I finally spotted her upper body. Some are saying it might be Poe? I say Rey, though, due to size. Then again they’re not far apart in height…
For all we know it’s just a BTS shot out of costume and John could be talking to JJ. JJ wasn’t an attention whore like RJ who put his face on one of the discs of TLJ.
I’m just happy JJ made it JUST Finn/John. I love Rey and Daisy, but Finn is discredited like hell! JJ was subtly letting people know that John/Finn is a big deal in Star Wars.
What a giant middle finger to RJ, putting that VII IX engraving in front while centering Finn in the background.
By the way I saw coverage of this photo saying Chewie is on the far left flanked by Finn who writes like that asdk it’s clear FINN is in the middle flanked by chewie and maybe-Rey?
The photo is probably bts in that JJ isn’t shooting anything in that moment, so it’s John and whoever is in that chair goofing between takes.
When that is said absolutely no way that John is wearing what he’s wearing of his own free will. Europe is melting, a third of this continent is on fire right now and I mean that quite literally, and even the parts that isn’t is struggling with the one of the worst heatwaves we’ve ever had. The UK just got out of a several week long spell of temperatures between 30-35C which is ten degrees higher than usual for this time of year.
Yeah the temperature has gone a bit down now, but only by 5 or so degrees. And due to the months long heatwave everything is so overheated at this point that the lower temperature doesn’t really mean cooler as much as it means “at least things aren’t getting hotter”.
You might have been able to convince me if John had just been wearing a long sleeved shirt. It’s possible that the studio has AC and is cool inside, though most of us would still be running around in t-shirts and just welcome the chance to be cool for once.
But the puffy vest?
Yeah, no. No way John would wear anything padded in this heat of his own volition.
John 😭 now I REALLY hope that’s just one of his outfits and he won’t be in that outfit the whole time. And Joonas Suotamo? Chewie can’t collapse from heat stroke, that is so not fitting for a badass warrior! 😲
This originally started out as a reblog @thelastjedicritical reblog about continuity and it evolved into this.
I’ve been thinking a lot about if JJ will softly retcon TLJ’s consequences, or what little and few consequences it had.
Considering Force projection have now been brought into the new canon, force teleportation for Luke’s survival and Souls transferring or surviving after the body was destroyed for Snoke’s survival isn’t that far fetched. Both powers existed during the Old Republic era and could be brought into the new canon like how RJ pulled force projection from an old, out of date Legends force power book.
It all just depends on where JJ and Star Wars is going to go after IX.
If IX truly is the ending of everything, then Luke, or at least Snoke, should stay dead. If Star Wars is going to be like the old EU and the MCU, and start telling stand alone stories more, than bringing Luke back as the Grand Jedi Master and Snoke back as a Lager Scope Villain would be a good idea for the series as a whole.
Luke could become the big good of the franchise and stay on Coruscant helping serve the New Republic, which Leia would be named the Chancellor of, while he also rebuilds the New Jedi Order. That way both Luke and Leia can remain in the story, while not getting involved with the many adventures to come in Star Wars outside of cameos and novels. Beyond that, unless where doing a 10 year time skip, Rey isn’t nearly as strong or even knowledgeable about the politics of the galaxy or Jedi to start a new order. I mean there always Ahsoka too…cough, cough.
Even if you agree with Snoke’s death, no one can argue the fact that he was an intimidating villain who seemed a lot stronger than any other character we’ve seen. He could be like the Thanos of Star Wars. Darth Neggings/Benny Boy, and even Hux work as an Antagonists, but not greater scope villains. Snoke did.
I know some would disagree with me, but turning the Star Wars saga into stand alone movies like Marvel would be a better move on the chessboard. We already have Rogue One and there’s a Boba Fett movie coming. I think an anthology series approach would serve Lucasfilms and the fans better.
A Knights of Ren movie with Kylo.
A Mandalorian movie with Finn.
A Black Squadron movie with Poe.
A Jedi Order movie with Rey.
Other standalone movies set in different eras Like an Ahsoka movie, Clone Commandos, Kotor. Then they can all converge in bigger movies together like the Avengers.
I think a major problem Lucasfilms is having with these new movies is that they are trying to emulate the old trilogies formats while also trying to do new stuff like Marvel, and it’s not working.
Just ditch the trilogy format all together and start focusing on the characters and their stories.
If marvel can take a bunch of B rank comic book heroes that only comic fans knew about and turn them into literal box office juggernaut hits and beloved characters, than Lucasfilms can do it for Star Wars.
Sharing screen time like the way they have been doing it guarantees that all these characters will never actually get the character development they deserve without one of them taking it from another. The Dark Knight, Winter Soldier, Logan, Black Panther, they had such great character development for their characters because there wasn’t a million characters to focus on.
In TLJ we had to follow Rey, Finn, Kylo, and Poe, and all of their character arcs. Then there were characters underdeveloped like Rose, Holdo, Luke, Leia, Snoke, Hux, and Phasma. As well as characters completely ignored or not even present like Ackbar, Chewie, R2, Lando, Wedge and the Knights of Ren. And finally we had plot threads entirely dropped like Finn’s origins, Rey’s parents, Snoke’s backstory, Poe’s father and his insecurities, Leia’s family relationships, Luke’s 30 year history since ROTJ, Hux’s relationship with Rae Sloane and his father, Rae Sloane herself, Phasma’s corrupt dealings, the New Republic politics and First Order’s history of what actually happened in the unknown regions of space.
If anyone thinks we’re gonna get all of this settled in one movie, then that shit is either going to be 8 hours long or your high off death sticks.
Lucasfilms should ditch the trilogy format, end this whole Skywalker format and just start making stand-alone movies like Marvel and DC, just please no Joss Whedon.
Lucasfilms is already trying to subtly be like Marvel anyway, spinoffs planned, multiple new projects being produced by different directors… All I’m suggesting is that they drop the formalities and just started doing standalone movies now.
The Anthology approach for marvel isn’t just working either, it’s getting better. Their Movies have gone from all being copy and past generic movies to films to Hiest movies, war movies, action comedy movies, westerners, horror, and dramatic family epics. Meanwhile Star Wars is still trying to copy a format that ended with Revenge of the Sith.
Move on and start evolving. No good ever came from trying to copy the past. Good only comes when we learn and improve from the past.
I mean does anyone seriously believe Disney will stop milking the Star Wars money as long as it can make money?
They’ll ride this train till it burns beyond recognition. So the least they can do is rebrand it so it starts making more money than comic book movies. Back in 2016 Star Wars was king, now they’re just that tired old franchise with 2 racists (Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy) screwing things up.
Yeah the trilogy format has run its course and clearly it’s not what LF is actually doing. This isn’t George Lucas’s show anymore, for better and for worse, they need to do what they need for this new canon–and for those sweet profits, of course.
One fly (two flies?) in this ointment is that two of the biggest stars in the franchise, John and Daisy, have stated they won’t be returning after IX. They went as close to setting it in stone as anything can get in show biz, which I grant you isn’t that final and could be a negotiating tactic. It could also be, though, that these up and coming actors don’t want to be tied to the brand too strongly, especially given its current chaotic management. Either way LF will have to make the deal pretty sweet and run a HECK of a tighter ship if it wants to keep them for future projects and get anywhere near Marvel’s level.
That’s the possibility I’m preparing myself for, but it would be a bummer and I’m glad John, at least, has come out openly in support of Finnrey. No matter what happens canon-wise, we know that at least one of the people most closely involved saw the story and Finnrey shippers weren’t seeing things. And if the rumors are true and KK is on her way out, she wouldn’t have much creative input into IX and JJ would have no reason to be bound by her wishes.
…how does John in any way not read as a romantic lead? Who said that? D: Putting aside how handsome he is, his perfomance as Finn around Rey just screams adorable, slightly awkward rom-com. In Attack the Block you could slot him as the bad boy archetype. Just, what? DDD:
Though romance was not a big part of AtB his character was pretty heavily implied to be dating Tia, the hottest and cleverest girl in the movie played by the lovely Danielle Vitalis. His character in Imperial Dreams also had a beautifully understated romance with the mother of his son.
Also do I have to kill that dog to take its place because I s2g I’ll do it
Since we’re starting to come up to where we will start getting a lot of news as well as bogus leaks and misinformation about episode IX, I’m planning on keeping an ongoing list that I’ll periodically update of just literal facts about the movie that we know to help me mentally keep the legitimate news separated from possible bogus news. So this would include info. that’s been confirmed by multiple reliable sources and/or the cast themselves. No opinions, speculation or rumor just things that’s known about the movie for sure. I also probably won’t list just basic things that is pretty much common knowledge in the fandom, such as John Boyega will be in the movie or JJ is directing it since that kind of info. could get out of control pretty fast. And I’ll probably just stick to information that may be pertinent to the plot and characters. If anyone wants to make corrections or add to it please let me know and feel free to tag and/or send me something when news comes up.
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