The Art of Star Wars : The Last Jedi is much more than a bunch of pretty pictures . Buried inPhil Szostak ’s 256 - page bookare some captivating insights into the production of the film . And while we highly recommend you flip through yourself , we pluck out our favorites .
1 ) One of the early pieces of art for The Last Jedi was in reality hypothesize to be in The Force Awakens . Designer Doug Chiang paint an image of Luke ’s X - wing underwater in February 2013 , but it got cut from that motion-picture show , and was used in TLJ instead .
2 ) A storyboarded version of the opening shot would have panned down from the crawl to reveal what at first looks like a huge satellite , but was actually going to be the top of the storage tank Finn is recuperate in .
3 ) The opening battle scene of the motion picture was n’t always directly after The Force Awakens above D’Qar . But choosing the location inform the excogitation of the First Order ’s Dreadnaught . The top was always flat , to countenance for Poe ’s heroic , but guns were added on its bottom , to displace at the planet below .
4 ) The Resistance Italian sandwich were a very former melodic theme and a nod to how George Lucas was influenced by the planes of World War II . Also , while you may not be able to see it in the movie , some of the bombs have messages on them like “ Hi Snoke ” and “ Han say Hi . ”
5 ) An early draught of The Last Jedi had Finn as the pilot film of the bomber with Paige Tico , until writer - conductor Rian Johnson fall upon it down . “ If Finn witnessed Paige ’s death and did n’t get laid she was Rose ’s sister that mean there would have to be a giving scene after he find out out , ” Johnson says in the book . “ If he did know Paige was Rose ’s sister , there would either have to be a big ‘ I discover your sister die ’ scene , which I did n’t want to save and the movie would have come to a full stop to do , or he would be an asshole because he would never tell her . So in the end it find really right as a circle - up but I realized there was no wood to burn in terms of a salary - off . ”
6 ) There was a piece of concept fine art that would have had Rey abandon the Millennium Falcon in the water of Ahch - To because she could n’t find a property to land .
7 ) For Rey ’s costume modification after Han ’s death , an former figure had her directly influenced by the contrabandist , with a short spicy cap and brown knickers with carmine Deutschmark down the side .
- The reference of Rose came about because Johnson originally had Poe travel with Finn to Canto Bight , “ and it was so boring , ” he say . “ It was just these two dudes on an dangerous undertaking … I realize I had to fare up with something else . Finn need somebody else to go with who would really challenge him and labour him and contrast with him was where Rose come from . ”
9 ) The codebreaker storyline on Canto Bight was also much more complex in early bill of exchange and designs . in the beginning , Finn and Rose were going to find him work keyboard company a waiting room vocalist . He was there “ case an insectoid warlord known as the Butcher of Brix ” from whom he planned to steal “ the stemma precious stone that finance his murderous regime . ” The three would go on a journeying to feel a backpack with thieving tool , only to get caught on the ceiling and Finn and Rose put into prison .
10 ) Late in the design process , Lucasfilm President of the United States Kathleen Kennedy said that the design of Canto Bight did n’t feel “ Star Wars ” enough to her . So the team scrapped everything and ultimately delineate breathing in from early Ralph McQuarrie drawing off ’s of Jabba ’s Palace .
11 ) The whole Canto Bight aspect originally start with Rose and Finn breaking into a clothing shop to put on fancy dress to blend in . However , Finn would ’ve put his tuxedo on back , and everyone was go to laugh at him .
12 ) There was a bathing machine sequence on Canto Bight that was design and shot but not used in the movie . It ’s not entirely clear how it would have wager into the motion picture , or why it was cut , but it seems like it may have been another elaborate , lavish localization for the fathiers to demolish through . It was a steamy place over with stranger in all fashion of dress , lounging around and perspire .
13 ) Before DJ was in the flick , Finn , Rose , and BB-8 ’s reaching on Snoke ’s ship started with several unlike gags . One was them following a trail of lint into a washing way . Another was an homage to Han and Chewie running into a mass of Stormtroopers on the Death Star , except this metre , all the suits would be empty .
14 ) At one point , there was a line in the film where Snoke mentioned his gold slippers .
15 ) The three flashbacks in the cinema , which are an homage to Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa , were one of the final things to go into the handwriting before dissipate . Johnson saw them as a way to give Rey more worked up impact when get out Ahch - To , by having Luke ab initio lie about what happened between him and Ben Solo .
16 ) The Art of lists the various dates of the movie ’s output , earmark us to put together a fascinating timeline of how it got made — and how early work begin on it ;
January 9 , 2013 – The first visual meeting about new Star Wars movies
May 16 , 2014 – The Force Awakens begins take
May 27 , 2014 – Rogue One director Gareth Edwards ’ first day at Lucasfilm
July 2 , 2014 – Rian Johnson ’s first day at Lucasfilm
August 2014 – The introductory story for The Last Jedi is in blank space
November 12 , 2014 – A production situation for The Last Jedi open in Burbank , CA
March 4 , 2015 – The first draft of The Last Jedi is fill in .
April 20 , 2015 – Rian Johnson and his squad submit the film and former work to Disney administrator .
July 29 , 2015 – The second draft of The Last Jedi is submitted .
August 3 , 2015 – Rogue One starts filming .
September 15 - 17 , 2015 – Johnson and his crew captivate the first footage for The Last Jedi on Skellig Michael in Ireland . This “ preshoot ” was to get out-of-door shooting before the weather changed .
December 11 , 2015 – A third draft of The Last Jedi is complete .
December 18 , 2015 – The Force Awakens opens in theatre .
February 1 , 2016 – The first draft of the shot script for The Last Jedi is finish .
February 11 , 2016 – The Last Jedi set about chief photography .
July 29 , 2016 – The Last Jedi finishes filming .
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