It's official: Star Wars Episode VIII has a title -- and mom sex videosunlike with Episode VII, we didn't have to suffer through weeks of widespread fake title rumors on movie blogs before we got it. (Anyone remember 'The Ancient Fear'?)
The upcoming movie, which picks up at the very moment where The Force Awakensleft off, is called The Last Jedi, Lucasfilm announced Monday. Immediately, a shockwave of speculation rippled through the galaxy of Star Wars fandom.
Because as simple as that three-word title is, it also contains more potential meaning than you can possibly imagine.
SEE ALSO: Drop everything: 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' has a titleThe first in a long line of questions: Is it the last Jedi singular, or the last Jedi plural? (If you thought the plural of Jedi was "Jedis", then you must unlearn what you have learned.)
We went to Lucasfilm to ask which one it is, and received an enigmatic message. "Trust your doubt," said a source close to the Force.
In case you didn't realize it before, this is a franchise that thrives on mystery.
If the title is singular, then you might well assume that The Last Jedirefers to Luke Skywalker. When Rey finds and confronts him at the end of The Force Awakens, Luke does appear to be the last Jedi Knight in the galaxy. (In fact, he's specifically called the last Jedi in the opening crawl.)
Luke was training more Jedi, but they were apparently wiped out. Here's what Han Solo told Rey and Finn when he meets them in The Force Awakens:
He was training a new generation of Jedi. One boy, an apprentice, turned against him, destroyed it all. Luke felt responsible ... He walked away from everything.
Later, when Rey encounters Luke's lightsaber and has her Force vision, she sees the Knights of Ren (of which Kylo Ren is a member) standing over piles of dead bodies.
This has led many fans to assume that the "boy" Han refers to is his own son, and that the Knights of Ren massacred the "new generation of Jedi." That supposition, however, remains unconfirmed -- like a lot of things in The Force Awakens, Rey's Force vision is intended to provoke more questions.
Another reason to assume the "last Jedi" refers to Luke? The title appears to be an echo of Yoda's dying words, way back in Return of the Jedi. Here, get your Kleenex ready:
"Luke, when gone am I," the little green guy said, "the last of the Jedi will you be." Of course, if Lucasfilm had intended a direct quote, the new movie would be called "Last of the Jedi" instead -- a subtle but important distinction.
It's also worth noting that Yoda immediately pivots to the subject of training more Jedi: "Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned, Luke."
We don't know much about The Last Jedi, but we do know it's the first Star Wars movie ever to open precisely where the previous one left off. (If you don't count A New Hope, that is, which retroactively opens exactly where Rogue Oneleft off ... chronology gets complicated in the Star Wars galaxy.)
How do we know this? Because of the production announcement video released last year, which shows director Rian Johnson reshooting the exact same scene that his predecessor J.J. Abrams already shot: Rey offering Luke his old lightsaber.
The torch is being passed here in more ways than one: from episode to episode, from Abrams to Johnson, from Luke to Rey.
Is Rey the last Jedi of the title, then? Quite possibly.
Whatever else Daisy Ridley's character is, she is clearly the most Force-sensitive soul the galaxy far, far away has seen in a long, long time; it would be madness if Luke didn't get down to business and train her as soon as possible.
You might well read that into the photo Mark Hamill posted for Daisy Ridley's birthday during the shooting of The Last Jedilast year -- a fun bit of horseplay, to be sure, but also a clear reference to Yoda training Luke.
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The title, then, could refer to Luke andRey. Or it could mean that Luke Skywalker dies in Episode VIII, leaving Rey alone as the last Jedi.
For his part, Mark Hamill has already hinted that he's returning for Episode IX, in this tweet:
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But that doesn't mean Luke is safe. After all, there's more than one way for a Jedi to show up in a movie: just ask Alec Guinness. (Or rather, just ask his Force ghost.)
But what if Rey doesn't want to be trained? Or Luke decides it's too dangerous, much as Yoda did with him until Obi-Wan talked him out of it?
What if the title is meant to signal that the grand order of Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy for a thousand generations, is no more?
Well, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing -- or out of step for the franchise.
Lucasfilm has spent the last two decades telling us the Jedi didn't quite live up to their hype (the prequel movies showed them to be arrogant, aloof, and easy marks for the Sith), and that you don't have to be a Jedi to be a Force user.
This was most clearly flagged in Rogue One, where we meet the blind warrior monk Chirrut Imwe (played by Donnie Yen). Chirrut and his companion Baze Malbus are Guardians of the Temple of the Whills -- Force worshippers who have nothing to do with the Jedi.
Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Clone Warsand Star Wars: Rebelscartoons have been driving this point home too. A character named Ahsoka Tano walked away from the Jedi order and did pretty well for herself in the Rebel Alliance regardless.
Most recently we've been introduced to a character called Bendu, voiced by legendary Doctor Whostar Tom Baker, who claims to sit at the dead center between the light side and the dark side of the Force.
This could all have been groundwork to prepare us for the end of the Jedi -- as could the fact that Luke went off to find the "first Jedi temple," according to Han.
Maybe he didn't go to help kickstart this doomed and star-crossed Order. Maybe he went to say goodbye.
In the semiotics of this myth-filled franchise, it is certainly no accident that The Last Jediwas revealed within a red Star Wars logo.
Red, of course, is the color of a Sith's lightsaber; it also suggests that you should have a bad feeling about this. When the Clone Warscartoon began with a red logo, it signified that Darth Maul was about to show up.
Two other Star Wars movies had red logos -- and they happened to be the movies that wiped out the Sith and the Jedi, respectively.
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Putting a red-colored logo in the middleepisode of a trilogy suggests that Lucasfilm and Johnson are trying for something different here. The deck of cards that is traditional Star Wars memes is being shuffled in a new and interesting way.
File under "this probably doesn't mean anything." But as Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group first pointed out, The Last Jediwas also the cover line from an old Star Wars comic.
And the Jedi in question wasn't Luke.
Published in July 1981, "The Last Jedi" features a character called Jedidiah -- a Force-sensitive but brain-damaged old man who once dreamed of becoming a Jedi. So much so that he nicknames himself "Jedi."
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Spoiler alert: Jedidiah saves Luke's life by throwing himself in front of a blaster. For which sacrifice, Luke delivers this eulogy:
I thought you were just a crazy old man. But I was wrong. Yours was the soul of a true Jedi Knight … the last Jedi. I pray that I meet death as valiantly as you did. May the Force be with you, Jedi … forever.
The old Marvel Star Wars comics aren't even close to being canon these days, and you certainly shouldn't expect Jedidiah to show up in Episode VIII.
But it is a timely reminder that Star Wars likes to throw curveballs -- and The Last Jedicould end up referring to someone else (singular or plural) entirely. Or it could be a deliberate reference to Luke meeting his death valiantly.
Whichever it is, we'll find out on December 15, 2017, when The Last Jedireleases worldwide.
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