"Star Wars: The Last Jedi." Topic

"With Rogue One now marching on at the box office, Lucasfilm and Disney are finally ready to turn their attention towards marketing Star Wars: Episode VIII. The first order of business, which happened earlier this week, was announcing the title: Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Ominous! And now a new interview with writer/director Rian Johnson has surfaced that offers the tiniest bit of insight into his take on the Star Wars universe.

Johnson is, obviously, picking up the baton from J.J. Abrams who essentially rebooted the Star Wars universe with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, crafting a new trilogy for modern audiences. Johnson serves as both writer and director on The Last Jedi, and unlike Force Awakens or Rogue One, we haven't yet heard of any outside writer being brought in for a rewrite. So it's possible The Last Jedi could be our first true auteur-driven Star Wars movie since the George Lucas films…."
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Armand

I suspect "The Last Jedi" rumor is a lie.

Sadly I was wrong when I thought the same about "Attack of the Clones", that had to be a trick to fool the people trying to tease out details for each news release.

Not a rumor my friend…

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Armand

First Off, I have yet to see Rogue One, but have heard great things about it. It would be ironic, if the only SW film (so far) that did Not feature a jedi storyline won a Best Director award. That has yet to happen IIRC.

OK by no means should the "Jedi" dominate the Star Wars 'world', but it has a powerful drawing power all its own, both the 'who & what' they are about factor, and in box office.

But other than practically changing the entire SW Universe, some of us 'grew up with', which 'erked' me. I have to wonder:
What is this preoccupation with "wiping out the Jedi"?

First it was Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
Then as I read the intro of The Force Awakens, and read "Luke Skywalker, the last jedi". All I could think was "Not AGAIN!?"

Like using the cliche' 'dream episode' in TV when they cant think of an intelligent way to solve a problem with a storyline. Make the entire situation a dream, it never happened. POOF And just start something new.

Well..we'll see where this goes.