Disney has released a Behind the Scenes video for the Last Jedi, an emotional look at the next film, including clips of the late Carrie Fisher. Via the Guardian:
The Last Jedi panel at Disney’s D23 event in Anaheim this weekend added little to the picture, beyond confirming that John Boyega’s Finn is likely to fight Gwendoline Christie’s Captain Phasma at some point, and that Mark Hamill has clearly been told to say nothing if he can’t find anything nice to say about Johnson’s script. But the newly-released behind-the-scenes video that debuted does at least offer genuinely fresh footage from the production. Here’s what we found out after going through it with a fine tooth comb.
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Daisy Ridley, Boyega and Hamill take it in turns to hype up the freshness, originality and unexpectedness of Johnson’s script during the video. But might Carrie Fisher’s seemingly throwaway line – “it’s about family, and that’s what’s so powerful about it” – ultimately end up being more telling?
The original Star Wars trilogy and the prequels charted the Skywalker clan’s descent into infamy and back to redemption. But we don’t yet know whether the new films will continue with the same theme, or work to establish a new one. Does Fisher’s line hint that Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren – the last remaining Force-sensitive Skywalker scion, as far as we know – has his own path of redemption to follow?
Might other families begin to play a part? Some reckon Del Toro’s “DJ” might be Rey’s father, while Rose has a sister who’s a gunner in the Resistance. Then there’s Luke and Leia themselves: can we expect to see them reunited in The Last Jedi? If Johnson’s movie really is all about family, you’d assume that’s a given, especially as Hamill has moaned he didn’t get to see Han die.