hi my name is Lambros Minh and I wrote a
story this month for Vanity Fair about
star wars with amazing photos by Annie
Leibowitz and this is what I know about
Star Wars this is what I don't know and
it's a bunch of stuff I can't tell you
to write this article I spent time with
JJ Abrams at bad robot I also went to
Star Wars Celebration
in Chicago where I spent hours of
one-on-one time with most of the cast
members and also those are the major
figures behind the scenes here's what we
now know about the new movie we're gonna
learn more about the origin of the
first-order which is something that the
force awakens kind of skipped over we
are gonna go back in this movie and
explore how we kind of got into this
whole mess maybe the most important
relationship in the new trilogy is
between kylo Ren and Rey they are an
opposite size but there's a personal
connection between them and it's gonna
run deeper than we even thought it could
one thing fans have been waiting for a
long time is the appearance of the
Knights of Ren the Knights of Ren were
kind of a throwaway line in force
awakens they're finally gonna arrive in
Skywalker
I spoke to Anthony Daniels who plays
c-3po and he says that c-3po is gonna do
something in this movie that will
surprise us all
c-3po has a line that includes the
phrase common emblem Anthony Daniels
mentioned this because he had a lot of
trouble saying it on set we don't know
what that means but we do know c-3po
it's gonna say it although as I point on
the article they'll almost certainly
change it once we mention it Carrie
Fisher who plays Princess Leia
of course tragically passed away before
the filming of Skywalker but she's going
to be in the movie they found scenes
that they didn't use of her from force
awakens and put those scenes in the new
movie so not only is she gonna be in the
new movie but she'll actually have
scenes with her daughter who plays a
resistance lieutenant there are a few
new characters in the movie we know one
of them is named Zuri bliss she is
played by a Keri Russell
and we see her in the thief's quarter of
a planet called PG me may not be a nice
planet but it's definitely snow there's
also a planet called persona we know
that it was on the edge of the galaxy
and its inhabitants are called the aqui
aqui the footage of the sauna was shot
in Jordan in a place called Wadi Rum
which is extremely remote and is where
they shot Louis Arabia Richard II grant
is in the movie he'll be playing a
character named Allegiant general pride
he is in the first order so presumably
he is not a good guy there are fan
theories that maybe he could possibly be
general Hux his father but he's
definitely playing for the wrong team
there's also a character named Jana
played by Naomi Aki and she is riding an
animal called an oar back and that is
about all we know about her there's a
lot of fan theories about Jana
we know Luke Skywalker will be in this
movie we're not sure what forming he's
gonna take he could be a force ghost or
we may see him in a flashback we're not
sure but we do know that he's gonna be
there in the new movie it will provide
the climax to the literally millennia
long conflict between the Jedi Order on
the one hand and the Sith on the other
there's still a lot that we don't know
about the new movie starting with the
meaning of the title
who is the Skywalker that's gonna rise
it could be Rey we don't know who her
parents are she could be a Skywalker
when we meet Rey she is waiting for her
parents to come back then in last Jedi
kylo Ren says that they were just sort
of trash gatherers who abandoned her and
then died but kylo Ren is of course not
really a reliable narrator it's also
been suggested that Skywalker is not a
person but rather a new kind of order of
sort of force sensitive warriors who
will kind of rise up and come after the
Jedi another big question raised by the
teaser is Palpatine we hear him laugh in
the trailer
so we can assume that Palpatine is gonna
come back in some form I guess they
could flash all the way back to you know
springtime for Palpatine he was young
once people in Star Wars tend to be
related to each other that is kind of a
common trope so one theory is that Janna
is
Lando's daughter Lando is a charismatic
guy he has been knocking around the
universe for a long time it's entirely
possible that he has a kid or two out
there maybe Janna is one of them Abrams
mentioned while we were reporting this
article that the connection between kylo
Ren and Rey runs deeper than anybody
realizes it's entirely possible that
they could turn out to be brother and
sister in the new movie we're gonna
resolve that that's a good thing they
didn't make out it was touch-and-go for
a while there something I'm really
curious about is whether we're gonna see
more force users in this movie at this
point we're basically down to two kylo
Ren and Rey and broom boy it seems like
kind of the kind of throwaway Rian
Johnson would do and that JJ would be
like Ryan that is so stupid we're not
having broom boy in the movie then
should that broom boy turn out to go
like super wrong and be like a major SIF
that would be a good twist
I should have suggested that to JJ
another question that's sort of out
there on the Internet will we see Snoke
we never really learned that much about
Supreme Leader Snoke and and he did look
very dead the last time we saw him but
there's a lot of unanswered questions
around him so who knows he could turn up
another dangling thread is Chewbacca
Chewbacca is best buddy Han Solo got
killed by kylo Ren I think everybody is
wondering if he's kind of gonna get his
revenge and take out kylo Ren with a bow
caster it would be super satisfying if
Chewbacca got some kind of closure for
the trauma of losing Han Solo you have
to wonder what's gonna happen to the
Millennium Falcon at the end of movie
the Millennium Falcon at this point it's
almost a character everybody it's got so
much personality everybody so fond of it
it was originally Lando's
I feel as though Chewbacca probably has
some sense of ownership over it as well
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the answer to that is yes Star Wars
stuff is always super lockdown by Disney
but every once in a while when you're
talking to a cast member they will let
something slip out I know a few things I
shouldn't know and that is all I'm gonna
say about it because it's so much better
to find these things out when you watch
the movie that is everything that we
know and don't know and shouldn't know
about the rise of Skywalker as you can
see almost everything about it is still
a mystery which is probably as it should
be and everything is going to be
revealed around Christmas time this year