The latest international trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi starts with the past, but offers something completely unseen to this point: a blink-and-you-miss-it first glimpse at Canto Bight, the new wretched hive of scum and villainy that will play an important part
According to the official Star Wars website, Canto Bight is "a casino city and playground for the galaxy's ultra-rich ... filled with casinos, racetracks, and other expensive distractions." (It's also the home to Benicio del Toro's new character.) Site says that it is located on the planet Cantonica, which can get alongside as the newest body for the Last Jedi to introduce
Opening with scenes from 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the new trailer essentially repeats the first domestic Last Jedi trailer, with one important addition at the 2:00 mark: wolves of some kind (seemingly not the Vultpex seen in early trailers) smashing through the windows Canto Bight, it seems, is not going to have a new movie
A long time ago, a grade-schooler got his spaceship He followed the assembly instructions as best he could, snapping on the cannons, the landing gear, the small interstellar-chess table. Soon enough, Rian Johnson was holding his own Millennium Falcon. "The first thing I did," he recalls, "was throw it across the room, to see how it will look flying." He grins "And it broke."
Johnson grew up, went to film school, made some good stuff, including the entertainingly twisted 2012 sci-fi drama Looper . He's almost 44 now, though his cherub cheeks and gentle manner make it easy to paint the kid he was (too easy, maybe - he's trying to grow back a goatee he shaved); Even his neatly pressed short-sleeve button-down in late October, he's sitting in an office suite inside Disney's Burbank studios that he's called home for many months, where a whiteboard declares, "We're working on Star Wars: The Last Jedi ( in case you forgot). "Johnson is the film's writer-director, which means he end up with the world's finest collection of toys, including a life-size Falcon set that he almost got it on tears." I shook up the box a little, "he says, the same grin with
