Star Wars - Episode VIII: Die letzten Jedi

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Genre	Action
Laufzeit	152 Minuten
Ton
	DTS
	Dolby Surround 7.1
	Dolby Atmos
	Dolby Digital
	12-Track Digital Sound
	IMAX 6-Track
Budget	0 $
Erscheinungsdatum
	USA: 09.12.2017
	Germany: 14.12.2017
	USA: 15.12.2017
Websites
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	Official Site [France]

Beschreibung

Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order.

Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order.Jedi Master in hiding Luke Skywalker unwillingly attempts to guide young hopeful Rey in the ways of the force, while Leia, former princess turned general, attempts to lead what is left of the Resistance away from the ruthless tyrannical grip of the First Order. - Danny MonizContinuing where Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) left off, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) sees The Resistance striving to stay ahead of The First Order. Rey seeks guidance from Jedi-in-hiding Luke Skywalker so she can learn the ways of The Force, and defected storm-trooper FN-2187 (Finn) will have his faith in The Resistance tested as his past with The First Order comes to haunt not only him, but also threatens the very foundations of the galaxy's future. - Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)Following the battle of Starkiller Base, General Leia Organa leads Resistance forces to flee D'Qar when a First Order fleet arrives. Poe Dameron leads a costly counterattack that destroys a First Order dreadnought, but after the Resistance escapes to hyperspace, the First Order tracks them and attacks the Resistance convoy. Kylo Ren, Leia's son, hesitates to fire on the lead Resistance ship after sensing his mother's presence, but his wing-men destroy the bridge, killing most of the Resistance leadership and incapacitating Leia, who survives by using the Force. Disapproving of new leader Vice Admiral Holdo's passive strategy, Poe helps Finn, BB-8, and mechanic Rose Tico embark on a secret mission to disable the First Order's tracking device..

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Regisseur

Schauspieler

Mark Hamill

(Luke Skywalker / Dobbu Scay)

Carrie Fisher

(Leia Organa)

Adam Driver

(Kylo Ren)

Daisy Ridley

(Rey)

John Boyega

(Finn)

Oscar Isaac

(Poe Dameron)

Andy Serkis

(Snoke)

Lupita Nyong'o

(Maz Kanata)

Domhnall Gleeson

(General Hux)

Anthony Daniels

(C-3PO)

Gwendoline Christie

(Captain Phasma)

Kelly Marie Tran

(Rose Tico)

Laura Dern

(Vice Admiral Holdo)

Benicio Del Toro

(DJ)

Frank Oz

(Yoda)

Billie Lourd

(Lieutenant Connix)

Joonas Suotamo

(Chewbacca)

Amanda Lawrence

(Commander D'Acy)

Jimmy Vee

(R2-D2)

Brian Herring

(BB-8 Performed By)

Dave Chapman

(BB-8 Performed By)

Justin Theroux

(Master Codebreaker)

Tim Rose

(Admiral Ackbar)

Tom Kane

(Admiral Ackbar)

Adrian Edmondson

(Captain Peavey)

Mark Lewis Jones

(Captain Canady)

Hermione Corfield

(A-Wing Pilot Tallie)

Veronica Ngo

(Paige Tico)

Noah Segan

(X-Wing Pilot Starck)

Jamie Christopher

(X-Wing Pilot Tubbs)

Paul Kasey

(C'ai Threnalli)

Michaela Coel

(Resistance Monitor)

Jonathan Harden

(Resistance Monitor)

Dan Euston

(Resistance Bombardier)

Priyanga Burford

(Resistance Medical Officer)

Navin Chowdhry

(Resistance Cargo Pilot)

Andrew Jack

(General Ematt)

Crystal Clarke

(Resistance Transport Pilot)

Aki Omoshaybi

(Resistance Bridge Officer)

Togo Igawa

(Resistance Bridge Officer)

Hugh Skinner

(Holdo's First Officer)

Tim Steed

(Holdo's First Officer)

Simon Lowe

(Resistance Hangar Captain)

Joe Van Moyland

(Temporary Command Center Resistance Pilot)

Shauna Macdonald

(Temporary Command Center Resistance Pilot)

Darren Morfitt

(Transport Deck Officer)

Gerard Monaco

(First Order Commander)

Kate Dickie

(Hux's First Order Monitor)

Patrick O'Kane

(Hux's First Order Officer)

Paul Bazely

(Hux's First Order Officer)

Orion Lee

(Canady's First Order Monitor)

Amira Ghazalla

(Canady's First Order Commander)

Ralph Ineson

(Senior First Order Officer)

Akshay Kumar

(Mega-Destroyer First Order Monitor)

Michael Jibson

(Kylo's Shuttle Pilot)

Luke Neal

(Canto Cop)

Andy Nyman

(Jail Guard)

Temirlan Blaev

(Stable Boy)

Josiah Oniha

(Stable Kid)

Sara Heller

(Stable Kid)

Matthew Sharp

(Resistance Trench Sergeant 'Salty')

Lily Cole

(Party Girl Lovey)

Warwick Davis

(Wodibin)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

(Slowen Lo)

Kiran Shah

(Neepers Panpick)

Mike Quinn

(Nien Nunb)

Gareth Edwards

(Resistance Trench Soldier)

Jack Greenlees

(Resistance Evacuation Officer)

Danny Sapani

(Medical Frigate Captain)

Kevin Layne

(Resistance Bomber Pilot #1)

Ben Morris

(Resistance Bomber Pilot Teene)

Andrew Abbott

(Canto Bight Gambler)

Chris Adams

(Stormtrooper)

Martin Bratanov

(First Order Officer)

Dante Briggins

(Stormtrooper)

Jair Burgos

(Stormtrooper)

Glen Carroll

(Reemar Kayvonix / Stormtrooper)

Bern Collaço

(Stormtrooper)

Joe Cornish

(Resistance Trooper)

Cavin Cornwall

(Pemmin Brunce)

James Cox

(Praetorian Guard)

Sarah-Jane De Crespigny

(Lady)

Quentin Devine

(Rebel)

Gary the Dog

(Space Gary)

Nick Donald

(Stormtrooper)

Steve Doyle

(First Order Officer)

Karl Farrer

(Canto Bight Casino Patron)

James Filanowski

(Resistance Trooper)

David R. Grant

(Praetorian Guard)

Omar Gudjonsson

(X-Wing Pilot)

Chelsea Hamill

(Koo Millham)

Griffin Hamill

(Salaka Kuchimba)

Nathan Hamill

(Saile Minnau)

Craig Izzard

(Stormtrooper)

Christopher Jaciow

(Stormtrooper)

Tobias James-Samuels

(First Order Officer / Stormtrooper)

Lucas Jones

(Canto Bight Casino Droid)

Mickey Lewis

(Resistance Bridge Comms)

Tyrone Love

(Stormtrooper)

Antonio Lujak

(Masseur)

Josh Methven

(Resistance Trooper)

Sandeep Mohan

(Snowtrooper)

Ross Moneypenny

(Stormtrooper)

Florian Robin

(Praetorian Guard / Ronith Blario)

David M. Santana

(Stormtrooper Commander)

Tanner Scott

(Resistance Trooper)

Clem So

(Canto Bight Casino Patron)

Leo Thompson

(Resistance Trooper)

Daniela Tlumacova

(Resistance Transport Pilot Cova Nell)

George Vere

(X-Wing Pilot)

Andy Wareham

(Praetorian Guard)

Dean Weir

(First Order Officer)

William Willoughby

(Praetorian Guard)

Latesha Wilson

(Derla Pidys)

Edgar Wright

(Resistance Trooper)

Oscar Wright

(Resistance Trooper)

Liang Yang

(Praetorian Guard)

Karanja Yorke

(Praetorian Guard)

J.J. Abrams

(executive producer)

Pippa Anderson

(co-producer)

Ram Bergman

(producer (produced by) (p.g.a.))

Candice D. Campos

(co-producer)

Leifur B. Dagfinnsson

(producer: Iceland unit)

Nour Dardari

(associate producer)

Boris Dmitrovic

(line producer: Croatia)

Kiri Hart

(co-producer)

Leopold Hughes

(associate producer)

Andres Jauernick

(service producer: Bolivia)

Finni Johannsson

(line producer: Iceland)

Nikos Karamigios

(associate producer)

Tom Karnowski

(executive producer)

Kathleen Kennedy

(producer (produced by) (p.g.a.))

Jason D. McGatlin

(executive producer)

Rian Johnson

((written by))

George Lucas

((based on characters created by))

John Williams

((music by))

Verrücktes

Chewbacca Consultant: Peter MayhewThe stars that form the backdrop for the end credits are exactly the same stars as the stars from the backdrop for the end credits of Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) .

Fehler

Audio/visual unsynchronised

When Fin and Rose are caught and standing in the hangar, a bunch of storm troopers are marching. The marching sound does not match the footsteps.

Character error

Finn and Rose are in a hurry to save the Resistance by fetching the code breaker, but for some reason, freeing the racing alien horses is important enough to delay saving the day.

Character error

Rey doesn't remember her past and her parents. A nine years old girl definitely wouldn't have forgotten a story like hers ten years later.

Character error

The level of uncomfortable feel that Rey shows when she sees a naked torso is strange from somebody who grew up in a desert.

Continuity

When Finn is trying to board the escape pod, he places his bag outside of the pod. When Rose stuns him into the pod, his bag is inside.

Continuity

Just before a Praetorian Guard puts Rey into a headlock, the guard is holding a vibro-arbir blade in each hand. In the same shot, only a few seconds later, the blade in the guard's left hand has vanished behind Rey's back, and is never seen again.

Continuity

When Poe gets permission to leave the bridge and runs towards the X-Wing bay, several pilots on the bridge follow him, including the alien C'ai Threnalli. However, immediately after we see C'ai run out of frame, there is a reaction shot of Finn with C'ai still standing at a console in the background.

Continuity

On the way toward the opening bombing run, Poe's helmet mic is extended straight out. In mid-sentence, the camera cuts to the opposite side of his face and the the mic has been re-positioned 90-degrees now properly located under his chin.

Continuity

Close-ups of Leia's hands show longer, manicured nails, immediately followed by unmanicured, ragged, much shorter nails. (When Poe reaches out to her, and when Luke gives her the dice, among other instances.)

Continuity

In the first shot of the scene where Luke talks to R2D2 on the Millennium Falcon, R2D2's head turns towards Luke. In the next reverse shot it is still facing away, then turns around again in the next shot.

Continuity

In one of the first scenes Finn is talking to Admiral Ackbar and they're facing the window, while in the next cut Admiral Ackbar is facing another side.

Continuity

At some point, Rey cries and tears are running down her face. The line of her left tear disappears and reappears between the shots.

Continuity

When the fathiers stampede out the stable, a guard rushes into the corner of the room near a pipe. In the next shot the guard is no longer there.

Continuity

When Rey arrived at Snoke's ship, Kylo Ren noticeably has a visible mustache and a small beard on his chin. It was not in the previous scene (shirtless scene) or the next scene in the throne room.

Continuity

During the conversation between Kylo and Rey, the distance between their faces varies.

Factual errors

The First Order flagship was firing at the Raddus. The rounds that were fired were traveling in a curved line towards the Raddus; whether missiles or energy bolts, the rounds, being fired in space and outside of a gravity field, should only travel in a straight line.

Miscellaneous

Considering the size of the galaxy far, far away (or any galaxy for that matter), the opposing armies seem weirdly small for a galaxy-level war. Neither fleet seems big enough to conquer a single system, let alone a galaxy.

Miscellaneous

For some reason, the 'blow smoke from the tip of a gun's barrel' western cliche move exists in the Star Wars universe. Even though the smoke from the barrel of blasters to blow does not (as gunpowder is unknown in this galaxy, so no gun provides any smoke).

Miscellaneous

The Rebel speeders on Crait pull a red cloud behind them, the non-verbal equivalent of a 'PLEASE SHOOT HERE' flag. Whoever originally chose this type of speeders to use on this planet in whatever time period was a total idiot.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Paige is seen inside her ship with the doors open to allow the bombs to be dropped out of the ship. She does not have any kind of oxygen mask or supply, despite this sequence being set in space. However, all through the Star Wars films, there are openings into space that do not affect a ship's atmosphere. We see this in a New Hope in the Death Star hangar bays and in The Force Awakens when Poe and Finn steal the TIE Fighter. A thin magnetic shield is used to allow solid matter, but not gasses, to pass through it.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

In the opening sequence the bombers are going to throw bombs on an enemy ship. Since they are in space this won't work. Bombs don't fall down in space. They would need some kind of fire device to fire them down. The canon of this movie confirms that these bombs are magnetic in nature and would therefore be attracted to an enemy spaceship's hull.

Plot holes

The rebels cannot jump to light speed because the First Order can track them, but the the First Order cannot catch up to them, they can only keep pace. But, it would be a simple matter for the First Order to have a couple ships go to light speed a short distance and immediately return just ahead of the rebels. The First Order could easily and quickly destroy the Rebels with this simple tactic. The resistance would have been trapped in a flanking attack and overpowered by the First Order.

Plot holes

It is stated that Snoke turned Kylo Ren to the dark side while he learned at Luke's Jedi academy (probably through the Force visions Snoke later uses to lure Rey to his ship). Snoke was clearly a threat back then, being a dark side Force user, yet there is no mention about any attempt to stop him previously. Clarification: It is established in Star Wars canon that powerful Dark Side users can use the Force to obscure their presence and their actions from other Force-users.

CORRECTION: If Snoke had cloaked himself in the hide of the Force, nobody would mention him by name as the main villain, but even back in EP7, Han Solo mentions him multiple time as the one responsible for Kylo Ren's turn to the dark side.

Plot holes

In Star Wars, droids like R2-D2 and BB-8 can hack through security systems. Finn and Rose take BB-8 with them to their side quest. Why do they need a code breaker? Even configuring BB-8 for the task would be much faster than the detour to the casino.

Plot holes

During the low-speed chase, the First Order chases the Rebel fleet until its ships run out of fuel. When they do run out of fuel, the First Order ships are able to overtake them and destroy them.

This makes absolutely no sense, as the laws of physics dictate that an object's inertial movement will keep it moving at the same rate absent any external force. The chase is taking place in the vacuum of space, so even if the ships do run out of fuel, they'll continue to move at the same speed they did when their thrusters were functioning properly. There's no friction in space, so until the ships get caught in some massive object's (such as a planet's or star's) gravitational field, they would continue to move at the same speed, potentially for years, decades, centuries, or even millennia.

Revealing mistakes

When the fathiers are let free and running through the club house, there is a closeup of the vibrations in a glass of tea on the table in the hall way. As the camera pulls back, no table in the dining room is disturbed- shakers, vase, etc.

Revealing mistakes

In the last battle, the battle speeder fleet view from the back show their shadow front to the right but everything else- AT-M6's, cannon towers, etc show a shadow which should be back right to the speeders.

Continuity

If the topsoil of the planet Crait is disturbed, the white sand reveals the red, salty material. When Finn and Rose arrive to the planet, they drag on the ground in the First Order Transport Shuttle before entering through the gate. In a later shot of the gate, the ground appears white and undisturbed.

Continuity

In the last scene of light saber battle, after firing like crazy at Luke, the white ground covering is disturbed, and the ground is burned from the heat from the energy blasts. During the duel, the ground is back to white sand again.

Continuity

The second time Snoke and Kylo Ren meet in the red room, you can see two black-clothed technicians in the background. Although the door is always in the shot and they are not seen leaving, they suddenly disappear.

Continuity

On the Island when Rey falls into the dark hole, she is underwater, but right afterward as she is walking and duplicated, her hair is wet but her clothing is dry.

Continuity

When Hux examines the aftermath of the Red Room, he turns his head to look at Kylo Ren unconscious on the floor behind him. In the next shot Hux is facing Ren.

Continuity

When Kylo Ren fights Luke Skywalker, his hold on the lightsaber switches from backhand to normal and backhand again between cuts.

Continuity

When Kylo Ren kills the last red guard, the right hand of the guard opens. In the next shot, his right hand is a closed fist again.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Finn and Rose crash right in front of the battering ram cannon, which is shown to be heavily guarded. The enemy forces are under a "no prisoners" order. How were the heroes able to traverse the great distance back the mine's entrance without being attacked? Because Kylo Ren issued an order to have all guns fire on Luke Skywalker, therefore the enemy's attention was divided. Furthermore, it is shown that there is a trench they could take refuge in, which other soldiers are shown using.

CORRECTION:

Finn and Rose crash directly in front of the First Order troops and well before Luke shows up. Also the trench that they could have, but didn't, gone to was much closer to the Resistance base than it was to the First Order troops. They would have still had to cross a large amount of open ground before reaching safety.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

During the slow-mo chase, the rebels lost 2 or 3 support ships that ran out of fuel. It is established that the fuel for sub-light engines vs light-speed engines is separate. So why didn't they send all the support ships at the star destroyers at light speed to destroy them? The last person on board was going to die anyhow. Or why didn't the last capital ship head to the same planet to cover the shuttle retreat, there by lending cover to the shuttles? Clarification: The crews of the Ninka and the medical support ship are shown being evacuated to the Raddus before they run out of fuel, leaving them empty by the time they are destroyed. Other Star Wars media has established that jumping to hyperspace through a solid object is incredibly dangerous to any object in the vicinity, including friendly ships, due to hyper-accelerated shrapnel and the complex physics of hyperspace. Because Holdo had a plan to stealthily land on the planet Crait, which she had presumably communicated to other officers, there was at the time no need to try such a potentially disastrous maneuver, Holdo only took such a risk when the threat of total annihilation was imminent. The evacuation shuttles were already far away from the Raddus when the First Order opened fire on them, making it impossible for the Raddus - a larger, less maneuverable ship with virtually no fuel left - to have reached the shuttles before they were wiped out.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

When Rey wants to hear the real truth from Luke of what has happened to Kylo and him you can see the rain pouring down. But when Rey leaves Luke's planet one shot later, it is not raining anymore and Luke and his clothes have become dry in just a few seconds. However, we know that more than a few seconds has passed because we know it takes a while to climb down to the Falcon and we also know that Rey took the Ancient Jedi texts with her.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

In all previous movies "Jedi ghosts" could only be seen by and interact with other Jedi, but in this movie "ghost Yoda" was able to summon lightning to destroy the Jedi tree. This ability would not fundamentally alter the course of the Star Wars Universe in the slightest, since the Jedi ghosts generally follow a path of minimal intervention.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Leia Organa is so powerful with the force that she can fly through space like Superman, yet when the rebels are trapped they must rely on Rey's ability to remove the rocks even though Leia is with them. Clarification: While The Empire Strikes Back established that the weight of the object being moved is irrelevant to use of the Force, it has also established that the perceived weight of objects creates a psychological barrier to anyone untrained in use of the Force. The number of objects and the ability to see an object does have an impact on the ease with which the Force can be used to move things. Moving one object one direction in a weightless, frictionless environment is a relatively rudimentary use of the Force, while simultaneously controlling the movement of several dozen multi-ton objects, some of which aren't visible to the force-user in question is drastically more difficult. Also, one instance instinctive use of the Force under extreme physical duress is not the same as continuous, willful use of the Force.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

The dice toy was projected to Crait by Luke, the original is shown to be on the Falcon. Yet it stays on Crait minutes after Luke died. This also happened with water being projected through the Force into Kylo Ren's hands, so this is probably possible in the Star Wars universe.

Plot holes

On the planet Crait, Rose collides with Finn to stop him from committing suicide. Rose passes out. in a few minutes Leia and the crew are looking for an escape route while Luke fights. As they escape, Finn shows up dragging Rose. 2 problems - 1 it is pretty far to drag Rose to get back there that quick, he would have to be dragging her right past Luke fighting, Kylo's ship, and right in front of all the AT-M6s to get the best time. 2- there is a long trench where soldiers shot from. Either he went around or would have to lower her then lift her up almost over his head to get past that obstacle.

Plot holes

Despite Rian Johnson's excuse that Luke uses Anakin's lightsaber to taunt Kylo Ren, Luke has no way of knowing about Ren's interest in the saber, it having been lost over thirty years. Ren only ever shows interest in it to Finn, Rey having been knocked unconscious. Finn never interacts with Luke and could not have told Rey about Ren's interest in the saber.

Plot holes

The Force projection trick of Luke works, Kylo Ren believes it even when he sees the blue Skywalker-lightsaber, which he and Rey RIPPED APART approx. three scenes before.

Plot holes

The dice toy was projected to Crait by Luke, the original is shown to be on the Falcon. Yet it stays on Crait minutes after Luke died.

Plot holes

Snoke is so powerful he can generate visions for Rey and Kylo Ren, but he can't feel the Force moving the lightsaber right next to him.

Trivia

Mark Hamill and Rian Johnson revealed at a BAFTA screening that Hamill asked to play a CG character, saying that he had done it before (He had previous done CGI work for the computer game "Star Citizen"). In the film he plays the character who puts money inside BB-8 in the Casino scenes.

With the passing of Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels is now the only remaining actor to appear in all the official Star Wars films.

Carrie Fisher was also a well-known writer, whose services were often called upon to act as script doctor for other films. She later began declining such assignments when producers would solicit her story ideas, then hire someone else to actually change the script, and use Fisher's ideas without paying her. However, director Rian Johnson revealed that Fisher helped with the writing of the script for this film.

After first completing the arduous 600-foot climb on Ireland's Skellig Michael island, Mark Hamill had hoped that he could avoid having to repeat the trek for additional scenes if he could somehow remain on the summit overnight, thus forfeiting the luxury of room service at his hotel. He suggested sleeping in a tent and 'staying in character.' However, after some inquiries were made with the Irish authorities, he was told by producer Kathleen Kennedy that he was not permitted to pitch a tent because the location is a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site.

"I changed my hair" was a line that Carrie Fisher ad-libbed herself.

According to director Rian Johnson, the Porgs were the result of puffins being native to Skellig Michael, the island where the Achto scenes were filmed. They were unable to move them as they are a protected species and it would've been too time consuming and expensive to edit them out of the shots, so Rian decided to create a new indigenous species and simply CGI over the puffins.

Daisy Ridley took her father to the set in Ireland, where the ending scene of Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015) was about to be recreated. When her father met Mark Hamill, he asked him, "Who do you play, then?" Ridley admitted she was not sure if her father was joking.

This was the first film in the series in which Kenny Baker was not involved in the portrayal of R2-D2. Jimmy Vee was given the job, shortly before Baker's death.

When filming, Laura Dern said "pew" every time she shot her blaster. Although not audible, one such instance even made it into the finished film. It can be noticed in the close-up shot when Holdo is stunning her opponents.

Although Disney decided not to use George Lucas's story outlines for Episodes VII, VIII, and IX after the purchase of his company, a couple of Lucas's ideas surfaced in this film, including Luke Skywalker living as a recluse and training a female Jedi (in Lucas's outline her name was Kira).

The three Resistance fighters who pop up from the trenches on Crait are Mark Hamill's children.

Luke Skywalker bears a strong resemblance to Obi-Wan Kenobi's appearance in the original Star Wars trilogy. In fact, Mark Hamill reprised his role in 2015 at the age of 64, while Sir Alec Guinness was 63 when he was first cast as Obi-Wan Kenobi.

After the breakthrough CGI that was displayed in Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) for recreating long gone actors, the filmmakers of this film saw fit to issue statements ahead of release, shutting down any speculations (or worries) on the possibility of such a technology being used for the late Carrie Fisher. In short, all her scenes (barring the stunts) are categorically hers, including the dialogue.

Ewan McGregor expressed his interest to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in this film. Rian Johnson wanted to include him, but could not find a place in the story to naturally insert the character.

General Leia Organa's Mon Calamari cruiser bears the name "Raddus," named for the character of Admiral Raddus in Star Wars: Rogue One (2016).

Kelly Marie Tran did not tell anyone she was doing the movie and lied that she was doing an indie film in Canada. At one point, she got some maple syrup to bring back to her parents so they would believe she was actually in Canada.

Joaquin Phoenix turned down the role that eventually went to Benicio Del Toro.

The door to Luke's hut on Ahch-To is made from the wing of his X-wing.

Rian Johnson's original cut of the film exceeded three hours. Reports say he cut between 45 and 60 minutes to get the film down to a more palatable run time.

With a running time of 152 minutes, this is the longest movie of the Star Wars saga. The previous record was held by Star Wars: Episode II - Angriff der Klonkrieger (2002), with 142 minutes.

As of 2017, this is the only film in the Star Wars universe to not feature the popular phrase "I have a bad feeling about this" spoken audibly. Obi Wan says it in Episode I, Anakin says it in Episode II, Obi Wan says it again in Episode III, Luke and Han say it in Episode IV, Leia says it in Episode V, Han says it again in Episodes VI and VII and K2SO starts to say it but is cut off in Rogue One. Director Rian Johnson has stated that the line is said by BB-8, but since he speaks in droid language, the line is not actually heard.

This is the eighth Star Wars film to be scored by John Williams.

There was a lot of discussion about how Captain Phasma's face should look under her helmet. It was Daisy Ridley who suggested that her eye should appear unscarred and human.

Luke Skywalker blowing the walls apart in the hut when he sees Kylo Ren and Rey Force-connecting was a practical effect. It was achieved with fake bricks on wires.

Luke Skywalker refers to a lightsaber as a "laser sword." The only other character in the saga to do so was Anakin Skywalker in Episode I.

Gwendoline Christie was trained in fighting by swordmaster C.C. Smiff, the same stuntman who had trained her for her fighting scenes in Game of Thrones - Das Lied von Eis und Feuer (2011).

For the sequence where Kylo Ren connects with Leia Organa before choosing not to fire, editors used the same three frame dissolves used in The Empire Strikes Back between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.

Carrie Fisher's dog Gary Fisher appears in the casino. When Rose and Finn are talking, he is visible on the left side of the screen beneath the man in the black fez. Rian Johnson confirmed this after a fan spotted the dog in a production still.

Rian Johnson was offered the chance to direct the next film in the saga, Star Wars: Episode IX (2019) based on executive reactions to early versions of this film. Johnson turned down the offer due to the film's tight production schedule. Lucasfilm then offered him a three picture deal to create his own trilogy set in the "Star Wars" universe.

According to stunt coordinator Liang Yang, the lightsaber movements Daisy Ridley performed usually take three days to learn. However, Ridley was able to learn them in only one and a half hours.

This was Carrie Fisher's final film; she died in December 2016.

In keeping with a long-time series tradition, the opening shot after the text crawl shows a space vehicle flying either away from or toward the screen (in this case, several Resistance transport ships fly towards the screen).

Luke Skywalker mentions Darth Sidious by name, the only throwback to a name that only appeared in the prequel trilogy (Though Darth Sidious appears in Das Imperium schlägt zurück (1980) and Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (1983), he is only referred to as the Emperor). It is likely that Luke learned the Sith title of Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine, a name also used only in the prequel trilogy, by conversing with the Force ghosts of Obi-Wan or Yoda sometime between Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (1983) and Star Wars - Episode VIII: Die letzten Jedi (2017)

Director Rian Johnson admits that he moved Kylo Ren's facial injury. In Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015), Rey slices his face with her lightsaber, giving him a laceration that goes across the bridge of his nose. In this film, the injury has scabbed over, but is now over his right eye. Johnson says a scab over his nose did not look right. Coincidentally, the placement of the scar matches a similar injury on Anakin Skywalker, in Star Wars: Episode III - Die Rache der Sith (2005).

The production name for Episode VIII is "Space Bear."

The location filming in Ireland was intended to follow on from the dark Skellig ending of Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015). However, the weather was unseasonably good and shooting took longer than expected.

R2-D2's hologram of Princess Leia was re-created with original footage shot for A New Hope.

Original burn marks are still visible on Luke's mechanical hand.

Lawrence Kasdan initially wrote a story outline for the film, but was called away to work on Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015) when problems arose with that film's initial script. When Rian Johnson signed on as director, he requested to be allowed to scrap Kasdan's story and write his own script from scratch, to which the producers consented, as Kasdan's outline no longer matched up with the finished storyline of the previous film.

Production designer Rick Heinrichs said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the original screenplay by writer-director Rian Johnson was so ambitious that it had double the number of sets you might expect on a film like this. "The original script had about 160 sets in it, a ridiculous amount of sets. I didn't say that to Rian, because I figured on something this big he'll find that out on his own. It's a 100-day shooting schedule," says Heinrichs. "So there's more than one set a day you have to prepare for." In the end, the production settled on 125 sets on 14 stages at Pinewood Studios. "The truth is we ended up combining things and trying to be smart about how we're going to do it," says Heinrichs. "He did do some trimming and cutting. It forced him to actually cut the shoe leather, as they say, and combine things in the script as well and reduce a number of things that way."

The original release date was May 26, 2017. However, in January of 2016, the film's release was rescheduled for December 15, 2017, based on how successful Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015) was releasing in December.

The film was released over forty years after Krieg der Sterne (1977) and marked the 40th anniversary of the Star Wars film franchise.

The creatures known as Porgs are never actually mentioned by name on screen.

In December 2015, the production team of this film and Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) went to Mexico City, Mexico looking for filming locations, specifically at Iztapalapa and Tlahuac boroughs. It was later confirmed that some scenes for both films would be filmed in Mexico City, but due to some trouble with the local government the filming was cancelled.

Director Rian Johnson stated that Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) took inspiration from the films Der Kommandeur (1949), Ein Brief, der nie ankam (1960), Die Brücke am Kwai (1957) (which earned Sir Alec Guinness an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Sanbiki no samurai (1964).

Highest billing for Carrie Fisher in a "Star Wars" film.

According to Rian Johnson, Luke Skywalker's rationale for exiling himself on the island was that the Jedi were not helping and were instead perpetuating the cycle of the Jedi and Sith. They needed to go away so a new light could rise from a more worthy source.

The ship in which Finn and Rose skid across the floor of the mine is a huge practical rig on a massive track.

The Stormtrooper armor is slightly different from the one seen in Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015). The most striking difference can be noticed on the helmet, which has sharper contours and resembles the design of the classic Stormtroopers.

Chelsea Hamill, Nathan Hamill and Griffin Hamill, the children of Mark Hamill, have uncredited appearances as Resistance members.

Lieutenant Connix played by Billie Lourd is the daughter of Carrie Fisher and talent agent Bryan Lourd.

DJ's final line "Maybe" was improvised on set by Benicio Del Toro.

In the original trilogy, Mark Hamill received top billing for all three films. In Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015), Harrison Ford received top billing while Hamill received second billing. Hamill received top billing once more in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).

Rian Johnson brought Frank Oz into the editing room for guidance about editing scenes with a puppet.

Early filming took place with Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley on Skellig Michael off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland, in late September 2015. On February 15, 2016, LucasFilm posted a short production-announcement video, which included some footage and behind-the-scenes shots, and which picked up immediately after the final scene of Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015). Main photography was scheduled to begin in early January 2016 but was delayed a month reportedly due to script revisions, and began on February 15.

The title of "Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi" was first published in Spain and translated to "Los Últimos Jedi," meaning the title is plural. In Italy too it has been translated as "Gli Ultimi Jedi" (plural)

Originally the line, "It's time for the Jedi to end" was much longer, but it was shortened for a trailer. Rian Johnson liked it so much, he went back and used it in the final cut.

In late 2017, director Rian Johnson shot down Internet rumors that Billy Dee Williams would reprise his role of Lando Calrissian in this film, stating, "He's not in the film, and it was never really something that came up. I mean, I loved that character. It would have been fun to see him, but it's just not something that ever really had a place in the story."

First mention of Books in the Star Wars Franchise.

The Millennium Falcon's escape pod was designed to look like a coffin.

It was Frank Oz's idea to reveal Yoda through silhouette.

The original opening of the movie had the camera tilting down from the crawl to find Finn waking up in the healing suit.

According to Rian Johnson, Laura Dern could not resist saying "pew pew pew!" when she was required to fire a blaster. This is similar to Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in the prequels: both had a habit of making lightsaber noises while they dueled.

The communications device shooting out of BB-8 was a practical effect.

The insert shot of the computer screen showing the status of the Resistance ships was filmed during a makeup test.

A rig was created for BB-8 to actually shoot coins out of his body.

Rian Johnson was originally considered to direct Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015).

Slowen Lo is a reference to the Beastie Boys song "Slow and Low". J.J. Abrams, who executive produced the film, is a huge Beastie Boys fan and has worked references to them in his previous films.

The best advice Rian Johnson received from the editors of The Force Awakens was "In every single scene, shoot a cutaway of BB-8 and you'll never regret it."

As with Krieg der Sterne (1977), Das Imperium schlägt zurück (1980), Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (1983), and Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015), the episode number was not included in the official marketing of the film. However, it appeared in the opening title crawl.

The Millenium Falcon has less screen time in this film than in any other Star Wars movie it has appeared in, but for its single-scene cameo in Star Wars: Episode III - Die Rache der Sith (2005).

The opening weekend box office made more than all of director/writer Rian Johnson's previous films combined.

The Thala-Siren puppets on Ahch-To needed to be helicoptered in by cables to the edge of the water.

"The Last Jedi" was also the title of a 2013 tie-in novel with the old "Legends" Expanded Universe book series, set sometime after Star Wars: Episode III - Die Rache der Sith (2005).

One sound effect from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey can be heard in the escape pod scene with Finn.

The viewer that Poe looks through is actually a repurposed Super 8 camera.

Paige popping up through the bomber floor was the first shot completed on the Pinewood Stage with an actor.

The shot of Kylo Ren entering the Resistance base on Crait is a conscious echo of the shot in Revenge of the Sith where Anakin Skywalker enters the Jedi temple.

Grossed $450 million worldwide in just 3 days.

Rian Johnson and Cinematographer Steve Yedlin needed a way to distinguish the Dreadnought bridge from the Star Destroyer bridge. While on set, they came up with the idea of adding a red light, like a submarine.

Many fans were disappointed by how this film continued several of the plot threads started in Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015), and how it answered some of its lingering questions. Writer/director Rian Johnson stated in interviews that he had read J.J. Abrams' script for The Force Awakens, but Abrams never shared any long-term plans he had for the next two films. In fact, there was never an overarching story outline for the trilogy that he had to adhere to; both Abrams and Lucasfilm gave Johnson almost full creative freedom to develop the story as he saw fit, and they were reportedly enthusiastic about some of his more controversial choices.

This is the FIFTH official Star Wars film for Warwick Davis, playing a different character or characters in each movie. Starting with Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (1983) in 1983 as the Ewok Wicket (the 2 subsequent Ewok movies don't count), he's since played characters in Star Wars: Episode I - Die dunkle Bedrohung (1999), Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015), Star Wars: Rogue One (2016), and Star Wars - Episode VIII: Die letzten Jedi (2017). He's also had a voice role in the animated series Star Wars: Rebels (2014).

The design of Canto Bight was heavily inspired by the city of Monaco. Additionally, several elements of Ralph McQuarrie's concept arts for Jabba's palace were incorporated into the design.

The shot of the bombs falling through the bomber doors is entirely practical except for the small blue screen of space in the background.

The shot of the water splashing off Rey is a practical effect. Water was dropped onto actress Daisy Ridley, then the shot was reversed.

This was the first of director Rian Johnson's films to not be scored by his cousin, Nathan Johnson.

The first Star Wars movie without Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca. Joonas Suotamo played him in this film. He also acted as Chewbacca's body double in The Force Awakens.

Laura Dern plays a high-ranking Rebel officer in this movie, but is probably best-known as Dr. Ellie Sattler from the Jurassic Park franchise. A rippling cup of tea is shown in The Last Jedi, a direct nod to the iconic cup of water from Jurassic Park.

In the brief moment that you can see Luke's robotic hand, if you look towards the bottom, near the wrist, you can see the formation of a blaster hole. This is the mark that was left there from when Luke was shot in his hand while on Jabba's barge during Return of the Jedi.

The shot of Finn waking up was originally the first shot of the movie.

The Resistance fighter at the console on the bridge of the ship was Daisy Ridley's stand-in.

The Aurebesh lettering on Rose Tico's Resistance coveralls reads "GLD" and "landing officer." The same words were printed on the background alien Vober Dand's clothing in Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015), and according to the Visual Guide published for that movie, "GLD" stands for "Ground Logistics Division."

Rian Johnson smashed Kylo Ren's helmet himself by stomping on it.

Snoke's Praetorian Guard design was inspired by the emperor's royal guard, but they were made to be able to fight and move much more fluidly.

After the text crawl at the beginning of the movie, the camera tilts downward. This is the 7th of the 8 movies to do this. Only Star Wars: Episode II - Angriff der Klonkrieger (2002) does not tilt down, but rather tilts upwards.

Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd has a role as a lieutenant and is seen on screen many times throughout the movie.

Maz played a much larger role in early drafts of the script, but as the story got bigger it made more sense to give more beats to the main characters.

Every movie in the saga has a slightly different take on the opening fanfare. It's recorded and mixed specifically for each film's crawl.

When Prince William and Prince Harry visited the set of the film, they were escorted on a VIP tour of Pinewood Studios by Daisy Ridley.

All of the flashbacks were shot in one day.

C3P0's servo sound effects are that of his Episode IV: A New Hope's sound effects, different from the later films which are pitched higher.

Snoke's throne room was Rian Johnson's favorite set. It was completely practical, with the exception of Snoke himself.

The fourth Star Wars film to be released in IMAX, being the second film in the franchise to be filmed partially in the format with more IMAX footage than The Force Awakens, but unlike the predecessor, the footage is cropped at the 2.39:1 aspect ratio.

Carrie Fisher credited Miguel Ferrer for preparing her for her original audition for the role of Leia. Ferrer later became known for playing Agent Albert Rosenfeld in Das Geheimnis von Twin Peaks (1990). Like Fisher, Ferrer ended up returning to that role decades later in Twin Peaks (2017), but also died before its premiere. Laura Dern appears in both Twin Peaks and The Last Jedi.

During filming, John Boyega went into a strict workout and diet regime. One day, when he was hungry, he went to Carrie Fisher's trailer. When he told her that he was sick of eating healthy, she offered him chocolate bars and candy she had stashed inside her fridge. Since then, he occasionally went to her trailer whenever he wanted a "cheat day" from his diet. He later said "I failed my diet because Carrie Fisher told me to. And it felt great".

The title of this film, "The Last Jedi," was revealed on January 23, 2017. The phrase appears in the opening crawl of "The Force Awakens," making this the first time the title of a Star Wars film appeared in an opening crawl.

The water leaking from Finn's medical suit was part practical and part visual effects.

The interior of the tree was a full 360-degree set at Pinewood.

The opening crawl was the very first thing Writer/Director Rian Johnson started writing. It was not finalized until the last days of post-production.

Second unit photography began during pre-production at Skellig Michael in Ireland on September 14, 2015, due to the difficulties of filming at that location during other seasons. It would have lasted four days, but filming was canceled for the first day due to poor weather and rough conditions.

Features the first Star Wars soundtrack to incorporate songs from outside the Star Wars universe: "Aquarela do Brasil," better known in English as "Brazil," by Ary Barroso, and "The Long Goodbye," by John Williams and Johnny Mercer. "The Long Goodbye" was the title song from the Robert Altman film, which was written by Leigh Brackett, who wrote the original draft of the screenplay for Das Imperium schlägt zurück (1980). (In the first Star Wars film, George Lucas used "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller as a temporary track during the Mos Eisley Cantina scene, which John Williams reworked to the familiar "Cantina Band" theme.)

While visiting Leia Organa in the sick bay, Finn and C-3PO are standing on apple boxes to fit them in the frame behind Poe.

Although plenty of his original sound effects are used, this is the first main Star Wars film where Ben Burtt is not credited as Supervising Sound Designer/Sound Editor. Series veteran Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce take over these duties.

Most of the stunt doubles, particularly for the principal characters, have also worked on the Game of Thrones - Das Lied von Eis und Feuer (2011).

The only non-Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Original Score.

Third consecutive official live-action Star Wars film (counting Star Wars: Rogue One (2016)) to film in Iceland.

The scene where Finn meets Rose was rewritten during production. Originally, Rose was very suspicious of Finn. Kelly Marie Tran's energy convinced Rian Johnson that the scene would be better if Rose admired Finn.

A special small digital camera with a smaller sensor was used to capture the depth of field on the close-up of Paige's eye after she falls.

Scenes that required shooting at Skellig Michael in Ireland were filmed during pre-production in September 2015.

During the Force-connections between Kylo Ren and Rey, all of the sound was dropped out except for their voices, to isolate them.

With returning characters Leia, Rey, Phasma, Maz Kanata, and Lieutenant Connix, as well as newcomers Rose, Holdo, Paige, Tallie, and Commander D'Arcy, this movie features more female characters than the original Star Wars trilogy, in which the only notable female characters are Leia, Aunt Beru, and Mon Mothma.

Rian Johnson's hand is used as an insert when Luke Skywalker pulls the dice off the Millennium Falcon.

Post-production for the film was officially completed in late September 2017.

The exterior of the Jedi tree set was built on a vehicle test course at Longcross Studios.

The mirror cave was one of the earliest images that Rian Johnson had when he first landed the project.

Hit $45 million in the opening night.

The sequence in the mirror cave came about after multiple conversations with Force Awakens Production Designer Rick Carter about some of the most important aspects of Rey's character.

Rose and DJ were written to serve as the angel and devil on Finn's shoulders throughout the story.

Between Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015) and Star Wars - Episode VIII: Die letzten Jedi (2017), Daisy Ridley had been in talks to succeed Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the reboot Tomb Raider (2018) but the role went to Alicia Vikander.

The German dub continues the "I have a bad feeling about this" tradition by translating the line "Han was... Han about it" with "Han had a... bad feeling about this".

The bridge of the Resistance ship doubled as a rehearsal space for Rian Johnson and cast after a day of shooting.

In January 2016, production of Episode VIII was delayed until February 2016, due to script rewrites. Additionally, filming was potentially in danger of being delayed further due to an upcoming strike between the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television and the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union.

Rian Johnson is a superfan of Andy Serkis' role in the movie Topsy Turvy. While on set he would constantly quote Andy's lines from that movie.

The Jedi Village set was built on a cantilevered platform over the edge of a cliff in southern Ireland called Sybil Head.

The first thing Rian Johnson had to figure out was why Luke Skywalker was on the island.

The first middle installment of a Star Wars trilogy to include a proper space battle. Das Imperium schlägt zurück (1980) only has a few scenes of a Star Destroyer chasing the Millennium Falcon, and Star Wars: Episode II - Angriff der Klonkrieger (2002) only has a dogfight between Jango Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

There is a scene were Kylo Ren's costume is being ironed by an ironing robot, and the iron is shown from below blowing steam as if it were a spaceship coming in for a landing. The spaceship made from an iron also appears in Hardware Wars, which itself was a spoof of the original Star Wars.

Kelly Marie Tran was overwhelmed by the crowd at the premiere and started to cry in gratitude to her role in the movie. Daisy Ridley comforted her during this.

When Poe Dameron says the line, "If they move...stun 'em", this may be a direct homage to Sam Peckinpah's classic 1969 western The Wild Bunch. William Holden's character Pike famously says, "If they move, kill 'em."

Star Wars - Episode VIII: Die letzten Jedi (2017) received limited 15/70mm IMAX screenings in the UK and USA. It's the third time Disney's done this for the Star Wars franchise thus far: it happened with Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015) originally, and then Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) (although the latter was shot on Arri Alexas employing 65mm lenses).

After filming ended, the wrap party was held in an Irish pub. Daisy Ridley, who had worked as a bartender in London before her acting career started, stood behind the counter and served the cast and crew.

Tom Hardy, who makes a cameo appearance as a storm trooper (which was deleted in the final cut and appears in the DVD version), made one of his earliest film appearances in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). He also appeared in Black Hawk Down (2001) with Ewan McGregor. He and Mark Hamill have also both appeared in the Batman franchise. Hardy played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), while Hamill voiced the Joker in the animated series.

Sara Heller, who appears as one of the stable kids, had her first film role as Domhnall Gleeson's daughter, Posy (at age 5), in the film Alles eine Frage der Zeit (2013).

This is the eighth Star Wars film to be scored by John Williams.

One of the pilots walking down the ramp of the Resistance transport is Rian Johnson's little brother.

The Caretakers on the temple island on Ahch-To are called The Lanai and are the native inhabitants.

Whilst the film was in production. Disney announced the 2nd Star Wars anthology film - Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and that it would be released between Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: Episode IX (2019). Taking place years before Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (2017), the film follows a young Han Solo, revealing how he first meets Chewbacca and becomes captain of the Milennium Falcon. Alden Ehrenriech succeeds Harrison Ford as Han Solo, while Donald Glover has been cast as young Lando Calrissian. Peter Mayhew's stunt double Joonas Suotoma returns as Chewbacca. Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson and Thandie Newton are announced to co-star. Christopher Miller and Phil Lord were hired to direct, but have been fired and replaced by Ron Howard.

The voice of the alien on the Canto Bight yacht is Rian Johnson's.

The Fathier chase was filmed over the final two weeks of principal photography.

One of the two men in the cell behind Finn and Rose is Rian Johnson's cousin, film composer Nathan Johnson.

This is the only sequel in a Star Wars trilogy to not have a four word subtitle (ex. Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) while the first in each trilogy have three word subtitles (ex. The Phantom Menace, A New Hope, The Force Awakens) thus breaking tradition.

The first teaser trailer was released on April 14, 2017.

The novelization begins with a dream sequence in which Luke imagines how his life would be had he not left with Ben. In this scenario (reminiscent of the novel and movie The Last Temptation Of Christ) Luke is married to Camie, who appears in the deleted scenes with Biggs from A New Hope, living a contented life as a client farmer under the Empire. Among other details is the fact that the Empire has apparently exterminated the Tusken Raiders.

Laura Dern has starred as Sandy Williams in David Lynch's classic thriller Blue Velvet: Verbotene Blicke (1986). David Lynch also directed Dune - Der Wüstenplanet (1984) based on the science fiction fantasy novel by Frank Herbert. It had been acknowledged and speculated that Dune was one of George Lucas's influences behind the Star Wars saga and David Lynch had turned down the offer to direct Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (1983) to direct Dune.

Daisy Ridley turned down the role of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2018) due to her commitment to Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). In Tomb Raider (2018) Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) travels to a mythical island off the coast of Japan to find her missing father Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West). In this film, Rey (Daisy Ridley) arrives on the Temple island on Ahch-To to find Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill).

Carrie Fisher and Laura Dern appear together in this film. The original Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture, but lost to Annie Hall, which featured an ex-boyfriend of each actress: Paul Simon and Jeff Goldblum.

Rian Johnson is a close follower of actor Adrian Edmondson's career. Every day on set he was trying not to quote lines from his favorite roles.

Released 30 years after Mel Brooks's classic Star Wars comedy spoof Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987) and the Australian sci-fi film Wächter der Zukunft (1987) which Carrie Fisher starred in as the character Petra.

As well as Star Wars: Episode VII - Das Erwachen der Macht (2015), and despite his prominent role in the original trilogy (episodes V and VI) Lando Calrissian (played by Billy Dee Williams) never is mentioned throughout the movie.

Released two days before Rian Johnson's birthday.

Laura Dern & Justin Theroux previously appeared in Inland Empire (2006) by David Lynch who was asked to direct Das Imperium schlägt zurück (1980) but turned it down.

One of the extras in the trenches on Crait, was Gary Barlow from the pop group Take That

Joseph Gordon-Levitt appeared in Third Rock from the Sun with John Lithgow. Lithgow voiced Yoda in the NPR adaptations of the original trilogy.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was produced by Ram Bergman. He also produced Natalie Portman's directional debut Eine Geschichte von Liebe und Finsternis (2015). Portman played Padme Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I - Die dunkle Bedrohung (1999), Star Wars: Episode II - Angriff der Klonkrieger (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Die Rache der Sith (2005).

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: He plays Slowen Lo, who appears at the casino on Canto Bight.

Justin Theroux: As the Master Codebreaker.

Edgar Wright: He plays a Resistance member.

Warwick Davis: As Wodibin, an alien that appears in the casino on Canto Bight.

Michaela Coel: She plays a resistance monitor.

Lily Cole: The woman next to the Master Codebreaker.

Kate Dickie: as a First Order monitor.