Det finns många vilda teorier om krigshetsaren Snokes bakgrund på nätet, men räkna inte med att få särskilt många svar i The Last Jedi. Regissören Rian Johnson meddelar nämligen att det inte riktigt ligger i hans intresse att måla upp Snokes livshistoria:
"We got the whole story of Palpatine's rise to power in the prequels, but in the original films he's exactly what he needs to be, which is just 'The Emperor.' He's a dark force: the scary thing behind the thing. That was entirely how I approached Snoke. I wasn't interested in explaining where he came from or telling his history, except where it serves this story"
The Force Awakens sade inte heller mer om karaktärerna än vad som behövdes, vilket verkar vara riktningen uppföljaren också tar. Johnson öppnade sig däremot lite om mer om Kylo Rens inre konflikt i uppföljaren:
"Star Wars boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood. That's the heart of these films and Rey is most obviously the one that hangs on. But it's also Kylo. In the originals you project entirely onto Luke, while Vader is the scary other — he's the minotaur. The fascinating thing about Kylo and Rey is that they're two sides of something. We can all relate to Kylo: to that anger of being in the turmoil of adolescence and figuring out who he's going to be as a man; dealing with anger and wanting to separate from his family. He's not Vader — at least, he's not Vader yet — and that's something I really wanted to get into"
Till skillnad från prequeltrilogin, som avmystifierade mycket av Star Wars-världen, verkar det som att Johnsson har hittat ett fokus i sin berättelse. Vad exakt The Last Jedi handlar om är dock fortfarande oklart och förhoppningsvis dyker det snart upp en matig trailer att dissekera fram till världspremiären...
Andy Serkis gestaltar den digitala New Order-ledaren Snoke
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