10 Movie Sequels That Started In Surprising Ways

7. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

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Clearly one of the most divisive entries in the greater Star Wars franchise, Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi unarguably had a rather surprising opening.

For so much of The Force Awakens, Rey had been on a quest to track down one of the most legendary of Jedi Masters, the one and only Luke Skywalker. When Daisy Ridley's character did find Luke, that meeting lasted for approximately 10 seconds before The Force Awakens came to an abrupt halt.

As such, anticipation was high to see Luke and Rey properly share the screen together in The Last Jedi, with the iconic face of the Original Trilogy getting to take the rookie under his sage, wise wing. In a left-field move, though, this absolutely wasn't the case when Episode VIII starts up.

Once a brief space fight sequence was out of the way, The Last Jedi picks things up exactly where it left off with Luke and Rey, with the relative newcomer handing Skywalker his own lightsaber over to him as a way to break the ice, to show her intentions, and to sit under the learning tree of Master Luke.

Catching near-enough everybody off-guard, Skywalker simply tosses the lightsaber over his shoulder, makes it clear he has zero interest in training Rey, and soon ends up taking a grizzled, grumpy swig of milk from the teat of a thala-siren.

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