Star Wars: Episode VIII Will Be Called The Last Jedi
So, maybe don't get too attached to Luke, yeah?
Good news Star Wars fans, we can now all stop calling it Star Wars: Episode VIII. An announcement has just been made confirming that the eighth mainline Star Wars film will be called The Last Jedi, following in the auspicious footsteps of The Last Of The Mohicans, The Last Temptation Of Christ and The Last Airbender. Maybe not that last one.
Obviously there are two trains of thought here: either it refers to Luke, again getting the titular treatment in Return Of The Jedi or to Rey (which would presumably spell disaster for Luke, unless "last" literally just means the last one to join the Order, which would be pretty rubbish, frankly).
It probably does actually mean Luke Skywalker actually, since he has already been called "the last Jedi" before - in the crawl for The Force Awakens...
That seemingly confirms that the film will be all about Luke, which even the most slow-witted of fans could have already predicted, given the end of The Force Awakens. We can probably expect him to be not only the subject of Rey's attention but also of the Empire's, as they continue to hunt him down.
And of course, there is a very real chance that he will follow his on-screen "mirror" and die like Obi Wan-Kenobi once he's passed on just enough of his wisdom for Rey to succeed as a Jedi in the third film. There is after all something rather poetic about the idea of the Last Jedi title being passed on to a new "chosen one".
As some eagle-eyed fans have already pointed out, it's a familiar title for anyone who used to like the extended universe content before Disney fired it off into space...
That comic issue saw Luke and Leia heading to a jungle planet where they discover an alien who was once ear-marked to become a Jedi, called Jedidiah, whose nickname is Jedi. Subtle, it is not. Expecting much from the page to hit the screen is pretty silly, really, but it exists all the same.
Anyway, it's a cool title.