With the upcoming home release of The Last Jedi, we will be getting plenty of bonus material - including a lot of deleted scenes. Director Rian Johnson has said publicly that the reasoning for cutting these scenes was mainly due to pacing, not because of something wrong with the scenes themselves, and it sounds like [...]
The Star Wars Show yesterday had a segment of Rian Johnson talking about the novelization of The Last Jedi, which is written by Jason Fry and will be released on March 6, 2018. Johnson discussed how as a kid he would ride his bike to the grocery store to get the novel if he liked [...]
(*** major spoilers for The Last Jedi are ahead ***) The Force Awakens introduced us to many new heroes, but at the forefront was Daisy Ridley's Rey, a lonely scavenger from Jakku who almost by accident got caught up in the wider galactic conflict, and by the end of the film she was wielding the [...]
(*** Spoilers ahead ***) In an interview before The Last Jedi premiered, Mark Hamill said that the most important line was one shown in trailers, said by Luke Skywalker: "This is not going to go the way you think." In the movie, he's talking to Rey, but he may as well have been talking to [...]
The Last Jedi is officially the longest Star Wars movie yet. Director Rian Johnson confirmed recently what has been long reported: the movie's runtime will be 150 minutes. Coming in at two and a half hours, the film is longer than any Star Wars movie has been. For comparison's sake, here's the Star WArs films [...]
We've got some huge and very exciting Star Wars news today, as Lucasfilm announced that Rian Johnson has been tapped to helm a brand new trilogy. This trilogy will be separate from the Skywalker saga, becoming the first of the trilogy films to do so. Lucasfilm's announcement says, "In shepherding this new trilogy, which is [...]
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