While fans have been eagerly pouring over their Episode IX BTS photos and character names today, Vanity Fair mentioned one other pretty significant nugget pertaining to The Rise of Skywalker that we’ve heard earlier. In their featured story, Vanity Fair states that Episode IX picks up about one year after the events of The Last Jedi, which saw our remaining band of Resistance heroes in some dire straits.
This is not the first time we’ve heard about this year-long time period between Episode VIII and Episode IX as Empire Magazine made reference to this time gap in their 2019 Preview issue back in December. The portion of Vanity Fair’s article that mentions this passage of time is copied below.
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Finally there’s Poe, who has mostly struggled with his own cocky impulsiveness, because he’s a loose-cannon-who-just-can’t-play-by-the-rules. Poe will have to step up and become a leader, because the Resistance is seriously short on officer material. In fact, some of that transformation will already have happened where The Rise of Skywalker picks up, which is about a year after the end of The Last Jedi. “There has been a bit of shared history that you haven’t seen,” Isaac says. “Whereas in the other films, Poe is this kind of lone wolf, now he’s really part of a group. They’re going out and going on missions and have a much more familiar dynamic now.” Star Wars has always been about friendship as much as it is about romance, and as of the end of The Last Jedi, Rey, Finn, and Poe are all finally in the same place for the first time since The Force Awakens.
