" Star Wars : The Last Jedi , " is the first time we ’ve seen a " Star Wars " moving-picture show open now after the previous one . The longest gap between films spanned ten , the shortest gaps less than a twelvemonth , but clip had always passed .

" The Last Jedi " blame up moments after " The Force Awakens " finish , and that ending was bleak . The center of government in the galaxy was destroyed . An entire Dominicus was consumed , and a satellite squander up . But most devastating of all was the death of Han Solo .

The last of Han Solo , mutilate at the hand of Kylo Ren , his own son , was a seismic event in term of " Star Wars . " From the 1977 debut of the first moving picture , Han Solo has been one of the most pop fiber in the franchise . bring to life by Harrison Ford , Solo was a sorcerous rogue and smuggler who reluctantly joined the Rebellion against the Empire . But for the characters in the " Star Wars " creation , the tread of " The Last Jedi " leaves them no time to mourn .

Han Solo in 1977’s “Star Wars”

" The Last Jedi " opens minute after " The Force Awakens " ends , and Oscar Isaac , who plays the pilot Poe Dameron , said at thepress conferencethat there was just no time for care about Han ’s death . " It ’s a dire position and the Resistance is on its last legs . We ’re trying to hold up , and the First Order is correct on top of us . It ’s like war , and you have to keep be active and oppose to last . Everything that happens in ' The Force Awakens ' just keeps pushing and reach a decisive tidy sum . "

John Boyega , who play Finn , agreed . " We ’re just keeping it moving . The press is on . That was the thing that was unique to me about this film is the commentary on warfare . There has n’t been a ' Star Wars ' movie yet that address warfare like this one does . It ’s messy . In term of Han , we all feel sentimental , but Finn has a back accidental injury , he ’s bugger off stuff to do . "

But Daisy Ridley , who plays Rey , had a different position , insist that Solo ’s death profoundly affected her character . " Rey is very much impress by Han ’s decease . Rey has been alone for a very long clip and Han without seek to , she seeks something in him because there ’s an intimacy and something there she never dream of , and it ’s snatched aside . For Rey , she has some time to take some questions and wonder what it is that would head someone [ like Kylo Ren ] to do something like that . "

For General Leia , it wo n’t be the first fourth dimension she ’ll have to shelve her doleful feelings to press the war . In the original " Star Wars , " after watching the devastation of her dwelling house satellite of Alderaan , she still has to get theDeath Starplans to the Rebels . " There are no time for our rue , " she tell Commander Willard once she arrived on Yavin . And with the First Order bearing down on her at the end of " The Force Awakens , " she ’ll have to recover another metre to parcel out with them as well .

But there ’s every chance that " The Last Jedi " will cease in an even more dire post than " The Force Awakens " did . And these characters might have so much more to mourn later — when they at last find the prison term .