The Last Jedistill has some things left to reveal toStar Warsfans.
I mean, every single one of them was not cut because it didnt work.
It was cut because the movie as a whole was better without it, Johnson tells us.
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Well also explore that mysterious Third Lesson Luke never got to deliver to Rey.
In another deleted scene fromThe Last Jedi, Finn is struggling with whether to abandon the Resistance.
I was looking for any opportunity I could to emotionally connect those two, the director says.
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I thought it was a really sweet little scene.
I loved John Boyegas performance in it.
Once we realized we could get away without it, it was something that just naturally fell away.
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It also shows the mischievous and somewhat unsettling personality of BB-8.
Little sneak, Johnson says.
Youve got to watch what youre saying around BB-8.
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Its all on the record.
The big loss was leaving out a good joke.
I miss Johns line, Thats kind of creepy you recorded that.
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Those are a warring tribe, Skywalker tells her, here to raid the village.
He watches impassively while Rey is itching to unleash her lightsaber.
Would Rey still be here when that happened?
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The Jedi would let this play out, he tells her.
They would choose not to be involved, out of fear of making it worse.
So does she really want to be a Jedi?
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Rey scrambles down the mountain and ignites the blue as she sprints across the shoreline.
(This was a shot featured in the trailer, even though it was removed from the film.)
Luke is calling out to her, but shes done listening to him.
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If anything, she learns she cant fully trust him anymore.
Originally it was just a breaking point for her.
Okay, hes gone too far, Johnson says.
Johnson thought this division would be necessary to drive Rey toward Kylo Ren in their Force vision conversations.
Removing the raiders scene leads to a very different set-up, one that perhaps stings Luke even more.
As for that unspoken third lesson…?
In other words, this may be J.J. Abrams problem now.
Not problem, but possibility, Johnson clarifies.
There are no problems, theres only potential.
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Luke In Mourning
Wheres Han?
As he grieves, the film cuts to Leia Organa in a similar pose, far away.
It was a really lovely moment.
I was very sorry to lose it.
I think its a beautiful performance from Mark Hamill, Johnson says.
(There isnt a shot from this new scene, but heres a behind-the-scenes image.)
Hes justsurehe knows Finn from somewhere.
Sneaking through the mega-destroyer, theres some really fun stuff in there, Johnson tells EW.
It just made me laugh every time I saw it.
The scene does reveal an interesting bit of lore, however.
The tension is broken by the fact that he doesnt really know the story of what happened with Finn.
In fact, shes so tough that she had to die twice in this sequence.
The version in the final movie is the result of reshoots.
(We dont have an image from the deleted version, but heres one from the finished sequence.)
Originally, Johnson had a different downfall for the chrome Stormtrooper.
Thats when they begin talking.
The other Stormtroopers shuffle uneasily.
Theyre not sure its healthy to know any of this.
Phasma is showing something through the gash in her half-destroyed mask: fear.
Why did he change it?
Entirely pacing, Johnson says.
It just took too long to play out.
But we needed a much more condensed version of that scene, where essentially its the same outcome.
Only in the original version, it seemed much more definite that Phasma was finished forever.
Now, we dont quite know.
As Luke tells Leia, No one is ever really gone.
