Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

After reading the script for the film, Mark Hamill told writer/director Rian Johnson, "I pretty much fundamentally disagree with every choice you've made for this character [Luke Skywalker]. Now having said that, I have gotten it off my chest, and my job now is to take what you've created and do my best to realize your vision." Despite the divisive response among audiences Cinemascore audiences rated it with the same score as The Force Awakens and more positively than Rise of Skywalker. While critics gave it a fresh aproval agregate score on both, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Hamill later said in a statement that he had maintained respect for Johnson as well as Episode VII and IX director J.J. Abrams (although he only follows Rian Johnson on Twitter). Daisy Ridley and John Boyega have both talked about in interviews how their initial reaction after reading the script for the first time was trying to get in contact with Johnson as soon as possible because they couldn't wrap their head around the direction he was going. Boyega later said that his character was treated better on the Episode IX: Duel of the Fates unmade script by Collin Trevorow that J.J. Abrams discarded, due to it giving him a plotline were Finn led a stormtrooper mutiny like the one on a deleted scene that Rian Johnson filmed for The Last Jedi, were Finn makes stormtroopers revolt against Captain Phasma. Ridley stated Jhonson shot what he wrote while Abrams was constantly changing the script, Abrams co-writter Chris Terrio said the Rise of Skywalker script was rewritten every day.

When Poe gets permission to leave the bridge and runs towards the X-Wing bay, several pilots on the bridge follow him, including the alien C'ai Threnalli. However, immediately after we see C'ai run out of frame, there is a reaction shot of Finn with C'ai still standing at a console in the background.

In loving memory of our princess, Carrie Fisher.

The home video releases (both physical and digital) include a version with an isolated score. It is accessible through the Movies Anywhere app.

Edited into If Star Wars Wasn't Serious (2014)