One of the many questions surrounding the upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is how Rian Johnson and co. will handle the passing of Carrie Fisher. Leia Organa was originally supposed to appear in all the trilogy films, but the actress’ passing forced a change in plans. It has already been ruled out that she’ll be revived digitally for any future films, so it’ll be interesting to see how the saga pivots around this unfortunate narrative road bump. Perhaps we now have a clue.
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John Boyega is doing the rounds for “Detroit,” and during a stop on “Popcorn With Peter Travers,” he teased that Lucasfilm had found a satisfying way to say farewell to the iconic character.
“It sends her off in a very amazing way,” the actor said. “She is still kept alive in this franchise and that’s the beauty of it – she lives forever in a sense.”
I’ll let the “Star Wars” super nerds try and break down what that actually means, but it’s certainly nice to know some care and thought seems to have gone into how to handle this situation.
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” opens on December 15th.