#TheLastJedi poster has been revealed. #SWCO pic.twitter.com/fqnf1bQtPu
— Star Wars (@starwars) April 14, 2017
In case you hadn’t noticed, the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi debuted today following the new film’s panel at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando. From digging through all the possible Easter eggs contained within the two minutes and 12 seconds Disney and LucasFilm allowed director Rian Johnson to show, to dissecting the smallest, most interesting morsels hidden therein, Uproxx and the the rest of the Internet kept pretty busy throughout the day — especially when it came to the film’s brand new poster.
Whether you’re a fan of the homage to the original poster for Star Wars: A New Hope or not, you have to admit The Last Jedi‘s poster featuring Rey (Daisy Ridley), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) is pretty gnarly. That, and it is so very ripe for the best and brightest among the Internet’s legion of Photoshop experts. Whether they included the inevitable return of favorite fan target Jar-Jar Binks, allusions to other films like Pineapple Express and Face/Off, or utterly silly experiments in humor, Twitter’s always dependable army of bored-at-work (or jobless) graphic designers didn’t disappoint.
In fact, one could even argue many contributors made The Last Jedi poster better as a result:
Just made this. pic.twitter.com/p5I30Vvq6o
— Honky Pete (@LynchUnhinged) April 14, 2017
— Daniel Danger (@tinymediaempire) April 14, 2017
This poster is unbelievable pic.twitter.com/CyJBDQbQYs
— Chris Gaines fan (@trillballins) April 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/JTEmoviethinks/status/852964477171417088
https://twitter.com/subsahaaron/status/852916550902226944
https://twitter.com/jason_walker24/status/852921363857887232
Fixed it. #TheLastJedi pic.twitter.com/t5tCoHUBoe
— @quebectango – find me on the place without clouds (@QuebecTango) April 14, 2017
Despite all the fun, however, more than a few nit-pickers complained about the poster. Some thought it was an unoriginal knock-off of the original Star Wars one-sheet, while others were perturbed by the apparent lack of symmetry between Luke and Kylo. As one fan pointed out, however, the graphic designers knew what they were doing:
To those crying about the lack of symmetry in #TheLastJedi poster. I just mocked this up. It looks awful. Trust the graphic designers. pic.twitter.com/cxKoUDBOgG
— James Bailey (@BamesJailey) April 14, 2017