By JUSTINE PASCUAL
Contributing Writer
Star Wars’ latest installment to the franchise was “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” George Lucas decided to finally give us the explanation of how the Death Star plans got to R2D2 in “Star Wars: A New Hope.” “Rogue One” actually takes place ten minutes before “A New Hope” begins, but of course they needed to flesh it out to make the story be around two hours and 13 minutes.
The next episode’s title was finally released on Monday, Jan. 23. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” will be debuting in theaters on Dec. 15, 2017.
With the title release, there’s so much speculation. What could this movie possibly be about? The last episode of Star Wars, which was “The Force Awakens,” stars breakout performer Daisy Ridley.
Ridley portrayed the main character, Rey, who the movie followed as she journeyed to discover who she really is.
Those of you who have seen it know that Rey is force-sensitive (meaning that she can use the Force and control a lightsaber), and at the very end of the movie in the now-iconic last scene, we saw Rey handing Luke Skywalker back his lightsaber.
I believe that in Episode VIII, we’ll see Luke finally accepting back his lightsaber form Rey, followed with heavy conversation around using the Force and what being a jedi means.
If you go through the hashtag #thelastjedi on Twitter, you can see everyone’s theories about what will happen in the movie. Already there have been fan-made opening crawls for the movie.
Since “The Force Awakens” opened last year, there have been many theories about who Rey’s parents could be.
This is going to be revealed in “The Last Jedi,” and I couldn’t be more excited! I’ve been talking to a few other huge Star Wars fans, and we have some theories of our own–I won’t put my theories here, though.
I’ll leave that up to you as the reader to think of who Rey’s parents could be. She has been wearing the same hairstyle and outfit since she was first dropped off on the planet of Jakku, so maybe that will give us a clue to who her parents are.
I know I’m excited to see Maz Kanata again. She was pretty badass in “The Force Awakens,” and the voice talents of Lupita Nyong’o brought her to life.
General Leia Organa is also said to be making an appearance in the film, since Carrie Fisher was able to film her scenes before passing away.
I know I’ll be crying when I see her on screen one last time. Prepare yourselves with tissues if, like me, you were (and still are) a big fan of the late Carrie Fisher’s work.
Luckily, according to collider.com, Carrie had been rumored to finish filming a bigger part for Leia in this next episode.
Let’s hope the rumors are true! I love the new trio of Finn, Poe, and Rey and I’m just so excited to see all three of them again on the big screen.
