Episode VIII is due out in time for the Star Wars 40th anniversary.
Here’s what we know so far, plus a bit of speculation about its events.
NB: The following contains potential spoilers forStar Wars: The Force Awakens,and speculation aboutEpisode VIII.
In the middle act of a movie or a book or anything else, not much happens.
It sort of evolves the story, makes the plot more complicated.
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Episode VIIlands just one day after the 40th anniversary of the originalStar Warsrelease in 1977.
Inevitably, we dont know too much at all aboutEpisode VIIIs events.
These movies will all be so different, Kasdan said.
Rian Johnson is a friend of mine hes going to make some weird thin.
Star Wars is coming up, Del Toro saidlast September, we will see how that turns out.
Ehhh, the thing is, they dont let me talk too much about it.
Im like the villain… As yet, we havent heard confirmation of these casting reports.
Whatever the truth proves to be, we just like the idea of Luke Skywalker getting drunk on Guinness.
The craic is strong with this one.
Is she somehow related to Luke Skywalker?
What made Luke retreat to Ahch-To?
What happened events turned Kylo Ren into such a Vader-worshipping, bedroom-trashing nightmare?
Might we learn more about things like the Knights of Ren and Reys childhood, perhaps in flashback?
Maybe theyll turn up on a holographic recording or something.
The movies about a squadron of pilots who stage deadly daylight bombing raids over war-torn France and Germany.
Weve got to fight, and some of us have got to die.
Im not telling you not to be afraid.
But stop worrying about it, and yourselves.
Forget about going home.
Consider yourselves already dead.
In it, Foster describes the fateful moment where Rey has the chance to slay Kylo Ren.
The passage reads:
Kill him, a voice inside her head said.
It was amorphous, unidentifiable, raw.
Pure, vengeful emotion.
So easy, she told herself.
She recoiled from it.
From the Dark Side.
What does this have to do withEpisode VIII?
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
That inspired me to propose, for the first time, that Anakins ghost would come back.'
Could it be that Luke retreated from the wider galaxy because he was haunted by this duality?
The Force Awakens screenplay describes Kylo as being somehow weakened in the wake of Hans death.
Star Wars: Episode VIIIis out on the 26th May 2017.
