Star warfare : The Last Jedi is less than two months away , and while it may seem like we know almost nothing about it , that ’s not exactly rightful . There ’s not a ton of official data about the film , but over the past yr , between the trailers ( admit the fresh one ) , set written report , and rumor , io9 has been able to put together together a lot about Episode VIII — and we ’ve collected it all here for you .
The Main Characters
Rey ’s journeying in The Last Jedi begin where The Force Awakens leave off , with Luke Skywalker . She train with him but their relationship is n’t exactly smooth . All the trailers seem to be making a self-aggrandizing deal out of how much Force power Rey has , with a definite implication in the last trailer that Supreme Leader Snoke is looking to change by reversal Rey to his side for that reason .
In addition to working with Luke , Rey will ask for assistance from someone else to keep the grooming going andlearn past tense . Most importantly , we mistrust this entropy may eventually cease the guess about who her parents are .
Yes , Luke is finally in this motion-picture show . However , this is not the sympathetic mentor we might have expect . He ’s scared of Rey ’s monolithic power because of what he witness with Ben Solo . We have also heard tenacious rumour of Kylo Ren using a Force artifact to lure Luke out of concealment , as well as a face-off between him and the Knights of Ren . There ’s also speculation that a necklace he wears — so far unseen — plays some enceinte role .
The dearly depart Carrie Fisherreturns for one final appearanceas the leader of the Resistance , now finding itself one of the few remaining bulwarks against the First Order in the wake of the New Republic ’s decimation in The Force Awakens .
Much has been enjoin about how The Last Jedi will see herdevelop a closer wise man relationshipwith Poe Dameron , and we ’re still incertain as to whether or not she ’ll reunite with either her brother or her wayward son ( reports have saidat least one of those reunion was in the posting for picture , andrecent rumors have suggestedit will be with Kylo ) . But we do know General Organa will be at the forefront of two major engagement in the pic : the blank skirmish above D’Qar as the Resistance flees their not - so - conceal - anymore base , where she ’ll be aboard the bridge deck of the Resistance Flagship ; and the satellite Crait , as we ’ve visualise shots of Leia standing by the shutting doors of a former Rebel understructure — revealed in the Leia , Princess of Alderaannovel as being founded by her father when she was a teenager — in the most late trailer .
One fabulously early rumorabout The Last Jedi said Leia will be badly injured during a First Order attack ( perhaps the battle above D’Qar ) and will spend a period of the moving picture recovering , leaving the Resistance aimless and on the verge of splitting itself into two junto trying to decide what to do next .
Poe is still fighting with the Resistance and , like we state , has a magnanimous relationship with Leia in the movie . Both prevue have shown him in the heat of struggle with the First Order , both on Resistance ship and outside them . At some detail in the celluloid , he upgrade his X - Wing with a big - ass skyrocket .
Kylo Ren
Kylo Ren ’s role in The Last Jedi is still very orphic . We fuck he ’s begin a cool covering for his scar . He ’s still dealing withthe reverberation of wipe out his Fatherhood . He has a Modern ship , wants the destroy the past , and leads some soldiers . He ’s also believably still disturbed at Rey and still searching for his uncle . Rumor has it he may loose the Knights of Ren in this motion picture , and the latest trailer suggests we may see his original betrayal of Uncle Luke .
After a few years of guess , The Last Jedi will corroborate that Snoke is not an abnormally bombastic hologram . He ’s kind of humanish , tire out gold robes , has a young , super cool set of guardscalled the elect Praetorian Guardaboard a ship called the Supremacy . At some point , he ’ll have a run - in with Rey — and he most belike want her to join him as an friend .
Once Finn heals from his Kylo - inflict injury , his heroics have n’t go unnoticed . He ’s finally a boastful deal in the Resistance . However , his newfound fame is n’t inevitably something he ’s comfortable with , so he gets thrown back into the mix . His missionary work ( or missions ) will involve him and new role Rose dressing up as First Order officers , heading to a casino city named Canto Bight , and eventually having a showdown with his sometime boss , Captain Phasma . It also seems he ’ll be fly one of the ski speeders in the Crait conflict .
Marvel ’s still - ongoing miniseries about The Force Awakens ’ response to Boba Fett explains how she commence out of that trash compactor and off the exploding Starkiller Base ( at afrankly comically quickened pace ) . Now she ’s back and ready for action again . This time she ’s got a weirdlylow - technical school spear to prove it , too .
We do know one affair ’s for sure , though : Phasma will go toe - to - toe with her former underling Finn at some percentage point in the movie , as we got to see the two duking it out in a burning First Order hangar bay in the most recent trailer . As far as what else is in depot for Phasma , we do n’t have it away , but if you want to memorize more about her Mad Max - ian origins and how she might one day ditch the First Order whole , you should break out Delilah S. Dawson ’s Phasma novel .
Chewie went with Rey to meet Luke and , while there , made some newfangled friend of his own : the Porgs , at least one of which will leave that major planet with him . More on them in a few .
Maz is in the flick but it ’s an even smaller role than last time . That ’s all we have intercourse for sure .
Armitage Hux has yet to prune up in anything we ’ve seen from The Last Jedi beyondVanity Fair ’s special coverand as anaction figure . We cognise he ’s in it , though , and can put on he ’s still get control of the First Order ’s military forces after the destruction of Starkiller Base . But otherwise , Hux ’s exact role in the film is unknown .
Theaforementioned Phasma noveldid unwrap he has a very close-fitting — but weird — relationship with Phasma that might end up being important in the film : He once helped her murder his father , Stormtrooper plan loss leader Brendol Hux , so Phasma could keep her origins and how she came to the First Order a secret .
The New Characters
Rose ( played by Kelly Marie Tran ) is a low - level Resistance worker who looks up to Finn becomes friends with him . by and by , they go off on a mission that will take them to the said casino city Canto Bight , as well as a First Order ship where they are mask as First Order police officer . The misstep to Canto Bight has to do with new role disk jockey , and we have sex that part of Rose ’s motivation is go to total from her sister , Paige Tico ( Veronica Ngo ) , a gunner with the Resistance .
Benicio del Toro is play The Last Jedi’smost mysterious novel character(probably ) . He ’s a slicer , the Star Wars term for a hacker , and is purportedly the “ best in the galaxy . ” He ’s not an idealist , as he ’s explicitly out for his own increase in this warfare . John Boyegadescribed DJas having “ distinct opinions . The Resistance bombs the First Order one daylight , the First Order bombs the Resistance on another . It ’s an ongoing war that will never end . For him , he ’s strain to do good off of that . ” Okay .
Laura Dern ’s wild - haired Resistance Leader is another orphic reference in The Last Jedi , but that mystery might be because she ’s also connected to one of the longest - ladder rumors about the film . think of we cite that General Leia was bruit to be offend in an plan of attack that would leave the Resistance rudderless ?
The same rumor posits that , in the wake of Leia ’s injury , Holdo will attempt to assume controller of the Resistance , and in doing so become an antagonist to Poe and his cabal of the organisation ( to speculate for a consequence , she probably urge for surrender in the wake of New Republic and Resistance personnel casualty ) . According to that rumour , Poe will at last arrange a mutiny among the Resistance to oust Holdo , holding her at blasterpoint — which could be why we see him apparently taking charge during the Crait scenes in the recent dawdler .
Beyond that rumor , we do n’t acknowledge much else about Holdo in The Last Jedi specifically , but thanks to her appearance in the Leia , Princess of Alderaan novel , we do roll in the hay she ’s known Leia since they were children . A native of the planet Gatalenta , Holdo is characterized as a free - gamey , forthcoming , and offbeat figure compared to Leia in the novel — which also have a conversationthat ’s interpreted as hint that Holdo could also be Star Wars ’ first on - screen LGBT character , but that ’s yet to be confirmed or denied .
Planets and Wildlife
We did see a bit of Ahch - To at the very remnant of The Force Awakens , but we now have some new details about it . We know that Rey , Chewie , and Luke are n’t alone on that planet — a bulky , religious decree of aliens called the Caretakers also dwell on Ahch - To . We’ve find out them before in Rogue Oneon Jedha , notably also the site of important Jedi token .
Luke ended up at Ahch - To after his hunting for the first Jedi Temple , and we ’ve picture a tree / bookshelf in the first house trailer that was dismount with a shot of light . On the covering of one of the books is the symbol of the Jedi Order , and the unspoiled guess we have is that we ’re looking at a copy of theJournal of the Whills , which is meet with poem about the Force and the Jedi ( we sawextracts ofit in the Guardians of the Whills book about Baze Malbus and Chirrut Îmwe ) . The comics also detail a foreign mission where Shara Bey ( Poe ’s mamma ) and Luke tracked down a Force tree , so we could be looking at a similar tree diagram on Ahch - To .
Ahch - To is also home to everyone ’s favorite new fauna , the porgs . Plenty of minor facts have leaked outabout the critters ( including a potential jest that chemical group of porgs is a “ execution , ” like a group of crows ) , but it ’s unclear if any of that material is really in the motion-picture show or not . God willing they ’re only in the movie enough to be cunning and wo n’t be toppling the First Order themselves , Ewok - style . There are rumour , though , that they could have some kind of genial connection to the Force and the Jedi . But that would be really , really weird .
In distinctive Star Wars fashion , Cantonica is a desert planet . It ’s home to Canto Bight , the gambling casino city that has everyone call about its potential similarity to Cloud City in Empire Strikes Back . Finn and Rose end up there as part of their mission , which involves need for the service of the slicer , DJ . It ’s suppose to be a city that caters to high tumbler pigeon and has the diverseness of Jabba ’s Palace and Maz ’s bar .
A planet with red dirt covered by Strategic Arms Limitation Talks flat — hence the dramatic outcome when ships scrape along its land — Crait was the habitation to a Rebel Alliance radical early on in the day of the fight against the Empire . When the Resistance fly the First Order , they stop up taking refuge in the old base on Crait . We ’ve picture shots of a huge struggle there ( along with some gorgeous crystalline fox bunk around ) , so it seems it does n’t stay secluded for too long .
Ships, Tech, and Troops
One matter we unquestionably love about The Last Jedi is there are a net ton of raw ships and vehicles on both sides . For the big Guy , we know join the Star Destroyers seen in The Force Awakens are two new capital ships , the Dreadnought and the Supremacy . The Dreadnought , see above , is a “ Mandatory-4 Class Warship ” jam with orbital cannons , meet assaulting the Resistance ’s former base on D’Qar in the most recent preview .
Meanwhile , the Supremacy , first revealedas part of the app used to persist Sphero ’s new RC robot toys during Force Friday II , is a banging Mega - Class Star Destroyer that dissemble as both the flagship and HQ of the First Order , as well as home to Supreme Leader Snoke ’s throne room , glimpse multiple fourth dimension in trailers . conjoin those in space alongside the TIE Fighters we get in The Force Awakens isKylo Ren ’s novel personal fighter , the TIE Silencer , which we ’ve seen attacking Resistance Forces in the most late trailer .
The Last Jedi will also bulk up the First Order ’s reason force . There ’s thegorilla - like AT - M6 , an upgrade to the AT - AT that has a thumping shank strapped to its back that we ’ve escort engage the Resistance on Crait . One vehicle we ’ve not seen in any footage so far but could also have in the moving-picture show is theFirst Order Scout Walker , a wanderer - y machine that first debut as part of Lego ’s line of Last Jedi hardening . Plus , there are two familiar - looking priming coat vehicle from the Empire ’s twenty-four hours : the AT - AT Walker , glimpse and on the face of it mostly unaltered in the latest laggard , and the AT - ST , which as you could see below ( on the far right wing ) has been given some armor upgrade .
There ’ll be a few new soldier , too . While the Stormtroopers from The Force Awakens remain unchanged , snap in the last trailer affirm that the First Order ’s Snowtroopers will ultimately make their cinematic entry after being rationalize out of the last motion-picture show . The Stormtroopers will also be joined by a new “ Executioner ” cavalryman , who we briefly saw in the behind - the - scenes whirl wielding a rather filthy looking wire claw - ax weapon . We do n’t know how they ’ll fit into pic , but Hasbro ’s natural process figure of the characterdescribes the Executionersas the dispensers of “ Final Justice ” against traitors to the First Order , which is bad tidings for Finn .
On top of that , there ’s also now the Elite Praetorian Guard , who havesubtly unlike armour and unique weapons(so they can sell lots of toys , presumably ) , andprevious rumorshave pegged them as bear electrified consequence around their blades so they can go up against lightsabers .
polish out the new tech on the First Order side is something a bit cuter than furious Stormtroopers or hateful - looking Alice Walker : BB-9E , our first sinister version of a BB - droid . It ’s unsung how much of a role the droid will play in the movie , but BB-9E — known on set as BB - H8 — has establish up alongside Captain Phasma in her current laughable miniseries set between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi .
What we ’ve realize of the Resistance , meanwhile , is much slight in comparison to their evil adversaries . In space we ’ve got the B / SF-17 big submarine sandwich , a beefed - up ship seen defend D’Qar in the trailers — and we know thatPaige Tico ( Veronica Ngo ) , Rose ’s baby , function a gunnery gun turret on one of them . Joining them and the T-70 X - Wings will be another intimate darling : the A - Wing , making a return after come out in Return of the Jedi . Unlike the X - Wings , however , it does n’t seem like there are any specially big change to the look of the ship in the intervening age between movies . Of course , we ’ll also still have the Millennium Falcon , now piloted by Chewbacca , Rey … and maybe a porg ?
There ’s also the Raddus , the Resistance ’s flagship , a Mon Calamari cruiser name after the Mon Calamari Admiral from Rogue One . We jazz it ’ll impart some polar reference — most notably General Leia and Poe Dameron , who ’ve been pick up on its bridge in several shots . The last prevue also imply that the ship might be intemperately damage in a fight against the First Order , necessitate an emptying of the ship witha fleet of smaller , pod - trend vehicles(which is perhaps what this “ Resistance Transport Pod ” Lego stage set is found on , as that ’s another toy fomite we ’ve yet to see in the motion picture ) .
On the primer , the Resistance also has one newfangled fomite : a Ski Speeder , seen moil up cherry dust on Crait ’s surface , that will go up against the First Order ’s Zimmer . We do n’t know much else about them , but pictures have show bothPoeandFinnin the skimmers at some point during the movie ’s big land battle .
The Story
That seems like a pile of data , ripe ? Yeah , it ’s a lot of strike pieces . We sleep with we start with Luke , Rey , and Chewie on Ahch - To , with a potential dispute with Kylo and the Knights of Ren on the elbow room . We also make love that the Resistance will be confronting the First Order on the satellite Crait , so the question is whether they end up on Crait after a battle or if they leave Crait after one . Whichever it is , Rose and Finn will manoeuvre to Canto Bight looking for assistant from DJ to get them into a First Order alkali . What Poe is up to , other than cherubic ten - Wing conflict , is anyone ’s guess ; same proceed for Snoke and Kylo Ren ’s latest program .
But , from the last trailer , a huge turning head in this picture will be when Rey and Snoke face each other , which is almost certainly going to be near the coming of the movie .
We also by all odds know that The Last Jedi opens December 15 .
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