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

2. Picking Up Where We Left Off

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Whether it's one year or almost two decades, time has jumped forward between every single Star Wars episode so far (e.g. about 10 years between I and II, around 19 years between III and IV, three years between IV and V, and 30 years from VI to VII).

The Last Jedi, then, will be the first movie to break from this tradition, and start exactly where the previous movie left off: with Rey and Luke meeting atop one of the islands of Ahch-To. Of the decision, Johnson said:

"I don't want to skip ahead two years. I want to see the very next moment of what happens."

It's a smart move. The meeting of the pair is a major event, and yet it's the very final moment of The Force Awakens, with no dialogue. We need to see the first words they say to each other, how they react, and thankfully that's what we're gonna get.

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