Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 11 Major New Details Revealed By EW

1. Luke Thought Kylo Was The Chosen One

Aside from Rey's parentage, there's another big question to be answered on Ahch-To: Just why did Luke Skywalker, the great hero of the Original Trilogy, exile himself to such a dramatic extent? Johnson says:

"The very first step in the writing of this was figuring out why he’s on that island. We know that he is not a coward. He’s not just hiding because he’s scared. But we also know that he must know his friends are in danger. He must know the galaxy needs him. And he’s sitting on this island in the middle of nowhere. There had to be an answer. It had to be something where Luke Skywalker believes he’s doing the right thing – and the process of figuring out what that is and unpacking it is the journey for Rey.”

So what might be the reason? While we knew it was linked to Ben Solo and the Jedi Academy, it turns out that Ben's fall to the Dark Side was even bigger than initially thought, because of the sheer amount of faith Luke had in him, as Mark Hamill explains:

“[Luke] made a huge mistake in thinking that his nephew was the chosen one, so he invested everything he had in Kylo, much like Obi-Wan did with my character. And he is betrayed, with tragic consequences. Luke feels responsible for that. That’s the primary obstacle he has to rejoining the world and his place in the Jedi hierarchy, you know? It’s that guilt, that feeling that it’s his fault, that he didn’t detect the darkness in him until it was too late.”

That would go some way to explaining why Luke now feels it's time to end the Jedi. That there isn't a Chosen One in the sense once believed, and instead destroying the Jedi/Sith dichotomy is the only way to bring true balance to the Force. And that notion, of Luke Skywalker himself ending the Jedi Order, is something that stunned Hamill, with the actor saying:

"When I first read it, my jaw dropped. What would make someone that alienated from his original convictions? That’s not something that you can just make up in an afternoon, and I really struggled with this thing."

We learned from Vanity Fair that Hamill had fundamental disagreements with Johnson over the choices he made for the character, and it looks like this is the specific decision he was talking about.

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