Rumor: Maz Kanata’s Role In Star Wars: The Last Jedi Revealed.

It hasn’t exactly been a secret that Maz Kanata doesn’t have a big part to play in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, but where she’s going to show up has been a mystery. But rumor has it that we’ll be seeing her interact with a character she met in The Force Awakens

 

 

Maz was originally going to be seen joining up with the Resistance after her castle on Takodana was destroyed, but these scenes were cut since she didn’t have anything to do after that point and J. J. Abrams wanted the movie to have a lean running time. However, it’s clear that this backstory is still being used in The Last Jedi going forward, even if we didn’t see it.

 

But as it turns out, information on Maz will officially be revealed on Force Friday as a part of the “Find the Force” event. According to Making Star Wars, it looks a little something like this:

 

Maz apparently introduces the Resistance to DJ. She helps the Resistance by pointing them toward a “mysterious new ally”. Maz has been forced to become more mobile and take more of a role in the criminal underworld.

 

It’s not too surprising to learn that Maz’s role in the plot will be tied to the criminal underworld considering that that’s where she was when we found her. The author of the piece is under the impression that Maz will have scenes with Finn and Rose, giving them information that will lead them to go to Cantonica to search for “DJ”. It’s definitely good to have a clear idea where she’ll be considering that The Force Awakens didn’t address what happened to her after she handed Finn the lightsaber.

 

 

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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.

48 thoughts on “Rumor: Maz Kanata’s Role In Star Wars: The Last Jedi Revealed.

  • August 27, 2017 at 5:10 am
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    Sounds a”Maz”ing. (Sorry)

  • August 27, 2017 at 6:10 am
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    It’s nice to hear some fresh rumors again. Honestly, it’s been too long.

    • August 27, 2017 at 4:15 pm
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      Hello There

  • August 27, 2017 at 6:17 am
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    I think Maz’s character was unnecessary… Leia could’ve filled her role with regards to Rey, or maybe Rey just finds the lightsaber on her own. maybe it’s even on Jakku??? and Maz’s castle could’ve just been a bar or something where Han takes everyone to hideout and figure out their next move, and maybe Han has some other old buddy, who isn’t also a Force user, or maybe there is no one at all… OR Han just takes everyone straight to the Resistance base, Rey is fooling around with the lightsaber, and that triggers her Force vision, then Leia notices and delivers Maz’s dialogue to Rey, then Rey runs away, the First Order attacks the Resistance base and captures Rey, and the Resistance fends off the First Order, making them resort to using their superweapon instead, and the rest of the movie carries on from there. the only problem I see with this version is the introduction to the Resistance isn’t as cool. am I a screenwriter now?

    either way, Maz was unnecessary, and now they are stuck having to find a job for her in The Last Jedi… she either needed to have a larger, more meaningful role in The Force Awakens, or not existed at all… and I wish they hadn’t made her over 1000 years old… that undermines Yoda’s mystique.

    • August 27, 2017 at 9:43 am
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      She wasn’t unnecessary. They needed a way to introduce Rey to the Force. You sort of need a Force user to do that. What more, Rey’s experiences at Maz’s bar didn’t just lead her to an understanding of the Force, it awakened its power within her.

      Yoda’s not the only creature in the Star Wars Universe that’s 900 years old.

      • August 27, 2017 at 10:14 am
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        I would say the Force was already somewhat awakened in Rey before that… like maybe it helped her pilot the Falcon so well? and Leia knows the Force… and her sharing that wisdom with Rey would’ve been a neat way to see how Leia has grown since the OT. I still feel her role wasn’t important enough to merit this entirely new character… at very least they should’ve just not cut her out of the movie after the FO attacked her castle.

        Yoda was the only movie character to live that long… and he became the super wise Grand Master of the Jedi with his 900 years. Maz had even more time, and she ran a bar? Han could’ve said “Maz has been running this place for 200 years” and it would’ve worked out fine.

        • August 27, 2017 at 3:57 pm
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          So she had a thousand years… how many talented people do you know that never lived up to their potential? A lot of people are happy doing things that others don’t consider amazing or even purposeful. The Jedi turned out to be not all that great, after all. Maybe she (wisely) wanted nothing to do with them.

        • August 28, 2017 at 2:13 am
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          It’s pretty obvious that they’ve decided Leia doesn’t know the Force enough to teach or educate her. And sure, the Force may be showing up prior to her meeting Maz but how is she to know what it is without direction?

          Yoda is NOT the only being in the Star Wars universe who has lived as long as 900 years.

          And obviously they said a thousand years for Maz to leave it open for her to help satisfy more plot points in the future that may require someone who had experienced or lived through an event to set the record straight on it.

      • August 28, 2017 at 2:11 am
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        If the admins are gonna ban me, they should fucking do it already. I’ll just make a new account and be back tomorrow.

        • August 28, 2017 at 12:05 pm
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          Why not change your attitude instead and try to make things better for everyone around here? We all have opinions and disagree with someone. Why not make it civil?

    • August 27, 2017 at 8:07 pm
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      Just bc you didn’t like her doesn’t mean she was unnecessary.

  • August 27, 2017 at 10:47 am
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    maz is the only thing I dislike from Force Awakens. That and the baby puzzle like map that’s combined at the end.

  • August 27, 2017 at 11:40 am
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    it’d be nice if she answered the “good question for another time”, but im afraid they’re just gonna ignore that because it’s too difficult to answer. I’d prefer they hadn’t brought back Luke’s lightsaber rather than lazily gloss over how it came to pass.

    • August 27, 2017 at 3:54 pm
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      They already addressed some of that in the books. Whatever they couldn’t fit into the movies got shunted off to other media. The lightsaber was Ben’s when he was training with Luke, which is why Han is so shocked that she had it.

      • August 27, 2017 at 8:06 pm
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        Which book says that? i’ve read them all and I’ve never heard this.

      • August 27, 2017 at 9:54 pm
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        It belonging to Ben at one point is a theory not a fact.

  • August 27, 2017 at 12:03 pm
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    “considering that The Force Awakens didn’t address what happened”
    …. hahahaha, TFA didn’t address *many* things at the end, and for the sake of, say, 5 minutes of brief cut-away shots (ie, not even dialogue-heavy scenes), certain characters’ fates could have been succinctly resolved. These were things that really ought to have been picked up on as early as the scripting stage ; or addressed in later ‘pick-up’ shooting.

    • August 27, 2017 at 2:00 pm
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      I did feel rushed. IMO it could of been an amazing return to the Star Wars universe, but instead it was simply good with flaws. The hype of the return to the franchise with Han, Luke and Leia is what made it the success it was.

    • August 27, 2017 at 3:33 pm
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      That’s like saying a story or character’s fate were not resolved in the first 1/3rd of a book. We don’t need answers to everything immediately. Let’s reserve judgement until finishing the story.

      • August 28, 2017 at 10:27 pm
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        … But I’m not even talking about TLJ events. How can we even *get* to TLJ if the 3 primary villains are all but dead ? One left in a trash compactor (& about to explode), one left on an exploding base, and one left for dead in a tundra forest crumbling apart and about to explode. Even GL had the foresight to wrap up his villain’s fate in ANH with a ‘cut-away shot’. For Maz, as soon as JJA, KK, etc, realised that that character’s final scenes were to be cut, they should have got some pickups in – or ILM cgi – to have Maz wave off the Resistance transports. Some simple shot like that would have sufficed to close her story. TBH, Maz’s fate left in the ruins on Takodana is less important than the villains’ fates ; or why two humans can now understand droid-speak ; or the connection btwn Lor San Tekka and Leia ; or the clumsiness that was the map McGuffin. I’m sorry to say that the more I review TFA the more I cringe, and I really enjoyed the Prequels for all their faults.

        • August 29, 2017 at 5:35 pm
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          We know Hux left, one of his subordinates tells us this. Snoke orders Hux to bring Kylo Ren to him, so we know they find a way off Starkiller before it implodes. I will grant you that Phasma’s fate is a pretty loose end. However, we still don’t need to see all of this actually happen. We are smart enough to come to these conclusions via inference.

          • August 29, 2017 at 7:21 pm
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            Of course, but a cut-away shot of an Imperial shuttle fleeing SB just before it explodes (or contrasted against the conflagration), ideally seeing the occupants too, would have succinctly tied up that ‘loose end’. Luke’s last scenes in ROTJ (pre- Ewok celebration) were last minute additions I believe [certainly the funeral pyre, possibly also the shuttle leaving the DS2].

  • August 27, 2017 at 12:10 pm
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    I don’t like this Maz character, her role in TFA was weird and uninteresting

  • August 27, 2017 at 1:03 pm
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    I imagine it’d make sense for her to be chilling with the Resistance, and providing information and assistance (through her various goons) to them during the time of TLJ. She probably needs to serve a bigger role in Episode IX, especially with regard to Rey.

  • August 27, 2017 at 4:00 pm
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    She is the Jar jar of the reboot!!

    • August 27, 2017 at 5:53 pm
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      Heh. Wrong.

    • August 27, 2017 at 7:08 pm
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      I never wanted to throw things at the screen whenever she was onscreen, nor did I ever cringe at whatever line she spoke, nor did she speak in incomprehensible gibberish, nor was she in the movie for 2 hours, so she’s nothing like Jar Jar if you ask me.

      • August 27, 2017 at 7:33 pm
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        Yet..

    • August 27, 2017 at 8:25 pm
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      I know prequelites jump at every chance to call something “the JarJar of the new trilogy” – understandably, after all the times they had JarJar rubbed on their faces – but this is REALLY far fetched

  • August 27, 2017 at 4:20 pm
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    Out of the new characters in TLJ, DJ is the one who i am most interested in and it would definitely make sense if he and Maz have some sort of connection in the smuggler/criminal underworld.

  • August 27, 2017 at 5:47 pm
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    Wow so many comments saying Maz was the weakest of the new characters.

  • August 27, 2017 at 6:28 pm
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    I quite liked Maz to be honest, though agree to some part that Leia could of fulfilled her role in the film. Would be nice if she had some connection to Yoda that is yet to be explained, since both had been around for such a long time.

    • August 27, 2017 at 8:28 pm
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      Nah. We don’t need everything/everyone to be connected with everything/everyone else. Actually, quite the opposite: this is supposed to be a GALAXY, not a “Condo Far, Far Away”

      • August 27, 2017 at 11:14 pm
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        True, but considering how rare force-users are suppose to be, it would seem odd if she’s never even heard of him considering her age and connection to the force.

  • August 27, 2017 at 8:51 pm
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    It seems like they’re setting up Maz to be the Link character similar to Agent Coulson and Nurse Claire from the MCU. Between what seems like an expanded role in Ep8, her narrator role in Force of Destiny and a reported appearance in Han Solo she’ll soon be everywhere.

    • August 28, 2017 at 2:24 am
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      Her role in Ep8 is actually minimal.

    • August 30, 2017 at 5:11 am
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      Most reports I’ve seen indicate that her role in Ep8 will be quite the opposite of “expanded”. Rather, it seems, her role will be truncated.

  • August 27, 2017 at 9:40 pm
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    I like Maz, would be nice to see her feature in a future standalone movie.

    • August 28, 2017 at 8:08 am
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      Feature as in the main character? Have you gone mad??

      • August 28, 2017 at 12:43 pm
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        Yup, the main character, stretched over a trilogy.

      • August 28, 2017 at 6:08 pm
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        he´s trolling, dude 🙂

  • August 28, 2017 at 2:27 am
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    Maz was a good character but was HURT substantially by the Editors removing her scene with LEIA — seeing Maz hand the Light Saber to Leia, with Leia’s reaction at her brother’s long-lost-artifact, would have been one of the most UNFORGETTABLE moments in TFA. Absolutely SHAMEFUL for the editors to take out such an emotionally-engaging scene “last minute” when they went into “hyper-chop-mode” less than a month before the film’s release.

    • August 28, 2017 at 9:27 am
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      Good point, that scene would of been gold.

      • August 28, 2017 at 10:53 pm
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        Really sad that such an impactful 2 minutes were removed — that would have benefited both viewers and the Maz character.

    • August 29, 2017 at 6:19 am
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      Seeing a random orange blob hand a lightsaber to Leia would have been about as forgettable as the rest of the movie (which to be fair, is not very). So you can stop capitalizing every other word, we hear you.

    • August 29, 2017 at 6:18 am
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      That looks like a Ninja Turtle.

  • August 28, 2017 at 9:01 am
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    Well this confirms the “DJ = Dark Jedi” theory for me. Or at least someone who is force sensitive and will use it in a different way to the Jedi would perhaps.

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