Part 6 of 8: Stories to read only AFTER seeing the movie.
Just the sound of Gwendoline Christies icy, electrified voice saying that name is like a dagger being unsheathed.
Heres writer-director Rian Johnson talking about what happens to the First Order commander.
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Finn nods: Rebel scum.
And then, much like Phasmas fighting spirit, the floor collapses beneath her.
We see the towering warrior plunge into a literal kind of hell.
Columns of flame rise up to consume her as she vanishes into the inferno.
Anyone who has readDelilah S. Dawsons backstory novelPhasmaknows this hardscrabble woman she is a survivor.
Who could survive this?
If Anyone Could …
As far as we know, Phasma is no more.
Phasma is the Kenny fromSouth Parkof this series, he joked.
Among those rooting for her return is Luke Skywalker himself.
I think shes got to survive, Mark Hamill said, offering up his own theory.
She falls through the flames and lands on a big pile of rubbish.
Another person who has a secret idea for how Phasma could come back is the actress herself.
Gwendoline has it all figured out how she wants to come back, said costume designer Michael Kaplan.
No ones ever really gone, Hamill added, repeating one of Lukes lines from the film.
Maybe its hard to kill someone who is already dead inside.
Why not show Phasmas full face?
It seemed like a really striking thing to just glimpse the humanity behind it, Johnson said.
Originally, we were like, Should it be kind of monstrous?
What should be behind there?
Just this perfect blue eye behind this metal monster.
I loved that image.
He felt there was something more disturbing in revealing beauty beneath that mask rather than ugliness.
We could finally get to see a face that truly resembles the monster within.
More post-screening insights (these are heavy spoilers, but if youve read this far…)
