New The Last Jedi Cast Photo and Two Brief Shots Shown at CinemaCon!
Yesterday Disney had a presentation at the CinemaCon convention, where they talked about their upcoming projects. During the intro of the presentation they showed two brief shots from The Last Jedi and later on showed a cool cast photo from the movie, featuring all the major players.
You can see The Last Jedi cast photo shown during the presentation below, shared by AintItCool’s Eric Vespe:
Star Wars – The Last Jedi! pic.twitter.com/jqCDKcDf3z
— Eric Vespe (@EricVespe) March 29, 2017
Many fans are wondering why actors like Benicio Del Toro, Andy Serkis and Joonas Suotamo are not in the photo. I don’t think we should read too much into this. It’s a big cast team and it’s normal that some of them will be left out from it.
And here’s /Film’s Peter Sciretta brief description of the two shots shown from The Last Jedi:
Just saw a short glimpse of Star Wars: The Last Jedi footage in a sizzle reel. Rey holding the lightsaber ignited, and her moving the rocks.
— Peter Sciretta (@slashfilm) March 29, 2017
As you can see these two shots were also among The Last Jedi footage shown during Disney’s shareholders meeting from a few weeks ago. There is a big chance that we might see them in the trailer as well, which will be released during Star Wars Celebration Orlando in 2 weeks time.
We’re almost there…
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Now wondering how substantial Benicio’s role will be.
Remember when everyone thought Max Von Sydow was going to play Boba Fett or Kanan? I wouldn’t make any major guesses based on a photo but me personally I didn’t think he was going to have a major role to begin with.
Yeah, definitely. I’ve always it was a Guardians-esque moment. We will find out
Don’t forget that King Prana never received his Rathtars. My money’s on him playing that dangling plot thread from the last film…
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Prana
That wasn’t a plot thread. It was a throwaway line that makes the universe seem bigger.
Uncle Deadly’s on the warpath today.
Considering that the loss of the big players in the New Republic was implied to be a big problem in TFA and descriptions of TLJ I’m more thinking that Benicio is going to be seen in the political arena with Leia Finn and Poe. My guess is he’s one of the people helping to stabilize things but turns out to be a First Order plant who’s been on the inside for a long long time.
Then why he didn’t tell the first order the location of the secret base?
Sorry I should have been more descriptive in my theory, but if he is the political spy I think he is, I don’t think he knew the location of the secret base. In fact I’m not even sure if the location of the Resistance Base was open knowledge to the New Republic. Now I can be wrong, but from memory of the visual dictionary and the novelization of TFA I think it was founded by Leia and its base was an old rebel one. We know the New Republic knew of its existence, but I’m not sure if they knew where they were located. Either way, I guess in my theory it could still possibly work because if they didn’t know that would explain why Del Toro’s spy character didn’t know, and if they did it could just have been something he wasn’t privvy to. The way I’m thinking of him is that he’s just been a person who’s been known to our characters maybe as a good guy and is brought in to help and turns out to be a turncoat. I think it would be interesting to see something like that since I don’t think we’ve really had a character like that… well aside from good ol palpy.
But that’s a good point man, I’m honestly not sure where he could be coming from. Either way, we know we’re getting a great performance out of him, I just hope he’s used well enough which I’m sure he will be. Fingers crossed and 2 weeks before our first trailer!
Don’t be. It’s a press thing. The people who put this together didn’t read the script.
Greato daze!
But…where’s Benicio?
If you look closely you’ll notice that there’s an equal number of male and female characters. This has nothing to do with size of role and everything to do with making sure there’s the same amount of women as men. My guess is that they didn’t have another woman to offset Del Torro/Serkis so they kept the largest 8 roles of the two different sexes. I also don’t see the tall kid who plays chewie, the new little guy who plays R2 or other surely returning male charactors…
No Andy Serkis and Benicio del Toro on the cast photo, but Gwendoline Christie Phasma is here… so Phasma has a biggest role than Snoke and Del Toro?
If you want to put major stock in a press photo sure.
That would be quite a leap to make just from this. Don’t read so much into it.
Yeah but the strangest thing is: no Del Toro, he’s a new and “big” name in Episode 8…
Don’t read too much into it
I hope both Maz Kanata and Phasma have larger roles.
To me Maz is the most inrersting character to come out of Force Awakens. I hope she she shows up in rebels soon. I would love for he and Ahsoka to interact.
I could see Maz sensing Ahsoka on Malachor and going to rescue her.
She was a major player in TFA, bringing a whole new depth and stuff to the first female Stormtrooper. It was so good that it flew over my less educated head.
lol
Depth? She was a glorified action figure.
hahahahaha depth? at least you have good humor.
“It was so good that it flew over my less educated head.”
To the replies below me, the OP was clearly joking.
Two more weeks. I’ve got Chemistry and microbiology mid-semester exams to do Leading up to the 14th. IM GONNA MAKE IT!
stay on target.
I came across this on Instagram. It may not be real but it’ll do for now. I hope we see Kylo Ren in the trailer despite recent trailer descriptions suggesting otherwise.
https://instagram.com/p/BSOOtE-Fh9P/
That looks bad
Here’s the source (whatever it may be):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEsCQ1ihIIk&feature=youtu.be
i wonder if we’ll see phasma without her mask this time. star wars needs more blondes on screen.
Natural ones too, Luke don’t count.
From what I’ve seen of the rough cut, the film will be one for the ages.
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The juxtaposition of Rey and Kylo’s training is very Rocky 4ish, but it works…Having Ben fall in love with her makes perfect sense; aside from paralleling the CT, it serves a logical purpose if this is indeed the end of the saga…Lando owning a casino is just brilliance…Yoda consoling a grieving Luke is probably the most emotionally nostalgic/powerful thing in the entire film…finally seeing a character construct a lightsaber on screen = thumbs up…that beach fight scene tho…wow.
Ben?!
Just be better than TFA, All I ask. Not a hard accomplishment.
Wrong, tfa was great.
Does this mean no Lando?