all intensive purposes”? : /

    • December 7, 2016 at 4:36 am
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      That triggers me.

      • December 7, 2016 at 5:33 am
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        It’s a common misconception..

      • December 7, 2016 at 5:54 am
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        I can tell that you’re deeply triggered.

      • December 7, 2016 at 6:53 am
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        I could care less that it triggers you 🙂

        Ok, which one annoys you more?

    • December 7, 2016 at 6:11 pm
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      Sounded like “intents and purposes” to me. One of those gray-area pronunciations, perhaps, like “big league” vs. “bigly”, etc. (I personally heard “bigly” in all of Trump’s debate performances and found it hilarious).

      • December 8, 2016 at 12:14 am
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        yuuuuge!

      • December 8, 2016 at 4:24 am
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        I heard “big-league”.

        • December 8, 2016 at 5:18 am
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          That’s what linguists agree upon, evaluating the waveforms. But then, what exactly does he mean by “big league”? I’m familiar with Major League Baseball, personally…

          • December 8, 2016 at 9:35 pm
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            That’s what he’s referring to. Big-league as in large-scale. it’s just his own weird Trump-ism.

  • December 7, 2016 at 3:18 am
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    seeing this place on rebels would be great.

  • December 7, 2016 at 4:55 am
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    Is Jedha the planet we see in TFA that the ships fly home by after the Battle at Maz’s castle?

    • December 7, 2016 at 8:11 am
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      you mean the resistance base?

    • December 7, 2016 at 6:24 pm
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      Deleted cause I didn’t read enough 🙂

    • December 8, 2016 at 4:23 am
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      That’s D’Qar, the Resistance base.

  • December 7, 2016 at 7:55 am
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    Leia DID receive some training as revealed in Aftermath 2… until Luke vanished.

    • December 8, 2016 at 1:32 am
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      Seemed fairly obvious that she had a connection to it in ESB, RotJ, and TFA as well. But yes, Aftermath – Life Debt does refer to her actually having a measure of training from Luke.

  • December 7, 2016 at 6:10 pm
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    Note that he does not include Yoda in his list of surviving Jedi, so it’s not necessarily all-inclusive.

    • December 7, 2016 at 6:58 pm
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      No, because after it was Jedha it became Tatooine, then it became Jakku.

      🙂

      • December 7, 2016 at 6:59 pm
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        LOL. Love this.

      • December 8, 2016 at 3:39 am
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        Sassiness aside, it is interesting to note that Jakku’s most prominent feature when viewed from space is what appears to be a single, massive blast mark (IE: not an impact crater).

      • December 8, 2016 at 4:22 am
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        Shut up, there are a ton of differences between all three planets.

        One of them has an extra planet…or moon…or sun…I think.

        • December 8, 2016 at 3:01 pm
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          That and Tatooine appears in all 3 prequel films lol

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