For fans of Star Wars and the late, great Carrie Fisher, it looked like The Last Jedi was going to contain more sorrow than we could bear.
The Last Jedi is the last film Fisher shot before her untimely death in December — and Lucasfilm president Kathy Kennedy made it clear in April that Fisher would not be resurrected in any way for the sequel, still known only as Episode IX. Originally, she was intended for a large role in that later film.
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So did that mean General Leia Organa — to us, she's royalty — would be killed off somehow in The Last Jedi? Now at last we have an answer, if director Rian Johnson speaks true. Read more...
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