We’re in the home stretch. In less than two weeks, Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be released and questions will be answered. Not all the questions, but we’ll finally see Mark Hamill on-screen as Luke Skywalker for the first time in over thirty years and learn just where the saga is going. Now with the final sprint of media obligations upon them, fans are not only getting to hear more stories about the production of the sure-to-be blockbuster (and some kinda-sorta spoilers), but the stars have finally seen the film, so we can enjoy some early, biased reviews.
At a press junket featuring Praetorian Guards for the cast and crew, looks behind the scenes, and lots and lots of merchandise, some interesting little tidbits about The Last Jedi were dropped. Director Rian Johnson stressed that the tone, as the middle movie in a trilogy, is going to be a bit darker, but it retains the spirit of the original movies in fun factor: “I think we’ve been kind of trained to expect it will be a little darker and obviously it looks a little darker. We’re going to go to some intense places in the movie but I hope also it’s fun,” Johnson said.
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Andy Serkis, who plays the possibly very tall Supreme Leader Snoke was particularly enraptured by the intimacy of the story.
“I was so caught up with it not least because it was really intimate and very emotional and I wasn’t expecting that at all. It’s very very powerful, and it touches you. What Rian’s done incredibly is make this dance tonally, between these great epic moments, and hilarious antics, literally flipping on a dime and then going right into the heart of these beautiful characters and you really care.”
So the theorizing over Luke Skywalker’s place in the universe is almost over (for now, maybe). But, that doesn’t mean Mark Hamill doesn’t have one more little mystery wrapped in an enigma for the fans to contemplate. When it was his turn to describe the movie, he said: “My line in the script that epitomized my reaction more than anything, ‘This is not going to go the way you think.'”