Star Wars: Episode VIII Has Had Its Title Since the First Draft + More Info from Rian Johnson.

It turns out that the recent story about Luke and Rey’s trials on Ahch-To being a crucial part of Star Wars Episode VIII wasn’t the only thing that director Rian Johnson had to reveal. In another interview, Johnson spoke with USA Today to explain what his approach will be on his chapter of the Sequel Trilogy. Here are five highlights regarding the movie.

 

Being Fun Over Being Darker

 

While The Empire Strikes Back has set the precedent for sequels to franchise movies being darker than their predecessors, but Rian Johnson is making it clear that he feels that having a “fun” movie that captures and builds upon what made the last one great is what really makes for a better movie.

“The creative work has felt like play. It’s felt resonant and meaningful because it meant so much to me as a kid… I want [Episode VIII] to be a blast and to be funny and to be a ride the way The Force Awakens and the original Star Wars movies were.”

John Boyega did previously note that the movie would be a darker film overall, but it’s good to see that the emphasis is on making Episode VIII feel like it’s Star Wars own over making it dark for the purpose of making it dark.

 

 

More Of The New Generation

 

Just before production on Episode VIII was set to begin in January, Johnson decided to delay it for about a month in order to apply some crucial rewrites to the script. These rewrites allegedly gave the new cast larger roles by downsizing the roles of other new characters, and as it stands, it seems like this may reflect what they’re doing.

“I wanted to know more about each of them, and that doesn’t just mean information or backstory… Figure out what’s the most difficult thing each of them could be challenged with now — let’s throw that at them and dig into what really makes them tick by seeing how they handle that.”

The Force Awakens was a strong introduction to the new cast, and it seems like focusing more on them over shifting focus to more new characters is a pretty shrewd decision. Speaking of which…

 

 

Rey Is At A Crossroads

 

Surprising absolutely nobody, Rey’s an important character to this story. What might surprise you, however, is that the character who was seemingly on top of everything in the last movie is struggling to handle the gravity of the situation as the sheer pressure of the war catches up to her.

“[Rey starts the movie] both not knowing what’s going to happen and also having a lot of expectations in her head about how this is going to go. It very much feels like what we all go through in adolescence, the dawning of this new chapter of our lives. [Deepening of familial themes are] a huge part of [Star Wars and] especially Rey’s character, something that was a really powerful part of her setup and something I really wanted to dig into with this.”

Again, they’re emphasizing how important family is to Rey, and it’s in a context where Luke plays a significant part in her story. Even if you presume that she and Luke aren’t related by blood (which is still in no way confirmed as of yet), it seems as though they’re going to form an important bond over the course of Episode VIII.

 

 

Luke Skywalker Is The Core Of The Movie

 

Luke was the focal point of the entire narrative of The Force Awakens, even though he was only present for under a minute of screen time. So it goes without saying that they’re going to greatly expand upon his role in Episode VIII.

“[Luke’s story is the] emotional entry point [of the movie]. I’m approaching [his story] with a take that I hope feels honest and real and is going to be interesting to folks and make sense.”

So much of the Sequel Trilogy’s story rests upon Luke, and I suspect that getting the character right will be one of the biggest challenges that Rian Johnson had to face in taking on the project. Hopefully, what we see in Episode VIII will make the two-year wait worthwhile.

 

 

The Movie Has (Always Had) A Name

 

Unlike what happened with The Force Awakens, Rian Johnson and company had a pretty good idea of what Episode VIII would be called before production even wrapped.

“It was in the very first draft I wrote. I’ll just blurt it out now! …All in good time, my friend.”

So in case there was any doubt at this point, the movie has its title and will have its name revealed soon (most likely before Celebration Orlando, due to the way the marketing machine works). Hopefully, it’s a little more inspired a title than something like Star Wars: All In Good Time, My Friend would be.

 

Thanks to Cantina member Magnar The Great for the heads up. Stay on target with Star Wars News Net – your Force for news for all the latest and greatest stories about the Galaxy Far, Far Away.

 

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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.

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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.

207 thoughts on “Star Wars: Episode VIII Has Had Its Title Since the First Draft + More Info from Rian Johnson.

  • January 10, 2017 at 6:21 pm
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    Unfortunately TFA was just that, a blast. I can see what Abrams was saying “we want every scene to feel relevant”. That’s where the blast comes from, and that’s what hide all the rest first time I watched it. Now you take the bluray and… buff… the screenplay feels so poor and unoriginal, as if Abrams and Kasdan were under pressure and terrified when writing.

    But they’ve got a lot of potential for Episode VIII. I hope Oscar Isaac has a deeper role (he can handle that better than Boyega IMO). We’ve got an outstanding main lead (Ridley) + Mark Hamill. I’m ready for the ride!

    • January 10, 2017 at 7:48 pm
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      “as if Abrams and Kasdan were under pressure and terrified when writing.”
      I rather think they just didnt have enough time and rushed the writing.
      Arndt left the project after 8 months of leaving nothing really more than just raw ideas. So presumably Abrams & Kasdan just didnt have enough time to develop a great story…

      • January 10, 2017 at 8:45 pm
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        What writing? The script is a bastardized version of ANH combined with ESB, with plot holes and incosistencies every two seconds. Toy figurines as characters, but they’re female and ethnically diverse. WOW great writing.

        • January 10, 2017 at 8:53 pm
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          It’s a really bad script, but imagine the situation: just sitting in a set of a Star Destroyer already built, trying to figure out the story. When Lucas started pre-production of any of the six prior films, there was an idea at least of who were the main characters and where were they going. Abrams and Kasdan had a huge deal here. They had to reset it all when the film was already under way.

          • January 10, 2017 at 9:40 pm
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            Nobody forced them to do anything, they could have walked out just like Arndt did when they gave him an impossible deadline. But JJ and Kasdan are hacks and this movie was the easiest paycheck they ever had in their lives. They didn’t care about jeopardizing the future of Star Wars with their joke of a movie. And honestly, even if these two had 10 Years toi write the movie, they’d barely produce anything better because they were never talented or creative to begin with. And Kasdan is very luck that Spielberg brought him on Indiana Jones, the guy took credit for ESB, it was all George Lucas story and Kasdan only worked on it for 2 months

          • January 10, 2017 at 9:59 pm
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            I wouldnt say they gave Arndt an impossible deadline. He was working on the script for 8 months and asked for 18 (!) more. There is no studio which could’ve provided that with a release date set. They postponed it anyways. Sure, a great story like Star Wars needs time, but 26 months?

            And clearly all the credit goes to Kasdan and Kershner for ESB. The prequels made it very clear that Lucas can’t write or direct (at least at that time period). It was probably him that got too much credit for the OT…

          • January 10, 2017 at 10:18 pm
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            When you’re trying to revive a franchise as important as Star Wars and one long thought to be finished you need time. Something Disney doesn’t understand. Marvel studios probably has them thinking they can pump greatness out every year.

          • January 10, 2017 at 11:09 pm
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            when you drop four bills on an IP there is a certain degree of pressure to produce results. it sucks, but it was also the only way to get more movies.

          • January 11, 2017 at 12:16 am
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            Even you, will eventually get tired of crappy sequels and spin-offs every year. But I guess Disney executives would have made enough money by this time.

          • January 10, 2017 at 11:40 pm
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            I think Arndt’s request was just unexpected and impossible to fulfill. Since Disney already started up its machines it would’ve been impossible to postpone the movie with years (beacuse if they’d have given Arndt the 18 extra months, at least a year and a hald delay would’ve been necessary).

            I do have high hopes towards ep VIII though. Its a different production story. The director had enough time, he’s talented and he’s eager to prove (since this is his first big budget movie).

          • January 12, 2017 at 12:18 am
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            Thank you for enlightening me on the production stuff of TFA. That actually paints a clearer picture. I’m not as forgiving as TFA as you are. While I don’t hate it, I don’t like it either way. It’s a mixed bag, more negative than positive.

            Still, I share your sentiments about Episode Eight. I’m biased as Rian Johnson is one of my favorite directors of all time. I loved Looper and Brick and he’s got a talent for doing some cool, creative stuff.

            I’m no fan of the PT, but I respect the creativity and impact, they’ve had on Legends. And I’d watch TFA in a heartbeat over most of them, minus ROTS. And Rogue One.

            Really, TFA’s screenplay isn’t that bad, but man did it need to be tweaked. The ANH parallels don’t bother me until Starkiller base. Had it been a fleet instead I doubt many would have complained.

            Because, correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t Abrams ask for an extension until January for the movie? Because, that third act is really rushed.

          • January 10, 2017 at 11:51 pm
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            Re: “Marvel studios probably has them thinking they can pump greatness out every year.”

            Wait….Marvel studios pumps out greatness every year?!

          • January 10, 2017 at 10:18 pm
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            Well, if the studios had failed to find hack like JJ Abrams and Kasdan it would have been forced to extend their deadline and stop pressuring the writer because they wanted a quick buck ASAP. Now we are left with a joke that will be followed by two other jokes. If only they gave them only a spin-off that would have been a minimal annoyance but the old cast is now ruined, and the new cast sucks big time

            And btw, no Kasdan has nothing to do with ESB, he didn’t even know what Yoda was or that Vader was Luke’s father.

          • January 10, 2017 at 10:52 pm
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            “Well, if the studios had failed to find hack like JJ Abrams and Kasdan it would have been forced to extend their deadline…”
            Maybe learn to construct a simple english sentence before criticising acclaimed artists.

            ” pressuring the writer because they wanted a quick buck ASAP.”
            You mean like what Lucas did with TPM? Pre- production almost finished and sets were being built when he didnt even have a script yet. He rushed it in one draft without thinking it through and realising it made no sense at all, so he made one of the worst big budget movies ever made followed by an even worse one…

            What Arndt asked was simply impossible. 8 months of work and barely any reslut… 18 more was just simply impossible. That would’ve meant postponing the film with at least a year and a half. Which was impossible, considering the already very tight Disney movie schedule.

            The production time was set to 3 years, which should’ve been more than enough (its longer than AOTC and ROTS’ prod. time). The studio gave Arndt at least 10-15 months for the script which is more than generous and much longer than the average (considering WB gave Ayer 6 weeks!!!!! for Suicide Squad). The fact that Kasdan and JJ managed to finish the movie with only 6 months of delay is nearly a miracle…

            And btw if Kasdan had nothing to do with ESB than there was certainly someone else, as the guy who wrote this:

            Anakin: You are so…beautiful.
            Padme: It’s only because I’m so in love.
            Anakin: No. No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
            Padme: Then love has blinded you?
            Anakin: Well…that’s not exactly what I meant.

            Has certainly nothing to do with ESB’s script…

          • January 11, 2017 at 12:18 am
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            You’re telling me the guy who wrote TFA is the same guy who wrote ESB? What happened to him, did he catch a virus that eats brain cells?

          • January 11, 2017 at 11:14 am
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            Its the same guy. What happened?
            A rushed production, JJ Reboot King Abrams,
            A much harder to create story (way too many characters, had to introduce new ones, yet also deal with the fate of the old ones, new conflict, new social-political context etc. and all this to 3 generations of SW fans and also to a brand new audience who’s never seen SW before)
            Why do you think Arndt left the project after 8 months of writing? Because It was incredibly hard to write ep VII…

            ESB in comparsion is a much smaller and relatively loose story. It was easier to create something great there.
            Also, TFA is not that bad (and incomparably better than the PT).
            The dialogues are mostly well written and there is room for a better continuation.

          • January 11, 2017 at 12:52 pm
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            Kasdan said they wrote ESB in 2 months, I don’t think this has problems with rushed production. Try again. Creating a sequel to an already know universe and characters is much more easier than starting from scratch when you have to introduce and expose everything before you can develop the story.
            The dialogue in TFA are an embarassement, a 12 years old kid would come up with deeper and higher language than the one liners we got.

          • January 11, 2017 at 2:23 pm
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            If Arndt, a very talented oscar winning writer in his prime couldn’t do it in 8 months, than 2 months for the 60+ Kasdan and the Reboot King JJ was obviously not enough. Plus, they were writing the story parallelly with the principal photography, often coming up with the ideas that day… JJ even said they were glad that principal photography wrapped a bit when Harrison Ford broke his leg, so they were finally able to polish the script. That says more than enough about the production.
            It was pretty much a nearly impossible job.

            Also, creating ep VII with new characters in a completely enviroment along with dozens of already existing ones was actually way harder than creating a new universe where you can write anything and explore whatever you want…

          • January 11, 2017 at 11:05 pm
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            They basically made up the story while filming , no wonder they ended up with a bastardized version of ANH. I can imagine them with all the sets ready and technicians waiting for JJ Abrams to shoot something and he would turn to KAsdan asking what they’re going to do. No decent director would have acceptedt o do this kind of hackjob, especially for a franchise like Star Wars

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:22 pm
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            He wrote a fun movie.

          • January 11, 2017 at 10:52 pm
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            You mean laughable

          • January 12, 2017 at 1:39 am
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            Only thing laughable here is you.

          • January 10, 2017 at 11:03 pm
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            Kasdan took over after the first draft was completed because the original writer died. The story beats were already there, it’s the dialog and character development that Kasdan brought into ESB and made it a great movie (along with Kershner’s directing).

            Kasdan might not have created the characters, but he gave them life through dialog.

          • January 11, 2017 at 12:22 am
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            Kasdan is also credited as script writer on Indiana Jones but if you read the transcript of the brainstorming session between Lucas, Spielberg and him, all the story came from Lucas and Kasdan says absolutely nothing. Writing some patche of dialogue here and there certainly didn’t make him the writer of Indian Jones or ESB. He’s an extremely lucky hack who was introduced to Lucas thanks to his connection to Spielberg. All the hacks that pillagied and ruined Lucasfilm are Spielberg’s buddies : Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams, Kasdan and that twat Shia Laboeuf. Now we can add Alden Enrecht to the list.

          • January 11, 2017 at 11:16 am
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            Well one this is for sure. Kasdan had nothing to do with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That was entirely Lucas’s fault.

          • January 11, 2017 at 12:48 pm
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            So when the movie is a failure it’s entirely Lucas fault, but when the movie is a success it’s all Spielberg, Kasdan, Kirchner? Didyou realize that Lucas was producer on Indy4 along with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall,David Koepp is the script writer and Spielberg the director. Why should’t Koepp and Spielberg take the blame for the movie if you think Kasdan and Kirshner should take credit for ESB. Explain your logic.

          • January 11, 2017 at 2:12 pm
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            “So when the movie is a failure it’s entirely Lucas fault, but when the movie is a success it’s all Spielberg, Kasdan, Kirchner?”
            Yes, pretty much, plus Gary Kurtz and the editing team of ANH. Try to use your brain a bit. The movies involved those people were all great and succesful.
            When he had full control it was an abomination. See the correlation? Or to put it more simple: Can you add 5+5?

            The blame is entirely on Lucas, because he was the one that forced the ridiculous alien (sorry, “extra-dimensional”) story. Spielberg persistently objected Lucas’s ideas until he finally accepted (I think because he felt obligated on a certain level…):
            Speilberg never wanted to make that terrible story. Here is the proof:
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE7fzr6lQ-s

          • January 11, 2017 at 2:20 pm
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            Spielberg is just an unreliable twat who tried to put the blame on Lucas, without shame. Do you know that the fridge scen was Spielberg’s idea? And who do you think brought Shia Laboeuf in the movie? It’s also Spielberg who refused several stories from Lucas because they weren’t good enough for his taste, yet he wen’t along with an alien story? What good film has Spielberg made since Jurrassic Park?

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:21 pm
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            Saving Private Ryan. Minority Report. Schindler’s List.

          • January 11, 2017 at 10:55 pm
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            SPR and MR were bad, I haven’t watched SL. SPR is an awful propaganda for the US military, I honestly wonder if Spielberg got money from the CIA to produce the movie. Lucas made an anti military saga, Spielberg is an agent of the Empire.
            Minority Report was very dull just like AI. Compare it Blade Runner who was made 20 years earlier. It’s night and day.

          • January 12, 2017 at 1:39 am
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            opinions!

          • January 11, 2017 at 4:32 pm
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            Schindler’s List? Saving Private Ryan? Münich?
            Anyways, on a certain level every Spielberg movie is good. The guy is one of the greatest directors ever worked in Hollywood. A true visual artist.

            Since we know how Lucas’s ideas turned out to be when he had full control, what Spielberg says in the video is the truth. Lucas was insisted on the terrible alien flick since the 90s to squeeze out more cash from the Indy franchise, since he is greedier than anyone in Hollywood.
            But both Spielberg and Ford resisted the turd back then. Spielberg’s son reviewd his interesst in the movie in the 2000s which I think finally convinced Spielberg to make the film despite it being a complete joke.

            Anyways Platinumstar, we’ve already had this conversation around a half year ago.
            It seems you still havent learned anything ever since and you are just as an ignorant imbecile as you’ve been back then. Talking to you is like talking to a wall… Have fun trolling until you finally get banned again.

          • January 11, 2017 at 10:52 pm
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            Look what your greatest director has released recently, the BFG. Spielberg is the greatest vanilla director, that’s why nobody rewatches old tapes of his movies unless it was produced by Lucas.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:20 pm
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            Because Lucas insisted on aliens against everyone else’s wishes.

          • January 11, 2017 at 10:56 pm
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            There’s no proof about this. And Spielberg refused all his previous stories. I doubt they were all about Aliens. WHy did he accept the worst idea? Maybe because he has no taste.

          • January 12, 2017 at 1:39 am
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            There is because several people have said it. It’s common knowledge. This movie was years in the making and this is why it took so long.

          • January 12, 2017 at 9:21 am
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            It took so long because Spielberg refused several stories and then said they finally had a good script when it was that horrible Indy4 movie. And he brought that annoying Shia Laboeuf on board and got stupid ideas that the nuke fridge, yet people will blame everything on Lucas.

          • January 12, 2017 at 3:47 pm
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            Not everything, but he was a contributor.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:20 pm
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            Yeah, people come up with ideas and the writer puts them in script form. It’s how it works and it’s not as easy you think.

          • January 11, 2017 at 10:57 pm
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            Well, most script writer write the whole story. Kasdan was just an employee whose job was to fill blanks in the story.

          • January 12, 2017 at 1:38 am
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            You clearly have no idea what you speak of.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:53 am
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            If you read the differences between Brackett’s and completed version, there isn’t much in common. Lucas gave her credit as an honor.

          • January 11, 2017 at 1:00 pm
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            I think Kasdan is wrongfully taking credit for both Indian Jones and ESB. Read the Indiana jones brainstorming transcript to figure this out. And Kasdan didn’t understand the concept of Yoda, he thought it was a Jedi warrior, he didn’t know Vader was Luke’s father. Writing a couple of dialogue in a movie doesn’t make you the script writer. Kasdan had connections to Spielberg, that’s the only reason he had the luck to be associated with these movies. His personal best success is “Bodyguard”, the script is a joke, the movie was a success only because it was starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston at the peak of their fame

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:17 pm
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            “And btw, no Kasdan has nothing to do with ESB, he didn’t even know what Yoda was or that Vader was Luke’s father.”

            Just stop. You are embarrassing yourself.

          • January 10, 2017 at 10:22 pm
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            And what’s really sad is that I’m sure the majority of the material in the art of the force awakens book, which provided new and fresh ideas for the franchise, is probably from Ardnt’s version, which is something we will now never know.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:17 pm
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            A lot of that is from concept artists who were drawing things to generate ideas.

          • January 10, 2017 at 10:36 pm
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            I was always under the impression the overall story arc was Lucas’s concepts, but the writing was refined by others (Lucas’s wife at the time I believe had a huge influence on ANH). I’m excited to see what comes, but a part of me will always regret his overall concepts being dropped for the new trilogy.

            Can’t argue on his ability to direct…

          • January 10, 2017 at 11:47 pm
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            Yes, of course it overall story is Lucas’s (because he’s always had fantastic ideas), but Kasdan shaped it into context. At the time when most sequels failed (like American Graffiti 2) a good writer and director was crucial, otherwise SW could’ve been ruined very easely…

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:16 pm
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            Marcia Lucas was big in editing ANH, not so much writing.

          • January 11, 2017 at 6:15 pm
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            In my experience editing is an amazing tool in bringing someone’s writing up to standard and gives a fresh pair of eyes on concepts that shouldn’t pass through to a finished product .

          • January 11, 2017 at 8:54 pm
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            Right, but she edited the finished film, specifically the Death Star battle at the end.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:15 pm
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            “And Kasdan is very luck that Spielberg brought him on Indiana Jones, the guy took credit for ESB, it was all George Lucas story and Kasdan only worked on it for 2 months”

            THIS…this right here…proves you don’t have a damn clue what you are talking about. Doesn’t even make sense.

            Kasdan was lucky Spielberg brought him on Indiana Jones? But he still had to produce a great script, which he did. So how was he lucky?
            George set out the story, but Kasdan wrote the script. It’s why Empire has the best dialogue and character moments.

            Only 2 months? Wow, he is talented!

          • January 12, 2017 at 1:38 am
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            Kasdan wrote it. This is a brainstorm meeting. Know your facts.

          • January 12, 2017 at 9:22 am
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            Obviously you’re in denial and will even refuse factual elements because you know I’m right about Kasdan.

          • January 12, 2017 at 3:47 pm
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            Everyone knows Kasdan wrote it except you b/c you can’t understand basic writing processes.

        • January 10, 2017 at 9:27 pm
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          What a great movie review; both original and insightful.

        • January 10, 2017 at 9:55 pm
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          What is your point? Even if its not great writing, its still writing…

        • January 11, 2017 at 3:14 pm
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          Name some plot holes and inconsistencies

          • January 12, 2017 at 1:37 am
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            Okay, I am going to read these and when I get to the first one that is not a plothole, I am stopping…here we go.

            Number one is a not a plot hole.

            “3| “The FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire”

            A. It is not “First” in any sense.”

            This is a dumb list. Try again

          • January 12, 2017 at 9:26 am
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            No it’s not dumb. It means the Empire is bound to come back no matter how many times it gets defeated by the heroes. It creates a major problem. What’s the point of fighting the Empire if it can reapper out of nowhere, stronger than ever only a couple of years after you have defeated it.
            This movie was extremely depressing and is the exact opposite of episode IV which was about hope. TFA is about despair. Obviously the writers and people who enjoyed the movie are way too dumb to see the implication of the First Order being exactly as powerful as the former Empire.

          • January 12, 2017 at 3:47 pm
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            Evil is never truly defeated. And the First Order is smaller and not as powerful as the Empire. So…no.

          • January 12, 2017 at 6:07 pm
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            Yeah right, that’s why they came with Star Destroyer fleets and armies of troopers raised from early age and even built a superweapon that can destroy entire systems in an instant. Out of nowhere, without the republic notiving anything that was building up. This stuff belongs to morning cartoons, the true calling of JJ Abrams. And I ‘m nice because he actually shoud have never been allowed near a camera

          • January 12, 2017 at 8:40 pm
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            They still aren’t as large as the Empire. That’s why the Republic can keep them in check. Until the Republic fleet gets blown up.

            But that kind of nuance requires critical thinking skills. I guess that Saturday morning cartoon was too complex for you.

          • January 12, 2017 at 9:07 pm
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            The same republic that has been vaporized by the Death Star, I mean the starkiller base…

          • January 12, 2017 at 9:31 pm
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            This is a non-response. You are done.

    • January 10, 2017 at 7:51 pm
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      Didn’t JJ acknowledge it was a bit of a rushed job. A pity it didn’t have more time and some ideas better thought out. Still its done the job of getting people interested, so we can all look forward to VIII.

      • January 10, 2017 at 11:49 pm
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        Re: “Still its done the job of getting people interested, so we can all look forward to VIII”

        I remember the days, way-back-when, when a movie’s job wasn’t to get “people interested” …but to instead stand on its own as a film, a complete experience, independent of what came before/comes after.

        • January 11, 2017 at 2:40 am
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          “I remember the days…”

          And that’s when I stopped listening.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:59 am
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            Cues thoughts of the Dana Carvey grumpy old man skit.

        • January 11, 2017 at 9:19 am
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          Well yes, but this is how I cope with TFA……. 🙂

        • January 11, 2017 at 3:12 pm
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          And it did for some and it didn’t for others.

    • January 10, 2017 at 10:14 pm
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      It was relying on nostalgia and hype..and now that the hype cleared you can notice the film for what it really is.

    • January 10, 2017 at 11:21 pm
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      so basically: this movie entertained me, but i need to rewatch it a hundred times to nitpick flaws. dude, if you enjoyed the film, what does it matter? these are supposed to be fun adventure films, not citizen kane. i think because we love it so much we forget that(myself included).

  • January 10, 2017 at 6:29 pm
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    Typo in the headline, lol. The first DARFT?

    • January 10, 2017 at 6:30 pm
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      Not judging or criticizing, just chuckling.

      • January 10, 2017 at 6:36 pm
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        Corrected. Thanks.

    • January 10, 2017 at 6:38 pm
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      Yeah, it’s an insider nod to the fact that Darft Vada is in Episode VIII 😀

  • January 10, 2017 at 8:07 pm
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    “I want [Episode VIII] to be a blast and to be funny and to be a ride”
    Yes, thank you. It seems Rian Johnson understood what made Star Wars so great.
    It was a fun movie! And by fun I dont mean the brainless, crowdpleasing Marvel-like flcks with the one-liners, but a creative story with well written and executed humour.
    To quote Irwin Kershner they need humour, not gags…

    I think epsiode VII slightly overdid the comedy, so if they tone that down a little bit imo it’ll be perfect.

  • January 10, 2017 at 8:17 pm
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    The more I think about it…JJ really left a mess for Rian Johnson to pickup! With a cliffhanger, he will start VIII exactly where VII left off, but that hurts the crawl (a YouTube crawl I saw: “Literally nothing has happened”). And I think he needs to explain the plot holes that JJ left, like First Order origin, what planets they destroyed and why, the Knights of Ren and Snoke, and of course Rey’s parentage.
    But…it’s also a powerful opportunity, right?

    • January 10, 2017 at 8:55 pm
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      The crawl may talk about what’s happening out of Anch to (first order gathering somewhere etc…). I’m very curious what he’s done. I’m sure it’s going to be good.

    • January 10, 2017 at 9:25 pm
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      The things you listed as “plot holes” aren’t plot holes. We didn’t know the Emperor’s origin when Star Wars was first released. Was that a plot hole? We knew very little about Boba Fett. Plot hole? We had no idea what ultimately caused Vader to fall to the Dark Side. Plot hole? Just because we’re not given the entire, exhaustive history of things in movies, hardly qualifies them for such.

      • January 10, 2017 at 11:52 pm
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        Not to mention Luke wasnt even Vader’s son when they released ANH… Nor was Leia his twin sister when they released ESB…

        • January 11, 2017 at 1:15 am
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          Exactly. Most folks don’t realize how much of the story Lucas made up as he went along. But, you know, plot holes…plot holes everywhere!

    • January 10, 2017 at 9:41 pm
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      Rian wrote his screenplay during Ep7 filming, and I’m positive that JJ followed the writing process since the beginning. The lack of information is clearly intentional: those two guys (three with Colin) knew from the very first drafts what to tell and what not. Just… trust them.

    • January 10, 2017 at 11:46 pm
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      Agree with some of what you said….except “plot hole”, you keep using that – I don’t think it means what you think it means. 😉

      • January 11, 2017 at 12:00 am
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        Yeah, I don’t mean like a mistake/discontinuity, but
        something unrevealed about the plot.

        • January 11, 2017 at 12:21 am
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          Understood.
          Just teasing about “plot hole”, as that does have a more specific/different meaning.

          There is a lot of be revealed / understood about mysteries left unanswered in TFA.

          Agree completely that JJ left an awkward ending w/o much flexibility for Rian, who is nearly forced to start-up exactly where TFA left-off. As well, as you stated, makes the opening crawl seem ridiculous.

    • January 11, 2017 at 2:38 am
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      “like First Order origin, what planets they destroyed and why, the Knights of Ren and Snoke, and of course Rey’s parentage”

      Those are unanswered questions, not plotholes.

    • January 11, 2017 at 6:53 am
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      I totally understand where you are coming from. I was left unsatisfied with TFA’s open ended questions. I get there is a fine line, as I’m okay with Luke, Snoke and Kylo/ Knights of Ren being unanswered.

      But something as simple as some context/ politics about the world was needed. Not much ,as in ANH and Rogue One, but needed. It’s even worse when the New Canon did a better job and it isn’t acknowledged in the Saga films.

      Though, I cannot complain too much as I did enjoy Rogue One’s interconnected stuff/ the movie. But I’m fairly confident in Rian’s ability to handle this.

      I despise Abrams as a director, but Rian is actually very good at explaining things, without actually feeling like large exposition dumps. Looper, in my view, actually did this very well with flashbacks.

      I expect we’re going to see that. My only fear is that this could hurt the movie to where the main narrative stops at a crawl. Because, if I am to be critical of Looper, that movie does take a bit to get rolling.

      As for the crawl, I do see it being something that could work. Perhaps, as some kind of psuedo recap/ explanation of what happened with the First Order/ New Republic. Kind of like Empire.

      Overall, you have very legitimate concerns and I’d too be nervous. But I’m willing to put my faith in Rian Johnson. I’m biased, but I do love him as a director.

  • January 10, 2017 at 8:31 pm
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    If you already have a title for the movie, why wait to release it? Why delay the inevitable?

  • January 10, 2017 at 8:49 pm
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    Hope they don’t wait until celebration to even give us a title

    • January 10, 2017 at 9:29 pm
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      I’d be totally okay with that. It’s only a few months away and I’ll be there. I don’t attend Celebrations to be there for news-drops – that’s sort of dumb – but it’ll make a fun time even that much better.

      • January 11, 2017 at 3:08 am
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        Oh I don’t either, I meant more that for me I’ll already be insanely pumped for the (most likely) release of a teaser for Episode 8 and whatever else, so if they also released the title in the same moment then then it would be like having your birthday on Christmas, amazing- but I’d rather spread out the excitement rather than having months of non-story quotes and then all the info at once. Just a personal preference I suppose.

        • January 11, 2017 at 3:32 am
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          I gotcha. Are you going to Celebration? I wonder who else that comments here is going. I’ll be arriving Thursday night and heading back to Cleveland on Sunday. It’ll be my fourth Celebration. I’m pretty stoked.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:36 am
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            Indeed! I watch the stream / news cycle every year but this is the first celebration I am actually going to in person! So excited! I’ll be arriving Thursday as well! Looking forward to bumping into a lot of SWNN people in person 🙂

          • January 11, 2017 at 4:16 am
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            It’s a blast. Forget the news drops and exclusive stuff. I go to see old friends, hang out, talk shop, and have a few beers with my Star Wars friends from all over the world. I’m staying at the Rosen Centre and probably hovering around the collector panel events.

          • January 11, 2017 at 3:10 pm
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            I will be there.

          • January 11, 2017 at 6:09 pm
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            Nice. Let’s touch base closer to the event. I’m staying at the Rosen Centre and will be around the bar hanging out with vintage collectors in the evening and sort of hovering at the collector panels during most of the day.

          • January 11, 2017 at 6:12 pm
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            I am in Tampa so I will be driving over and staying with my brother most likely. We will keep in touch

    • January 10, 2017 at 9:50 pm
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      They won’t. As it stands, they’re already in the process of manufacturing merchandise specifically to release at the convention. Think about it for a moment – if the movie’s name is plastered on everything that they’ve made, then it would be an utter nightmare for LFL to prevent the name from leaking out before the official announcement occurred.

      Plus, from a marketing standpoint, announcing the movie’s actual title ahead of the convention is better for headlines. Outlets aren’t going to call the movie “Episode VIII” for much longer, so getting the other name out there is better to help the movie gain traction.

      – Pomojema

  • January 10, 2017 at 9:40 pm
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    THEN TELL US THE DANG NAME

    • January 10, 2017 at 9:51 pm
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      Soon.

      – Pomojema

    • January 11, 2017 at 5:22 am
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      lol

  • January 10, 2017 at 10:37 pm
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    I hope the name isn’t lame.

    • January 10, 2017 at 11:42 pm
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      Re: “I hope the name isn’t lame.”
      No blame, but that would be a shame.

      • January 11, 2017 at 12:28 am
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        no I hope its an exciting or mysterious title. Not some generic one. Like Revenge of the Sith sounds exciting and Return of the Jedi sounds mysterious and exciting. Like that.

        • January 11, 2017 at 1:57 am
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          Me, same!

  • January 10, 2017 at 10:58 pm
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    Star Wars Episode VIII: Guardians of the Whills

    • January 11, 2017 at 5:34 am
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      STAR WARS EPISODE VIII: I’M ONE WITH THE FORCE THE FORCE IS WITH ME

  • January 10, 2017 at 11:11 pm
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    hope is kindled.

  • January 10, 2017 at 11:29 pm
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    “i enjoyed TFA.”

    That is the most important sentence. and now in 11 months we are getting a sequel to a film most of us enjoyed and is written and directed by a guy most of us like. what more could we want?

  • January 10, 2017 at 11:40 pm
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    Re: “Hopefully, what we see in Episode VIII will make the two-year wait worthwhile.”

    Two-year wait…. back-in-my day we had to wait THREE years & we were ***happy about it!!
    Oh yeah…& we didn’t get another SW **story in-between to tide us over – dag-nabbit!

    [ **Note: Holiday Special & Ewoks most definitely does not count. ***I lied, we weren’t happy about it. 😉 ]

  • January 11, 2017 at 12:03 am
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    Star Wars Episode VIII: Darth Grandma’s Boy Lives!! ;^)

    • January 11, 2017 at 6:43 am
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      You just made my night. 🙂 Thank you.

    • January 11, 2017 at 6:52 am
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      Wouldn’t it be Grandpa’s boy in this case?

  • January 11, 2017 at 1:00 am
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    Shouldn’t the force get dressed first?

    • January 12, 2017 at 12:09 am
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      Maybe, the Force likes to eat breakfast in its birthday suit. 🙂

  • January 11, 2017 at 1:02 am
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    Only in star wars do we find the fans so excited over what the movie’s title is going to be XD I must know!
    I wonder if it will still continue with force themes, or if it will focus more on the galaxy as a whole, or even on one character like “A New Hope” was

  • January 11, 2017 at 1:47 am
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    The Force should take a shower before it goes to bed. lol

  • January 11, 2017 at 1:59 am
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    They couldn’t reveal the title sooner as they want to avoid spoilers, it’s a very unimaginative:
    “Luke’s Daughter Returns”
    😉
    j/k aside… Since title was set-in-stone early on, I’m guessing it’s a very meaningful title, reflecting the story arc. Can’t wait to learn what it is! [ as Robert said, below, only SW fans are this excited about a ‘title’ – hehe ]

  • January 11, 2017 at 2:04 am
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    I gues the name will be “EP VIII This is Not The Empire Strikes Back (Member the Empire Strikes Back? Member Yoda? Member Cloud City?) ” — it´s a long name but very suitable

  • January 11, 2017 at 3:25 am
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    Here are some more lame titles to add to the list:
    – “Star Wars Episode VIII: Not Rogue Two”
    – “Star Wars: The F8 Of The Force”
    – “Star Wars: 8 Leads to Suffering”

    • January 11, 2017 at 4:37 am
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      i actually kinda like fate of the force… and the eight in fate just makes it even better. 😉

    • January 11, 2017 at 9:45 am
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      That’s gold 🙂

  • January 11, 2017 at 3:33 am
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    The crawl will be about the First Order regrouping and preparing to lash out as Kylo Ren completes the final tests of his training, the Resistance rising to aid the crippled Republic, all while a student undertakes her first lessons with her new teacher…

    • January 11, 2017 at 4:39 am
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      i hope that we get to see a little dark side training rather than skipping it in text.

      • January 11, 2017 at 4:42 am
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        I can personally promise you that you will.

      • January 12, 2017 at 1:57 am
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        Yeah. The juxtaposition of having Rey and Ren trained simultaneously in over lapping sequences seems a hard one to pass up.

    • January 11, 2017 at 6:42 am
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      I hope so. I really want to know the stakes of this conflict. I’m a bit peeved it is essentially the OT’s conflict. But knowing Rian, he’s going to do something different with this conflict. A lot of the movies he’d picked, like Twelve O clock Orange high, suggests this conflict is going to be something very big.

      Could it be that the New Republic and Resistance team up to fight the First Order? It makes sense as the NR captial was obliterated. and really it would do well to flesh out the world.

      Also, I could see this truce being an uneasy one, especially if the NR’s depiction are kind of snotty and full of themselves. As for Kylo Ren, his training will be interesting to see.

      I’ll be most interested to see how Luke’s involvement in this movie shapes the conflict.

    • January 11, 2017 at 8:18 am
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      ..and the parallel training of both.

    • January 11, 2017 at 8:18 am
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      They had to continue it immediately afterwards, JJ and Kasdan putting Luke at the very end of the movie pretty much dictated it.

      • January 11, 2017 at 3:08 pm
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        No, they can do whatever they want.

        • January 11, 2017 at 4:01 pm
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          Then we would have missed her training.

          • January 11, 2017 at 4:11 pm
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            No, they can do whatever they want. They can jump forward a week or a month. They pick up right where it left off and THEN jump forward. They can do whatever they want.

    • January 11, 2017 at 6:39 pm
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      to tie in the 30 minutes we missed of Ren being saved…

  • January 11, 2017 at 4:45 am
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    “Episode VIII: How I met your mother”
    Could be?
    Although it sounds familiar to me…

  • January 11, 2017 at 5:18 am
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    The sequel doesn’t always have to be darker… I know it’s a game series but Uncharted started out as a romp. Then upped the ante and made an even better romp… then got dark and somber for nearly two titles. It worked.

  • January 11, 2017 at 6:20 am
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    I had thought last week that MAYBE Lucasfilm would release the title during the NCAAF National Title game yesterday, or at least mention it’s coming soon……since ESPN/ABC/Disney are all shared networks, but I was wrong. (as usual)

    • January 11, 2017 at 7:32 am
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      It’s bigger than American Sports…

    • January 11, 2017 at 3:07 pm
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      They don’t typically release a title in a commercial. It’s a press release.

  • January 11, 2017 at 6:37 am
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    I’m really looking forward to learning the title of this movie. I’ll be honest; The Force Awakens was kind of lame. I get why as it was Rey’s power. But really, I always pictured the Force snoozing and it being awakened by an alarm clock.

    The OT titles, I always liked because they always gave you a sense of the mood. A New Hope is uplifting amid darkness. Empire is the opposite with darkness smashing down the light. Return of the Jedi is triumphant and epic.

    The PT titles were a mixed bag, ATC, being horrible. Though, ROTS is great. As for what the title for Episode Eight could be, I’ll be fine with most things. I’m prvy to Echoes of the Dark Side as that sounds amazing.

    I just hope it isn’t Fall of the Resistance. It’s a bit too similiar to Empire, even though I doubt that the movie will be like that. As for what Rian said with the characters that made me smile.

    I know, this is all very premature of me, but really knowing his prior work I really am pumped to see how these new characters are like. TFA, may have been a rocky start for many, like myself. But these are quality actors.

    And with some stellar writing, they can shine. And speaking of shining, I’m most curious to see Luke. Mark Hamill, I contend is a really good actor. In my view, I’m kind of surprised he didn’t do much after SWs.

    Though, his VA jobs have helped him. Still, I’m looking forward to seeing what Luke is like as this will be the first time we’ll get to see him since ROTJ. That’s a long time.

    • January 11, 2017 at 4:51 pm
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      Or Order of the Dark Side.

      • January 12, 2017 at 12:07 am
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        That sounds really cool too.:)

  • January 11, 2017 at 7:16 am
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    Title is TSH, formally TLJ.

    • January 11, 2017 at 9:42 am
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      “The Severed Hand”?

      As in, Luke’s severed hand, from which Rey was cloned, which explains her fast learning curve?

      “The Second Han”? (Maybe Leia cloned a backup copy, in case the original died.)

      When you say “formally TLJ”, do you mean “formerly”, as in it used to be TLJ? The Last Jedi?

      • January 11, 2017 at 4:01 pm
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        Srry, it would be a disservice to others here. You’ll find out in a few short months, though.

        • January 11, 2017 at 9:55 pm
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          The Sacred Heir

          or

          The Sassy Hat-lady

        • January 11, 2017 at 11:35 pm
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          Ha! You gave a time frame last year for this (and it has passed without a reveal).

          “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… you can’t can’t get fooled again :)”

          • January 12, 2017 at 12:47 am
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            Not my call.

          • January 12, 2017 at 12:59 am
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            You can understand my skepticism, given the enormous volume of false info regarding anything Star Wars on the internet…

            That said, you don’t strike me as an attention-seeking troll. Your posts are rational and not argumentative, hence why I’m inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt here.

            You’re either telling the truth, or you’re a whole new breed of troll 🙂

            How about you type in the title in reply to this message, then delete it straight away? See if I can catch it? Even the 2nd or 3rd word? Come on… live a little!

          • January 12, 2017 at 1:03 am
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            I understand. /
            Can’t. Though it is very serial.

      • January 12, 2017 at 12:49 am
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        It’s not something easily guessable, but it is very serial.

  • January 11, 2017 at 7:20 am
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    Star Wars episode VIII: The shadow apprentice

    • January 11, 2017 at 8:16 am
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      Two of those words are right..

    • January 11, 2017 at 4:49 pm
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      Too Phantom Menace(y).

      • January 15, 2017 at 12:09 am
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        Yea

  • January 11, 2017 at 7:30 am
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    They better have a damn convincing reason why Luke didn’t interfere and try to save Han. It goes against his character, unless his interference would mean that a redemption of Kylo Ren would not occur (which presume will happen in Episode 9).

    • January 11, 2017 at 7:33 am
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      Yeah, he left him Solo. 😀

    • January 11, 2017 at 9:57 am
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      I just hope there is a good reason for his exile in general. I’m hoping / assuming that there is a critical reason why Luke needed to find the first Jedi temple to defeat snoke rather than Luke just being too sad and letting his friends die while he looked at old stone huts

    • January 11, 2017 at 6:35 pm
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      That was part of what was wrong with TFA…After years of seeing such a strong Luke in the EU, we were presented with someone who lost an entire academy to a weak, and whiny Ren.

      And I feel Luke’s intro into TFA would have been much better if he had been the one, that the lightsaber flew to while in the woods after Han’s death. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN EPIC! Stopping Ren, saving his child…

      • January 12, 2017 at 1:54 am
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        And we lost the entire galaxy to “I hate sand, this is pod racing, noooooooooo!” Ani Skywalker. Ren wasn’t that bad.

        • January 12, 2017 at 4:56 am
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          To be fair…he was much more compelling in 3. I’ll admit I cringe in episode 1 at all young Ani scenes. Ren was just such a weak shadow of Jacen, that I couldn’t buy in. Maybe I’m too much of a geek! But, I’ve such high hopes for 8.

          • January 13, 2017 at 5:19 am
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            He was. But I take all three films and weigh the Skywalker at the end and how he got there. I really liked Ren in VII, I guess it’s just opinion. He didn’t seem whiny to me. More unhinged.

          • January 13, 2017 at 2:24 pm
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            I just hope now they have all their need to try and retell out of their system and deliver something really worthy. I have high hopes because Rogue One is possibly my favorite of them all at this point.

          • January 26, 2017 at 4:30 am
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            He’s a Skywalker! He’s supposed to be whiny and douchey.

          • January 26, 2017 at 4:29 am
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            Ren is awesome.

      • January 15, 2017 at 6:35 am
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        Would have lost my mind with epicness! Though I am curious where the new road leads. I don’t think luke lost the academy to a 1-vs-1 fight with kylo. If Rey’s vision is of the academy’s fall then it was the entire kights of Ren attacking at one, probabbly a sneak attack when luke was away or had his guard down looking for the first jedi temple. Either way though, I will be very miffed if we don’t get at least ONE epic moment of luke wrecking bad guys in this new trilogy with saber / force. I miss GRANDMASTER overpowered luke lol

        • January 15, 2017 at 7:06 pm
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          If rumors are true, he wipes KOR in 8…1 at a time in a huge battle! Please be true!

    • January 12, 2017 at 12:06 am
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      I don’t blame you. There better be a good explaination as to why Luke left. My single biggest fear is that Luke essentially became a Yoda 2.0. NO. Just no. In the OT(I’m not even citing Legends), one of the most defining aspects of Luke Skywalker was his reluctance to never give up.

      We saw this in ANH, but especially Empire where he’d found the will to live even after finding out Vader was his own father. And when you consider how he was gambling the entire galaxy to save his own father, yeah Luke is a paragon when it comes to a nearly indomitable will.

      And while it is very understandable why Luke would be sad;I mean his own nephew destroyed his creation. He shouldn’t give up. Rather, have a plan. It is why a part of me really wishes that he went into hiding for the purpose of secretly locating/training Jedi on Ach-too so as to hide from the First Order/ Knights of Ren and take the fight to them.

      Or something big like that. Because, the idea of a map seems really weird. I trust Rian will explain it, but that doesn’t excuse TFA’s ability to play it loose.

      If anything, it should have been some hidden recorded message. that would make sense.

  • January 11, 2017 at 12:24 pm
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    Still find it hard to believe that, in the context of the story, Luke just packed up and walked away from everyone as opposed to doing a Ben Kenobi and keeping at a safe distance but able to intervene if required.Instead, choosing a Yoda type existence.

    • January 11, 2017 at 6:31 pm
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      maybe someone was watching over her all these years…Maybe Max Von Sydow’s character???

      of course I’m hoping to see an EU Luke appear in 8 as well.

  • January 11, 2017 at 6:27 pm
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    So, has the ‘Forces of Destiny’ trademark been debunked or does that still hold potential promise?

    • January 11, 2017 at 8:14 pm
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      They wouldn’t go Force Awakens then Forces of Destiny. Plus that’s the most cheesy name I have ever heard. It’s probably a mobile game or something.

      • January 12, 2017 at 1:52 am
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        Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones are major cheese. Still worked.

  • January 11, 2017 at 7:19 pm
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    JJ left Johnson a very hard task. I just can’t really think of any possible valid reason why Luke would deny to help Han and the Resistance and live in exile.

    Maybe he is unable to leave the planet?

    • January 11, 2017 at 8:15 pm
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      Why didn’t Yoda go to help the Rebellion if it consisted of his old friends?

      • January 11, 2017 at 8:36 pm
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        Because episode V was made earlier thats why, so they kind of have some validation. Ofc It makes no sense him just giving up after his first battle with Sidious (where he did pretty well).
        But they dont have this excuse for the ST.

    • January 12, 2017 at 1:38 am
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      He has a bad motivator

    • January 12, 2017 at 1:52 am
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      He feels personally responsible for another Skywalker falling to the Dark side.

      That failure led to the deaths of however many pupils he had training at his new praxeum.

      He feels that he is more of a liability than an asset in a new war due to these failings.

      Isn’t hard to imagine at all.

      • January 12, 2017 at 10:42 am
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        Even considering that, I still think is very out of character him leaving his friends and sister fight alone against people who are searching for him…

        • January 13, 2017 at 5:18 am
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          The death of his families legacy and that of the Jedi’s as well. No problem processing that at all.

  • January 11, 2017 at 9:27 pm
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    I’ve got some Rey lineage speculation to get some help with. It’s a two parter. First I was doing what probably everyone else was which was rearranging last names to see if that gives a clue to her origin but I think I was grasping at straws. I figured like a lot of us did when we first got the name Kylo Ren that he was going to be the son of Han and Leia because of the obvious S(ky)walker + So(lo). With that in mind I tried to apply the same logic to Rey which is pullable from Sk(y)walk(e)(r). However the rest of the letters are useless with respect to creating anything else. I then tried to do the same thing assuming maybe Luke and a daughter of Obi-Wan’s were her parents. And the only reason I did this was because it worked somewhat considering the original name for Rey was Kira which can be pulled from (K)enob(i) + Skyw(a)lke(r).

    Anyways the second part is that I am starting to think it’s possible that Rey is not even her real name. It could have been given to her from whoever was raising her on Jakku after she was dropped off which would also make sense if she was related to one of those important families as it would add another layer of hiding her identity. My only piece of evidence toward this is the fact that when it comes to the heroes and villains of the Star Wars Episodic films, if memory serves me correctly there is never more than one person with a given name. There’s only one Luke, Leia, Anakin, Padme, etc. The first and only “repeat” you can use to debunk this is Ben Solo, but even then its a kind of a stretch if you go with the fact that Obi-Wan was not born with the name Ben and its just a nickname for him. Currently in the new cannon of novels we already have another Rey. Rae Sloane in the Aftermath series. If our new heroine is so important and one of the key figures of the sequel trilogy I would expect her to have a unique name unto herself that only she carries. But as of now there are two. Granted this is really a stretch through and through, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she finds out her true namesake isn’t Rey and its just short for something else like Ben was short for something else.

    • January 12, 2017 at 1:21 am
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      I don’t think it’s another anagram. Rey means King which implies royalty which leads us straight to princess Leia. When the movie posters first came out for TFA I assumed that Rey and Kylo would be twins like Luke and Leia. I’m sticking with that theory until the next movie reveals otherwise.

      • January 12, 2017 at 1:27 am
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        I felt the same way from the start as well to tell the truth. While they can’t be twins because of the 10 year age difference though I still thought they’d be siblings, especially from the first watch of the movie on opening night. I went down that other rabbit hole in the off chance that for some reason we could be wrong. JJ said we haven’t seen her parents yet but this is probably just another John Harrison thing, and if he was willing to do that for Star Trek you’d have to be crazy not to think he’d drop some hard lies straight up about Star Wars lineage questions.

      • January 24, 2017 at 2:16 pm
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        Yes, and TFA had strong connections to Arthurian tales and if we go by that then Rey is Arthur and Kylo is Morgan Le Fay and they are half siblings. Perhaps Leia, like her grandmother, gave birth to a child of the force, perhaps that was a contributing factor to the breakup of her marriage to Han.

  • January 12, 2017 at 1:15 am
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    Episode 8: Don’t Anger the Wookie. Plot will be focused on Chewbacca ripping off Kylo’s arm.

  • January 12, 2017 at 1:42 am
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    Episode VIII : The Last Jedi

    • January 23, 2017 at 9:18 pm
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      Just on the off-chance, wanna call ep IX too? 🙂

      • January 23, 2017 at 10:04 pm
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        Well statistically I’m bound to be way off. I will take a guess nearer the time but I’d have to see Episode VIII a couple of times before I would hazard a guess.

        This one came about because I watched Force Awakens again after Carrie Fisher passed away and during the movie I think it was Kylo Ren who referred to Luke as “The Last Jedi”…then with the knowledge that 7 ends where it does and 8 is said to pick right up from the same moment it just seemed to make sense.

        • January 24, 2017 at 7:47 am
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          Redemption of the Sith

          • January 24, 2017 at 10:25 pm
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            Can they really be redeemed, I guess Vader was in the end. Not sure Kylo Ren can be..or even if he is a Sith ?

          • January 25, 2017 at 4:10 am
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            Good call! Wow!

            What about Episode IX??

          • January 25, 2017 at 11:04 pm
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            Ask me in a year

  • January 12, 2017 at 3:24 pm
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    If they have downsized the roles of Phasma, Hux and Ren I am going to shit myself.

    • January 26, 2017 at 4:18 am
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      In the theater hopefully.

  • January 13, 2017 at 3:48 pm
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    I got a title guess for episode 9 haha
    “Avenge Of The Light” cause like
    6 was ” Return Of The Jedi”
    and 3 was “Revenge Of The Sith”
    it stays in theme

    • January 15, 2017 at 6:30 am
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      It would have to be “Vengeance of the light” but not a bad guess, I like it. My personal hope is for “Journal of the Wills”

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