30 Awesome Reasons To Stay Alive In 2017
2. Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 15)
Though there's going to be an understandably bittersweet cloud hanging over the new Star Wars movie due to Carrie Fisher's untimely death, it'll be nevertheless joyous see the fully-fledged return of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) to the franchise, with Looper director Rian Johnson taking the reins.
Above all else, there's the hope that Episode VIII will be a little more ambitious than The Force Awakens, which was just too indebted to A New Hope and honestly felt rather lazy. Episode VIII needs to be its own adventure and branch out.
Also, hopefully Rey can just be a standalone character rather than related to anyone in the known Star Wars universe. The incest is too much!