Star Wars TLJ: Press Tour/Promo Round Up!
The Last Jedi: All the details from Sunday's press conference https://t.co/uwxeqJoYFz
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) December 3, 2017
Press Conference Highlights:
- A lot of stuff we've heard before: everyone is excited for strong female characters, everyone reminisces about Carrie and Leia's impact on women in film.
- John Boyega talks a bit about how it's more of a war film than TFA.
- Domhnall Gleeson talks about Kylo & Hux's rivalry
- Laura Dern loves that her character is strong/confident but also has pink hair.
- The Resistance plot won't dwell on Han Solo's death too much, but the Force plot will.
- Mark Hamill talks about playing the mentor role this time around.
Mark Hamill created a devastating backstory for Luke Skywalker as prep for #TheLastJedi: https://t.co/KYYpQ3cd0N pic.twitter.com/VJeODNxMRk
- Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) December 4, 2017
Mark Hamill on the backstory he came up with for Luke in TLJ:
[He says it is not canon and will not be talked about in the film, but behind a spoiler cut just in case]- Luke fell in love with a widow with a young child. He briefly left the Jedi Order to marry her and raise this kid, but the kid accidentally killed himself with Luke's lightsaber.
Putting them under spoiler cuts organized by interviewee since there's a LOT:
[Rian Johnson (Director)]
Click to view- Original cut of TLJ was over three hours long
- Talks a bit about plans for his next trilogy
[Daisy Ridley]
- Talks about lightsaber fighting, working with Mark Hamill, Snoke, etc.
- Clarifies previous comments about leaving the franchise after IX
[Mark Hamill]
- The Last Jedi/ST is "no longer Luke's story."
[John Boyega]
- Talks about being a Star Wars fan and getting to be in these movies.
- Says that fans probably shouldn't read too much into character accents
[Resistance (Oscar Issac, Laura Dern, Kelly Marie Tran)]
- Oscar Isaac and Laura Dern talk about working with Carrie Fisher, LGBT representation
- Kelly Marie Tran sorts all of the characters into Hogwarts Houses! (Gryffindor: Luke, Leia, Poe, and Rey. Slytherin: Finn and Kylo. Ravenclaw: C3PO and Rose. Hufflepuff: R2D2 and Wicket. She puts Han as a Gryffindor/Slytherin mix lol)
[First Order (Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie, Andy Serkis)]
[Everyone]
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