Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Everything We Know So Far

3. Everyone Gets Challenged

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While new characters will be introduced here - as mentioned, the mysterious roles played by Tran, Dern, and del Toro - the focus will be on the franchise stalwarts and the heroes introduced in The Force Awakens.

That was not always the case, with an initial draft putting more onus on the new faces. However, the movie underwent an extensive rewrite, putting Rey, Finn, and Poe in the spotlight again (and given how great they were, that's definitely not a bad thing).

Speaking with USA Today, Johnson said that he wants to find out more about them, and really push them in different ways:

"I wanted to know more about each of them, and that doesn’t just mean information or backstory. Figure out what’s the most difficult thing each of them could be challenged with now — let’s throw that at them and dig into what really makes them tick by seeing how they handle that."
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