Rian Johnson Shares a New Photo from The Last Jedi Set!
Just a few hours after the official Star Wars site revealed that Rian Johnson is coming to Star Wars Celebration Orlando, the director shared an image from The Last Jedi set confirming the news. Read on for the full details…
Johnson first posted the image on his Tumblr account. When he shared it on Twitter, the director gave some clarifications on what we see.
We’re coming to Orlando for a @StarWars Celebration panel on April 14th, and I cannot wait. See you there! https://t.co/dXUgGJ1BwF
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) February 15, 2017
Johnson revealed that the Stormtrooper designs have been slightly tweaked:
@raskuhl @noahpaulsavage It has been.
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) February 15, 2017
Of course the change is very subtle since it won’t make sense to have different Stromtrooper designs between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, knowing that the latter starts immediately after the first.
Also it is curious that one of the Stormtroopers is with his helmet off. Many people went on to speculate that this could be Tom Hardy, who has been rumored to play a Stormtrooper in the movie from some time now.
It seems that this is a much younger actor, although it’s really hard to tell from that image. My guess is that this is just a random guy. What do you think?
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I’m not seeing the Hardy resemblance at all. Hoping they finally announce what the third spinoff is and the timeline of the 2020’s ones.
I notice that the trooper mouths are more tapered now, where in TFA they had a consistent size going across. That’s a small change, but I dig it
The alteration is subtle, makes them look slightly more menacing. Nice.
Wouldn’t be too suprised if the change was partly due to merchandise. Now everyone will want the “new” storm troopers.
Or they are reacting to the “duck face” criticisms by making a necessary change.
Never heard the duck face thing
It’s out there. People were comparing the helmet to Donald Duck, you know, because of Disney owning Lucasfilm.
*eye roll*
Most people won’t even notice.
Good point.
If it was about merch, you’d think they’d changed it more than that.
No more duck face. https://31.media.tumblr.com/2116fb219b6ce405fe018526d03e24cd/tumblr_inline_n04pnju70O1ssbkkq.jpg
I’ve never seen it as a duck face. It never made sense to me.
duck face or not, the old helmet looked more senseful. I mean, this reminds of the clone phase I helmet. I kinda liked the older design but afterall it’s such stuble details like the changes between the originals in the Stormtrooper helmet.
Looks like they’ve fixed the hunched shoulder look. That always bothered me. And hopefully I won’t think of Daffy Duck every time I see them this time round.
I thought it was Donald Duck, but I always thought it was reaching.
I must be the only one but I’ve never seen a duck face on the helmet. Even when I do a search for it and they color in that part, it still doesn’t look like a duck to me. I just don’t see it.
Looks like not only the “mouth” part has changed, but also the eyes might be a bit more angular. I like the change. Makes them look more evil, more like the stormtroopers in the OT.
Seems like the angles have been slightly altered.
I wonder if any 501st ranking members can pick out the differences without a side-by-side.
Anyone care to do a side by side and point out the differences between the uniforms because I seriously cannot tell.
The eyes and the mouths are slightly different, and I can’t tell if it’s just the picture, but they look a little less stocky than in TFA
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Hard to say with the top of her hair cut off but… her hair is giving off a bit of a Qui-Gon/long-haired male Jedi vibe.
That’s Tom Hardy in the Stormtrooper picture.
My opinion is that the stormtrooper helmets look awesome from the side, but straight on their are too bulky at the bottom “vents” and kind of have a weird duck bill thing going on.
The mouth looks different in the new helmets. More “turned down” if that makes sense.
I like the new design. Looks like more serious. Kind of clone wars era- esque.
Only this is real and not CGI.
I can’t see Hardy in this picture at all, but definetly it’s not a random guy. Of course this photo has a purpose we don’t know yet. ;P