Updated with Six Character Posters! Star Wars: The Last Jedi Panel at D23 and new POSTERS!
Although a lot of the buzz is being paid attention to The Last Jedi‘s behind the scenes reel itself, there was a short Lucasfilm panel, with it’s entire focus on The Last Jedi leading up to the debut of the reel. Here is our complete coverage of what occurred!
Alan Horn comes back out on the stage after the Disney proper panel. He informs the audience that Kathleen Kennedy is not there, as she is in London for Han Solo, and that the focus of today’s panel is The Last Jedi.
Horn did briefly give us the ever so generic quote regarding Han Solo that they are
“Looking forward to sharing details with you soon.”
Rian Johnson arrives on stage, he joked briefly about his first job doing “coming up next” commercials for the Disney Channel.
Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Gwendoline Christie join Johnson on stage, but there are some new faces to the franchise in attendance as well, including Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, and Benicio Del Toro!
Johnson begins to show photos from the set:
Rey flying the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca
Johnson proceeds to talk about filming in Ireland, with much of the cast not being present for that part of production.
“Finn is about to have a fight with a formidable opponent”, Boyega, as he glares up at Christie.
Rose dressed in an Imperial (First Order) outfit. Kelly Marie Tran was a very curious person on set, always wandering and wondering what was going on. Her goal being to experience as much as possible without getting into trouble.
Laura Dern’s Admiral Holdo with a blaster. They joke that she didn’t have an easy time making the famous the “pew pew” noises while firing it though.
Benicio Del Toro talks about how he saw the original Star Wars in theaters when he was 10 years old.
Speaking of A New Hope…
Mark Hamill comes out to join them and as always, nails the joke of the day:
“Thank you for not making me stand next to Gwendoline. You think I’m already short for a Stormtrooper?”
Johnson lauded Hamill, saying the old advice to never meet your heroes certainly did not apply here.
Hamill, without much detail, cryptically said there are a lot of unexpected elements in The Last Jedi.
Then came the debut of the new behind the scenes reel:
Also the official Star Wars site released new posters following the end of the D23 panel! Check them out:
We hope you enjoyed our breakdown of the panel. What do you think of the photos and new posters? Comment below and let us know!
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Did Chewbacca eat a Porg? In the part where he is sitting in the Falcon cockpit, it appears that there’s a feather or two hanging off of his mouth.
Maybe he eats the one that is on top of R2D2
Mark Hamill posted a Luke poster on twitter. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f8c6c32d4642692b478842430d6e3c97aed294f46c7d18b861c93d7c0570cfcd.jpg
Cool where is kylo ren
Cool where is kylo ren
Posters … where’s Luke?
And Kylo https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3003c30d5e0e86de08fd2e88700173845a73a060bda5c9bbaabaeec323850c96.jpg
Poe https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/35c336bad010dcfbda3d42708d8ee8f8963e95bfe37e88acb46a00cc1732a054.jpg
Only poster showing the whole face….
So any theories as to why the color red is prominent?
The white/red dichotomy of Crait.
So Luke and Rey are wielding the same saber?
Not crazy for the posters…. not seeing anything more then what could also work as generic packaging for a toy. Anyways Star Wars is Disney now I have to remember. Hate on the prequels if you must they are still made from one artists creative vision and not a census…
Yeah but the PRequels are horrid so bad comparison.
I find the prequels more interesting then the new ones but to each their own
i dont like much the prequels but its true in time most of us learned that george want to do something new and it turned up bad , but he tried , he wanted his vision realized
Rian said this movie is as much his as anything else he’s ever done
I actually like them. Usually Star Wars poster are quite overloaded with portraits of all kinds of characters and spaceships, etc.. I like these simple posters and the couloursheme. Red and white in the logo, red and white on the posters, red (and white) for snokes guards and throne room, red and white on Crait….
“ate on the prequels if you must they are still made from one artists creative vision and not a census…”
I could say the same about The Room and Johny Wiseau’s “creative vision”. in the end, a shit film is a shit film, and a good film is a good film.
im trying to keep my expectations low but somehow it makes me feel good, this look fresh(for disney playsafe SW standard ) i know there are already a lot of similarities with ESB i hope johnson make good use of them, also this reel confirms a lot of leaks that are really old
I wish the Posters showed their entire faces. Kind of BLAH posters…..
Is it just me, or why is Kylo Ren’s new D23 TLJ red poster show his whole face? None of the other posters show their whole faces…??
His face is turned away from the camera, but they still want to show his cool scar.
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No Kenobi announcement then,shame,somebody on Twitter said they thought they say Ewan McGregor at D23.Got my hopes up for a second.
Sounds to me they are still trying to secure a director for the next spin-off movie. The Lord and Miller situation has most likely made Lucasfilm more cautious.
Guess Han doesn’t get resurrected then!! Damn!!
Its an end credit sequence. Shhhhh…… Don’t tell anyone.
Those character posters are actually really great!
Luke and Rey are holding the same lightsaber. Luke’s green lightsaber looked different.
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