A lot of clarification, speculation, and overall design talk from Latino Review today...
http://www.latino-review.com/news/s7ar-wars-so-jedi-huntersNamely, that bit about "Jedi Hunters" from a few days was likely a little exaggerated/misinformed. Driver and Lupita Nyong are still almost assuredly the villains, but the bit about resurrecting the Sith/Darth Sidious probably isn't quite right.
And while "Da7e" is great scoop guy, his writing is often somewhat incoherent (as evident below). Still, his basic idea for the movie, based on everything he's heard so far, sounds amazingly cool; that Luke isn't so much a prominent, featured character as he is the
McGuffin of the movie. I love this notion that Luke has potentially tapped into some greater threat or knowledge, and the basic thrust of the movie is everyone trying to find him. Bad guys and good guys alike. Kind of a race to find Luke first, for whatever reasons. It would also be the perfect excuse to have to get the band back together, so to speak, to locate him. It would definitely explain why they're revisiting Tatooine as well.
Who knows if there's any truth to this, but I'm in love with the general concept...
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My speculation time. Read that again. Speculation. Here is the pivot where I stop relying on reporting and turn to my blessed fan-mind that’s trying to fit all these puzzle pieces into place. I still don’t go much for “An Ancient Evil” as a subtitle and that being the main thrust of the plot. Honestly, at this point, it’s shaping up as a search for Luke or on behalf of Luke.
As a really vague guess, I’d say Luke has been tapped into whatever the greater threat to the current Star War way before everyone else did and now that Han and Leia and the children begat from characters of the original trilogy need to find Luke and...this-other-character-I-shouldn’t-talk-about-yet… to mount some sort of defense or response. I don’t who these other "mercenaries" serve, but I doubt our hero faction aren’t the only ones looking for him.
Like I said, crazy guess, but a Luke-as-MacGuffin chase can give us enough time with [***potential spoiler***]soon-to-perish[***/potential spoiler***] Han and allow Mark Hamill to Yoda his way through the trilogy if he wanted too.
ANYWAY - I thought these confirmations, denials and speculations were worth waiting to talk about Warner Bros and DC’s new line-up of superhero films (especially since I think El Mayimbe has a bit more to say about that).
I am, however, so very pleased to have real news, rumors and discussion coming out about this movie 548 days away from release. I’d be disappointed if we knew the whole thing already, honestly.
[This message has been edited by TCTTS (edited 6/18/2014 1:01p).]