New Star Wars Book Reveals Snoke’s Force Powers, Canto Bight, & More!

A series of scans from the updated edition of Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need To Know reveal some interesting information about some of the new content that will be seen in The Last Jedi, such as what kind of Force abilities Snoke can use. Click ahead to see what’s inside…

 

Eight pages in the book are dedicated to The Last Jedi (scans provided by chem072117 at r/StarWarsLeaks). The first pair of pages are explicitly just a cover image, which features the cast photo above in different lighting:

 

 

 

Nothing really new on this front, but that’s the exception and not the rule here. The second pair of pages are focused on Ahch-To, Rey, and Luke Skywalker:

 

 

 

So the new details we can gather from this particular set of pages are as follows:

 

  • Rey isn’t on Ahch-To to train with Luke, she’s trying to recruit him for the Resistance effort.
  • Luke has spent at least two years on Ahch-To; if we expand upon this bit with what we know about the canon, then this means that the time between Ben Solo’s betrayal and Luke Skywalker’s decision to set up shop on Ahch-To is as great as four years (since Bloodline mentions that Luke and Ben are still teacher and student six years before The Force Awakens), and as little as a few months. There seems to be a deliberate amount of vagueness here so that storytellers have a good amount of creative freedom with these stories.
  • Chewbacca fills in the emptiness in his life that Han’s death created with a bunch of puffin-penguin-guinea-pig things.

 

On to the third pair of pages, which don’t focus on any specific characters, they just highlight what life on Cantonica and specifically Canto Bight is like:

 

 

 

Not too much worth pointing out here other than that this gives us some technical details on what the things in these places are called.

 

Finally, the fourth pair of pages focus on all things related to the Dark Side… Oh, and Finn and Rose are there, too:

 

 

 

And these are the most illuminating of the pages. To wit:

 

  • Kylo Ren wants revenge for his humiliating defeat at Rey’s hands.
  • We have explicit confirmation that Snoke can use the Force, with abilities in telekinetically throwing and choking people and telepathy emphasized. That last one is important for those who have read the novel, as it’s hinted that Snoke tries to tempt Rey into killing Kylo Ren after besting him in single combat.
  • The Praetorian Guards are humans, not droids or aliens, and are armed with all sorts of unique weapons.
  • The Praetorian Guards are eight in number, ruling out the possibility that they’re the other six Knights of Ren in fancier armor.
  • The Resistance labels bombs with messages to the First Order.
  • “Crankypants” is apparently a word used to describe Rose Tico, because of course it is.

 

There’s nothing hugely spoiler-filled here, but it’s interesting to see how this addresses a handful of the questions that we’ve had about the plot for a while. We’re coming up close on that trailer, so hopefully we’ll get more and more answers as the time comes.

 

 

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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.

68 thoughts on “New Star Wars Book Reveals Snoke’s Force Powers, Canto Bight, & More!

  • October 3, 2017 at 8:34 am
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    They seem to have forgotten to add that Snoke can use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life and even keep the ones he cares about from dying.

  • October 3, 2017 at 9:16 am
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    I wonder if Snoke can force choke a bantha. I hope not. (Gulp!)

  • October 3, 2017 at 11:15 am
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    So Rey is not on Ahch-To to train? She is actually there to recruit Luke? Haha, so basically what we were all joking about turned out to be actually true! Its not Rey, the girl, who needs to be lectured, its the old white man, Luke. Great symbolism for our modern PC world, I see what they did there.

    Oh and Kylo wants revenge at Rey for his “humuliating defeat”? LOL, forget about it Kylo! Rey will kick your ass in this film aswell, and she will do it WITHOUT training. She will have a new “Forceback” test at Ahch-To that will grant her even more insight and strong, wise powers. All for free! Then she can train Luke. Hahaha!

    This trilogy is so shitty, all because of Rey.

      • October 3, 2017 at 1:04 pm
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        Girls and boys, this is intelligence at its finest – when you are fed up with someone’s opinions, just call them “idiot”! It will solve everything, and make you look like a smart and nice person.

    • October 3, 2017 at 1:23 pm
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      Are the girls in your school mean to you buddy?
      Dont let that turn you into a sexist douche man.

      • October 3, 2017 at 4:35 pm
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        Too late.

        • October 3, 2017 at 6:24 pm
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          Keep pat each others shoulders, dudes! Lol!

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:42 pm
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        Nothing in my post was sexist, but it was definitely triggering. If you see sexism everywhere, you got issues, buddy.

        Don’t let that turn you into a bullying douche, which you have been now. 😉

    • October 3, 2017 at 1:25 pm
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      I see it more as in EP IV, where Luke is trying to convince Han to stay with the Rebellion

    • October 3, 2017 at 1:41 pm
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      Frustration leads to anger anger leads to hate hate leads to great amouts of SALT.

    • October 3, 2017 at 2:08 pm
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      I don’t see the point you’re making. She went there to get Luke and then after meeting him she’ll reportedly stay to “explore matters of the force” (ie. train), the pages above state specifically that. So she’s simply going with one intention and staying when circumstances develop.
      We’ve all done that multiple times in our own lives, it’s like going out for “just one drink” after work with a friend and then, say, staying out all night because you ended up going to a house party – that doesn’t change the intention for why you went out in the first place.

      Secondly, this is clearly a children’s book and yet you’re criticising the fact that the descriptions are simplified? Unless of course descriptions like Snoke’s throne makes him “look very scary” are at your reading level, in which case I do apologise.

    • October 3, 2017 at 2:52 pm
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      You are a piece of work.

      Of course Rey doesn’t go there to train…AT FIRST. Have you ever seen ANY movie before?

    • October 3, 2017 at 2:53 pm
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      Much fear (of women) I sense in you.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:23 pm
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        Lol, I’m not. You on the other hand, do you want to be reported? Maybe you are just afraid of having a real discussion. If personal attacks are the only way for you to respond?

    • October 3, 2017 at 4:38 pm
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      Right. They should’ve stuck with the much more plausible scenario of an 8-year-old boy as the amazing superhero without any force training or engineering education. We all know that a space fantasy series about walking ape men, sassy robots and space wizards with magical powers needs to be grounded in complete reality.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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        How about the farmboy from a backwater planet that hops into a military fighter and utilizes his magic powers to destroy an enormous weapon?

        Some people have really, really selective memories.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:22 pm
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        The comparisons are not valid, you should see TPM and ANH again. Anakin was not an “amazing superhero” in TPM, he was just a boy. The movie established that he had never even finished a pod-race before, and crashed every capsule. So, his win wasn’t his first ever race. Luke in ANH didn’t beat Darth Vader, he didn’t even use the lightsaber to fight anyone. And not even by AOTC was Anakin able to defeat Count Dooku, that had to wait until ROTS. So, they both needed several movies to master their abilities.

        • October 3, 2017 at 10:20 pm
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          He flew a starfighter and blew up the Federation ship which deactivated the battledroids, effectively winning the battle of Naboo. He built and raced complex, jet-propelled vehicles against the best pod racers in the galaxy and won. He built complicated humanoid droids. All with no advanced engineering education and Jedi training. How many regular 8-year-old boys do you know that can do anything remotely like that? And yet somehow a 20-year-old woman getting the better of Kylo Ren in a fight for a few seconds is over the top. OK.

    • October 3, 2017 at 5:10 pm
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      “She hopes that Luke, the Last Jedi Master in the galaxy, can explain how to develop and use her new abilities.”

      Sounds to me like she went there for training.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:38 pm
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        She wants answers, that’s all. They’ve already teased to us before that Luke won’t be giving her a very warm welcome, and that he “might be hesitant to teach anything at all”. We know that she will experience another one of her panting Forcebacks, so that’s probably where her new answers and wisdom will come from.

    • October 3, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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      Good lord. I would be incredibly embarrassed to be you right now.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:08 pm
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        He is as well. This is just the only way he knows (and has) to show it.

        • October 3, 2017 at 6:19 pm
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          I’m not, but I’m not surprised to see that the only way you guys can discuss is by making personal attacks. Grow up.

          • October 3, 2017 at 6:22 pm
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            Or, stay with me here, you just made a fool of yourself, deriving a whole comment from something you didn’t even bother to read (or were unable to fully understand… I’m honestly not sure what’s more embarassing) AND you did so in the worst possible way aka “sounding like a sexist prick”.
            I’m really saying this to your benefit, buddy: you may want to rethink your approach or – at the very least – keep in mind that no one is forcing you to watch these movies.

          • October 3, 2017 at 6:35 pm
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            Nothing in my post is sexist, I’m telling it as it is with a bit of humor involved. I was making a point regarding the speculation many of the Rey-critics did after TFA, also with humor involved, which was: “Lol, maybe Rey should train Luke instead”. While Rey obviously won’t train Luke, that old joke was mainly focused on the fact that Rey have already beaten “Vader” AKA Kylo in this case, so what should Rey train for? You could argue that Rey needs to train in order to realise her full powers, but this happend in TFA already when she was discovering and using all her powers to the fullest. Now we have official confirmation that Rey goes to Ahch-To to recruit Luke, and that Luke will be hesitant to train anyone. We are definitely going to get some sort of “trials” for Rey as she clearly has another one of her panting Forcebacks in TLJ. So, the wisdom will come from the Forceback and not from Luke.

            If you see sexism everywhere, you got issues, buddy.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:18 pm
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        Definitely not. I’m making justified points and you are just being butthurt about it since it will come true. I predicted years ago that Rey wouldn’t need any training from Luke, and that her main purpose would be to convince him to come back and fight for the New Republic again. It will all come true, unfortunately the Rey-fans are still going to defend her to death, and they will use personal attacks while doing so. 🙂 That’s the only way they can argue!

        • October 3, 2017 at 6:43 pm
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          dude, the whole point of TFA was to find luke and convince him to come back to help the resistance. the whole dang point. what bloody difference does it make that it was rey that went to fetch him? what difference does it make that she only trains with him after this request? you are literally angry that the main character is the one advancing the plot. i just… i’m dumbfounded at this line of thinking.

          • October 3, 2017 at 6:46 pm
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            My first post is using obvious sarcasm as a way to humorously explain where this story is leading. Do you guys really believe that Kylo will get revenge for his, as they so kindly put it, “humiliating defeat”?

          • October 3, 2017 at 6:50 pm
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            In this movie? probably.

          • October 3, 2017 at 6:50 pm
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            Why should I be angry that main character is advancing the plot? Did I ever say anything about this? If anything, its dumb to put words in others mouths. My main issue is that Rey gets everything for free without any lecturing. And everyone who makes comparisons to TPM or ANH have obviously never seen those movies.

          • October 3, 2017 at 6:50 pm
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            I think you haven’t, but ok.

          • October 3, 2017 at 7:01 pm
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            i think it is you my friend who has obviously not watched the TLJ teaser because luke seems to be putting rey through her paces. and remember, both luke and anakin had the prototypical hero’s journey in their first film where they saved the day against impossible odds just like rey. it is in the second film(act) where the hero is challenged and stressed and we see just what they are made of.

        • October 3, 2017 at 6:49 pm
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          So then you are wrong. Cool!

    • October 3, 2017 at 6:22 pm
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      Thread backfire

    • October 4, 2017 at 2:32 am
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      What are you 10 years old? It may be “shitty” to you, but not to me and millions of people across the world who loved TFA. So please don’t speak for me, speak for yourself. Also how can you say a trilogy is “shitty” when only the first film has come out (which was both a critical and financial success btw). You can’t judge a trilogy by one film.

  • October 3, 2017 at 2:53 pm
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    …The Professor aaaand Mary Ann!!!…

  • October 3, 2017 at 3:51 pm
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    yeah, yeah…just give us the new trailer!!!!

    • October 3, 2017 at 8:42 pm
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      6 days!

  • October 3, 2017 at 4:30 pm
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    Ho-hum.

  • October 3, 2017 at 4:31 pm
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    Still not as hyped for this as I should be.

    • October 3, 2017 at 5:50 pm
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      “should”

  • October 3, 2017 at 6:19 pm
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    Thankfully its confirmed Snoke is a force-user, though I couldn’t see it being any other way if Kylo was returning to him to complete his training.

    Fingers crossed TLJ will do Luke justice and the film will be fantastic.

  • October 3, 2017 at 6:24 pm
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    Ah yes, merchandise spoilers. I’m sure there existed people who wanted the fact that Snoke is a force user to be a surprise once they watch TLJ.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:45 pm
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        Nevermind then, it’s not a spoiler.

      • October 3, 2017 at 6:49 pm
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        (and the movie)

    • October 3, 2017 at 6:49 pm
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      It was in the movie…”There has been an awakening…have you felt it?”

      It’s pretty obvious he is a Force user.

  • October 3, 2017 at 7:00 pm
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    Most fascinating. For starters, Rey searching to recruit Luke is a nice touch. She isn’t there for training intially and actually makes a lot of sense. Given how TFA’s whole goal was to locate Luke, obviously they want the hero who defeated Emperor Palpatine and Vader to come back and aid in the war effort. Especially, given that Han Solo is dead.

    As for his response, obviously they are keeping that covered. And while I have my own thoughts on what I’d like to see, I will be willing to go into this movie with an open mind with what Rian is planning to do with Luke Skywalker.

    The vagueness of what transpired with Luke on Ach-too and when related to Bloodline is interesting. It was very evident that TFA was trying to keep those elements hush hush and seems like there will be some kind of payoff here. At least, I hope. So yeah, look forward to it.

    Kylo Ren wanting revenge brings a smile to my face. On one hand, yeah; anyone could have seen this coming. But given the way he lost, I too would be pissed and want retribution. So yeah, one point for relating to my feelings. Cheekiness aside, I am curious about Snoke.

    The way that they described his Force powers very much is akin to a dark sider with Palpatine. Which if that is the case, I hope that he doesn’t use a Lightsaber. While I wouldn’t be totally against it, I always loved seeing powerful Force sensitives not needing one. Heck, Palpatine even mocked this aspect. So yeah; some great news and I look forward to seeing the trailer for the TLJ.

    • October 3, 2017 at 7:05 pm
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      Also, on a side note; I found it amusing how this article revealed that the Praetorian Guards are human. Correct me if I am wrong, but I know that there were a lot of people back when ANH and ESB came out that were still convinced that Vader was a robot. Even with that brief glimpse of his helmet off in ESB.

      So yeah, kind of a blast from the past. Also, unique weapons I am hoping it is like Cortosis: a lightsaber resistant material. Much like the Mandalorian armor. Because that would be an excellent excuse for a fight sequence.

      Also, numbering eight, huh? I hope that the Knights of Ren aren’t just tossed aside. But who knows? The director, obviously, but keeping an open mind.

      • October 4, 2017 at 1:09 am
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        “lightsabre resistant material” ? Yup, look to the BTS video for an answer to that one ! ;o)

        • October 4, 2017 at 1:11 am
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          Will keep that in mind. Thank you.

    • October 3, 2017 at 7:28 pm
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      Why didn’t Leia just go to Ach To and return his lightsaber if everyone wanted him to help the Resistance?

      • October 3, 2017 at 7:40 pm
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        my assumption was that with the new republic gov destroyed, leia needed to step into that void immediately to fight the FO.

      • October 4, 2017 at 1:00 am
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        Indeed. It was something I found really confusing and heck, given TFA’s poor pacing I doubt that ever crossed Abrams or any of the staff’s mind. Really, I could say that Leia wanted to remain with the Resistance as a pillar of leadership, but that is just an assumption on my part. I hope that this actually gets addressed within the movie at some point.

        Who knows? Maybe, Leia is nervous about meeting Luke given the situation with Han’s death and Ben. Can you imagine that conversation about how her son(and his nephew) basically committed the same sins as their grandfather?

      • October 4, 2017 at 4:00 am
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        Don’t forget Chewbacca and R2 are there as familiar faces. Had Han not died, I’m sure he would have made the trip while Leia oversaw the evacuation. Breaking the fourth wall for a second, since Chewie and R2 would have to be subtitled (something they’ve never done in the films), from a story standpoint it really had to be Rey as the audience surrogate. Perhaps Poe, but I’m sure he has a lot of important woo-hooing to do in his X-wing.

  • October 3, 2017 at 8:50 pm
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    Didn’t we know that Snoke was a force user already? Wasn’t that established in TFA and the novel?

    • October 3, 2017 at 8:53 pm
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      I would say strongly implied.. I never read the novel though so could be there

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