Rumor: Details on a Battle on a Newly Named Planet.

Not that long ago, a report suggested that The Last Jedi was going to have a specific type of vehicle appear in one of the movie’s key action sequences. Now, we’ve got details on what kind of planet this big battle is set to take place on, along with the return of a fan-favorite ship design that will return for the fight.

 

Mild spoilers ahead.

 

Making Star Wars is on the ball again with The Last Jedi stories. They previously mentioned that there will be a sequence involving First Order’s “gorilla walkers” (apparently called the “AT-4X” according to their sources). As it turns out, this new planet is called “Crait” (codenamed “Crete”, which was the site of a major World War II battle). If that name seems familiar, then you’ve either been reading Wookieepedia or Ultimate Star Wars – it’s the name of a planet where a minor skirmish occurred during the Galactic Civil War. So it’s not quite a new planet name, it’s just one we haven’t seen attached to a specific planet before. If you want a visual of what it might look like before VFX work is factored into the equation, then here’s a BTS photo that leaked not that long ago:

 

 

This scene was filmed in Bolivia on the Salar de Uyuni salt flat. MSW is saying that, although the salt flat looks plenty alien an environment on its own, Rian Johnson wants to make sure that there are more to the planet’s visuals than just that. The VFX shots and work that was done at Pinewood Studios will also add large swaths of black rocks to this environment, with lava seeping out of the various rock formations. They’re also not sure if Bolivia’s saline surface will be treated salt or snow in the movie, although the presence of Snow Troopers suggests the latter. Details on Crait are limited, but apparently the background lore establishes that the planet was a Rebel Alliance base which was converted into a Resistance decades after the Galactic Civil War. The Resistance have been mining the planet’s gems, which they sell to fund their operations.

 

Now, before you start screaming “A battle with walkers on a snow planet while the good guys have to defend their stronghold? Oh no, they’re redoing the Battle of Hoth! TESB remake confirmed!”, from the sound of things, the actual battle itself play out differently. Aside from the alien-looking mix-and-match environment (which sounds like it’s going to be visually stunning), the Resistance aren’t going to be using tow cables to bring the walkers down this time. Instead, they’ll be using an old ship design that packs some significantly more effective firepower: an updated version of the B-wing, one of which will crash spectacularly into the planet’s surface with the above cockpit as a kind of practical effect. In addition, the gems themselves are explosive (possibly making them Kyber Crystals), and at some of the AT-4Xs goes down when they’re bombarded with a shipment. All in all, I honestly wouldn’t be too surprised if the Battle of Crait has more in common with the ground-based portion of the Battle of Scarif.

 

While MSW curiously do not list what characters are involved in this fight, I would personally like to speculate that this is Poe Dameron’s time to shine. We do know that Poe’s involved with a major attack run with the sizzle reel footage described, and since Oscar Isaac’s been given a larger role in The Last Jedi than he did in The Force Awakens, it can be presumed that he’ll be the focus of at least one major battle sequence. I’d personally love it if Poe basically pulled what he did on Takodana on a much larger scale, helping the Resistance snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. But we won’t know for a while, unless we’re fortunate enough to find out at Celebration. Until then, stay tuned to Star Wars News Net for 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.

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.

40 thoughts on “Rumor: Details on a Battle on a Newly Named Planet.

    • April 9, 2017 at 4:10 am
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      A rumor says you might see them meet up in the last act. Or something to that effect.

      – Pomojema

    • April 11, 2017 at 12:23 am
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      We’ll probably get some repeat love-triangle tension/humour.

      See whether Finn chooses Rey or Poe … maybe? 😉

      • April 11, 2017 at 1:49 am
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        I’d die to see that onscreen.

  • April 9, 2017 at 10:27 am
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    Yeah, Remaking the R1 ground battle doesn’t sound exactly thrilling to me either but even if all this is bullshit we know the film likely centers around another darksider looking for the last of the Jedi who is in training with another of the old Jedi. I really hope the trailer proves me wrong that we are not getting another rehash.

    • April 9, 2017 at 10:28 am
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      Not even mad at Johnson if it’s true but more so

    • April 9, 2017 at 10:28 am
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      Not even mad at Johnson if true but more so Abrams and Disney who have literally made billions for decades ripping off other people’s ideas and not crediting them.

      • April 9, 2017 at 9:44 pm
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        But he wrote the script. You’re not “mad at Johnson” because two years ago you were on these very same boards preaching about how Johnson was a GOD compared to Abrams. How he was going to make such a superior movie to VII and how Abrams was a hack.

        So now you get news that some of the scenes sound like a rehash and it’s Abrams fault in Johnson’s film? LOL? Hypocrite much, bro?

        So glad you came back Snarkums. The forums were boring without you to embarrass over and over again.

    • April 9, 2017 at 11:37 am
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      I think a lot of the love for TPM is due to it not being made by George Lucas, but I wonder if they pull the same remake trick twice (Especially if they try to remake the beloved Empire Strikes Back) will they feel the full force of a planet destroying, fully operational fanboy hate attack.

      • April 9, 2017 at 10:22 pm
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        Walkers have been in the prequels and the OT, it makes sense that they return. I know the article talks about the terrain perhaps being snow because it’s white, but if they wanted it to be snow, they would have filmed somewhere that had snow.

        People are having fits over nothing. The movie will most likely depart from mirroring the other films; LFL listened to the criticisms that were cast the last time around. Everyone is already quick to forget that VIII went through a pretty hefty rewrite towards the beginning of filming directly after VII was released.

        The sky was falling during the Rogue One reshoots too, yet everyone liked that movie as well. Go figures.

        • April 10, 2017 at 10:14 pm
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          Not everyone. Go figures.

          • April 11, 2017 at 3:32 am
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            There was less hate on this forum for Rogue One, substantially so, than there was for VII. That’s my barometer among the hardcore of Star Wars fandom.

            You hate everything new, I get that, and have deigned you an outlier.

            Which means to me, your opinion means squat. But thanks for repeating it endlessly all the same.

  • April 9, 2017 at 1:41 pm
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    Yeah, I’ll start screaming. So – we had an abandoned by parents girl living on desert planet who becomes (nearly) a Jedi after finding an old Jedi master and there’s a Death Star 3 blown at the end. NOT an ANH rehash of course. Now it seems we’ll have battle involving giant walkers on a planet with white surface. And they will be defeated by flying ships, maybe not by a cable, but whatever. Why “Crait”? Let’s just call it “Hoath” and make sure there’s some giant white furry monster with at least one arm so it can be cut off by Rey. I bet in this film we’ll get the mystery of Rey’s parents solved. And the end will be a cliffhanger only to be finally resolved in ep IX when Snoke will be killed by Kylo, preferably on some unfinished Death Star 4 after a team led by Finn disable the force field and shortly before Poe destroy it by a torpedo to the core. Let’s face it – they can rehash the OT, a lot of fans will be angry but they will still deny it and swim in $$$.

    • April 9, 2017 at 2:03 pm
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      Everything is a rehash. A New Hope is a rehash of a ton of other movies and influences. Don’t like it? Then stay home. One less complainer to listen to in the theater.

      • April 9, 2017 at 2:27 pm
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        But it still was quite original. TFA on the other hand was so heavily “inspired” by ANH that even non fans were noticing it without any problems (like my brothers and cousins). It was “inspired” to the point of a joke. Too much “inspiration” in TLJ won’t be a joke, it’ll be an insult. Of course we can stay fanboys and accept totally everything they throw at us with love (oh, companies love having such drones, Steve Jobs approves), but I prefer to have my own healthy opinion. Of course “if” it’ll be a TSB rehash – but after TFA and recent spoilers I’m getting a bit afraid about that.

        • April 9, 2017 at 2:38 pm
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          Then, on the other hand, you have reports of a glitzy casino planet with a police department and chief who throws our main characters in jail – and you have people complaining that that doesn’t really seem like Star Wars. Shows that they can’t win either way…

          • April 9, 2017 at 2:45 pm
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            I’m not complaining about casino, police or jail. I just don’t want to get another “heavily inspired” movie showing us almost the same story we already saw.

          • April 9, 2017 at 4:47 pm
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            It’s a movie about wars in space. After 8 movies, your’re going to going to get some battles that have a similar feel to what we saw previously. It’s like watching a new movie about World War II and the Invasion of Europe and being upset about it looking too much like Saving Private Ryan.

        • April 9, 2017 at 6:49 pm
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          @Mirek Bal: “but it still was quite original”. No, buddy, ANH being original/unoriginal is merely a question of age and/or “how much ‘old stuff’ you do know”. Because, trust me, I could write a list of all the things ANH lift from other movies (often times to the point of ripping them off shot-by-shot) and a bunch of comic books – to the point where the opening crawl closes with a four dots ellipsis (….) instead of the regular three, because the opening crawl in the old Flash Gordon serials used the four dots.
          And, I promise you, even with just a bit of knowledge of what was popular 10 to 30-35 years before ANH, you can do the same thing with every character, every plot point, every shot, every piece of design.

          Don’t get me wrong: it’s a great movie! It worked so well because of how well executed it was, of how universal the theme were (and, in 1977, a sci-fi/fantasy movie of that [productive] scale was unprecedented). But it never was “original” – it wasn’t even MEANT to be original, ffs 🙂

          • April 11, 2017 at 12:17 am
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            To be fair to Mirek, there is a distinction between a film reusing genre tropes and cinemotography that have appeared before, and a film that mines its franchise tropes to the point of deja vu. I have argued for years that both Return of the Jedi and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade both suffer from the same ailment that afflicts TFA. I enjoy all three films, but let’s call a spade a spade.

          • April 11, 2017 at 9:04 pm
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            I think it is largely a metter of perspective. If you consider what you *see*, then yes, RotJ, IJ:TLC, TFA, basically the PT – not mention almost every comic book movie ever since the late ’80s/early ’90s – are all very similar to their “original model”.

            However, considering what is actually going on, what the plot points are about (rather than how they can be described), where the characters are, their arcs, the conflicts they go throuth and where they end up being – lookin’ at it this way, I feel that they all stand as their own movie (those in the SW and the IJ franchises, anyway).

      • April 9, 2017 at 3:05 pm
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        Well he’s entitled to his opinion, who are you to tell him to stay at home?

        • April 9, 2017 at 4:43 pm
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          Please. I’m not telling him to do anything. I’m suggesting that if he can’t even wait to see the film a single time before complaining about it, maybe it’s better if he just skips it.

          • April 9, 2017 at 7:13 pm
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            Your not telling him to do anything…..

            “Don’t like it? Then stay home”

            Do you even know what your posting? You seem very aggressive against other people who’s opinions don’t match yours, why is that?

          • April 10, 2017 at 2:10 am
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            Give me a break. It was a suggestion. Not a demand. Do you even know the difference?

          • April 10, 2017 at 10:28 am
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            Yes I do, and its both a demand just as much as a suggestion.

            Still would like to know why your so angry. Bullied at school or something and need to act big on the internet?

          • April 10, 2017 at 3:28 pm
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            Pick your battles, Steven. This ain’t worth it.

          • April 10, 2017 at 10:12 pm
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            I fear you’re correct. The guy seems to have an attitude problem.

          • April 10, 2017 at 5:49 pm
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            There is a clear difference between suggesting somebody do something and demanding it. You obviously can’t tell that difference. Not angry at all. I don’t know how you could interpret what I wrote as being anger-filled, unless you were an overly-sensitive type.

          • April 10, 2017 at 10:11 pm
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            There is indeed, but you said ‘Then stay at home’ which is can be viewed as both unless you make yourself clear. Considering you ended it with ‘one less complainer to listen to in the theatre’ most would consider it a more a demanding post.

            Not really over-sensitive but its interesting to see how others react when their buttons are pushed back a certain way. You don’t seem to like attitude returned in the manner you like to give it for example, and its interesting you attempt to inflame a reaction in such a way.

            Maybe you have personal issues that you need to address.

          • April 11, 2017 at 4:02 am
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            My, god, you need to lighten up. If anything was “inflamed,” it was you taking a flippant comment seriously on a posting board and badly misinterpreting it.

          • April 11, 2017 at 11:41 am
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            Ah so maybe you like to be ‘flippant’ towards people as a show of lack of respect? That’s very mature of you.

            The thing is you say it was flippant, but you tend to be angry, just read your reply.

            “Don’t like it? Then stay home. One less complainer to listen to in the theater.”

            Yet I’m the one thats badly misinterpreted that as not being inflammatory. I suggest you take a long hard look in a mirror and ask yourself why your so angry with the world..

          • April 13, 2017 at 4:29 am
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            As, yes, nothing but genteel, proper gentlemen here! Do pardon my offense, won’t you, good chum? I suggest you stop overreacting and overanalyzing what people on internet posting boards write and playing keyboard psychologist, because, to be honest, you really kinda suck at it. You don’t need to take everything you read so damn seriously.

          • April 13, 2017 at 10:38 am
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            At this point I’m treating you as you treat others, and its fun to be honest.

            You certainly have issues and no, I’m no psychologist, but don’t need to be as I can look right through you just as others have on these boards. You can be as vile as you like, not trying to educate you, but don’t expect everyone to role over just because you try sadly to be some kind of Internet bully. Making up for some lacking qualities in the real world, who knows.

  • April 9, 2017 at 3:10 pm
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    I believe that leaked picture had us all thinking it was a B-Wing. Would be interesting to see them in action at some point, as Rebels shows them as at the development stage. 30 years on they should be a lot more common.

    I’m not concerned on worrying if its a rehash, preferring a wait and see approach, but that said it could go bad for the saga if a lot of fans see it that way upon release.

    • April 9, 2017 at 10:23 pm
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      Thank you Steven, for not being a reactionary cry baby.

      Bitch when it happens, not before.

      • April 9, 2017 at 10:59 pm
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        Well the reported Snowtroopers might not even be that. Salt flats are quite harsh conditions, so maybe another specialised trooper that’s similar to the Snowtroopers.

        R1 was the fan-service film I was waiting for and its been enriched from reading Catalyst, so I’m confident that VIII will have learnt from what I saw as a few errors in VII.

        Time will tell.

  • April 9, 2017 at 6:07 pm
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    Crait news!

  • April 10, 2017 at 12:15 am
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    Reminds me a bit of the “Krayt” Dragon. Makes me think the planet could be dangerous.

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