As expected, there has been more than enough content for Star Wars print media collectors to add to their growing collections for The Last Jedi. Rolling Stone magazine joins that group with their latest cover featuring a group shot of Kylo Ren, Rey, and Luke from Episode VIII. A lengthy must-read article that includes comments made by director Rian Johnson, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, and Daisy Ridley accompanies the cover reveal, so check out an excerpt from the piece copied below and then head to their site for the rest of the article.
The Last Jedi, due December 15th, is the second episode of the current trilogy, and advance word has suggested that, as in the original middle film, The Empire Strikes Back, things get darker this time. But [director Rian] Johnson pushes back on that, though he does admit some influence from the morally ambiguous 2000s reboot of Battlestar Galactica (which is funny, because Lucas considered the Seventies TV show a rip-off and urged a lawsuit – long since settled – against it). “That’s one thing I hope people will be surprised about with the movie,” Johnson says. “I think it’s very funny. The trailers have been kind of dark – the movie has that, but I also made a real conscious effort for it to be a riot. I want it to have all the things tonally that I associate with Star Wars, which is not just the Wagner of it. It’s also the Flash Gordon.”
