Star Wars: Rogue One Director Discusses Jedha & Its Possible Future.
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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Leia has been known to use the force in small doses. in the new cannon books that is 😉
Did he just say “for all intensive purposes”? : /
That triggers me.
It’s a common misconception..
I can tell that you’re deeply triggered.
I could care less that it triggers you 🙂
Ok, which one annoys you more?
You’re terrible grammer and spelling;
Guy’s just stop it.
Its not my fualt?
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Can’t we all just agree to be excited for Rouge One? 🙂
The orginal Moulin Rogue movie was beter tbh.
Ewan McDonald’s best role.
Fuck you, Rick Berman.
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).
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I heard “big-league”.
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…
That’s what he’s referring to. Big-league as in large-scale. it’s just his own weird Trump-ism.
seeing this place on rebels would be great.
Is Jedha the planet we see in TFA that the ships fly home by after the Battle at Maz’s castle?
you mean the resistance base?
No, the planet that is partially blown away that they fly past to get to the base?
Nope. That planet, D’Qar, is a ringed planet. That *debris* is the rings of D’Qar. If you look closely, you can see it wrap around the planet and it’s shadow. It’s probably just the remnants of an old moon, or just something that looks cool, because Star Wars. 😉
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that is the resistance base planet. It has an asteroid ring… it wasn’t partially blown.
Deleted cause I didn’t read enough 🙂
That’s D’Qar, the Resistance base.
Leia DID receive some training as revealed in Aftermath 2… until Luke vanished.
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.
Note that he does not include Yoda in his list of surviving Jedi, so it’s not necessarily all-inclusive.
No, because after it was Jedha it became Tatooine, then it became Jakku.
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LOL. Love this.
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).
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.
That and Tatooine appears in all 3 prequel films lol