Key mystery surrounding title of the next Star Wars film ‘The Last Jedi’ has just been solved

EVER since the title of the next Star Wars film was announced, fans have been speculating about what it means. The question may have just been answered.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in The Force Awakens. Picture: Lucasfilm Ltd

A KEY mystery surrounding the title of episode eight in the Star Wars franchise has just been solved.

Ever since the title The Last Jedi was announced last month, fans have been speculating as to whom it refers.

Is the last jedi Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who appeared oh-so-briefly in the final scene of The Force Awakens?

Or did the title refer to Daisy Ridley’s character Rey, who also appeared to use the Force during episode seven?

Gizmodo reports that the question has now been answered, thanks to the release of official film promotional material in Spanish, French and German, which shows clearly that the title references the plural form of the term “Jedi” rather than the singular.

So Luke and Rey might both be considered “the last Jedi” — along with any number of other characters, of course.

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Star Wars episode eight The Last Jedi opens worldwide on December 15.

Ridley and Hamill reprise their roles as Rey and Luke, while Benicio Del Toro and Laura Dern are also set to join the cast.

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Daisy Ridley as Rey and John Boyega as Finn in a scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Carrie Fisher’s untimely death on December 28 had prompted fears that her character Princess Leia would not appear in the new movie, but Disney executives confirmed that the actress had completed filming prior to her death.

Princess Leia, who was revealed as being Luke’s sister in Return of the Jedi, was also seen to be sensitive to the Force in The Empire Strikes Back, but was not herself a Jedi.

JJ Abrams, who directed The Force Awakens, revealed he had discussed the issue of whether Princess Leia was a Jedi with Fisher herself.

Carrie Fisher as Leia in The Force Awakens. Picture: Lucasfilm Ltd.

“It was a great question, and one that we talked about quite a bit,” Cinemablend quoted Abrams as saying. “Why did she not take advantage of this natural Force strength that this character had? And one of the answers was that it was simply a choice that she made, that her decision to run the Rebellion, and ultimately this Resistance, and consider herself a General, as opposed to a Jedi. It was simply a choice that she took.”

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