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Today, Vanity Fair debuts the cast of its follow-up, The Last Jedi, on four different covers, marking the first time we've released alternate Star Warscovers. Leibovitz's full portfolio will be online Wednesday, along with our story on the making of the new film, written by David Kamp. The Summer issue of Vanity Fair will be on newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on May 31, and nationally on June 6. Readers in search of the full Vanity Fair-Star Wars experience, including all four covers, a commemorative poster, and early access, on May 24, to our digital editions, with lightsaber effects by Industrial Light & Magic, can purchase here.

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"I'm not a great writer," says Lucas, whose strength lies in concocting huge scenarios, not in coming up with snappy dialogue or in constructing small domestic scenes. "I'm trying to tell a story using cinema, not trying to write a great script. I use the script as a blueprint."

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I'll never understand why George couldn't give all his notes and basic stories to a good screenwriter(s), and letting them write the scripts.

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2/7Marine0311 said:

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The villains cover looks like a white trash reunion.

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Earlier this spring, in a screening room in the Frank G. Wells Building at Walt Disney Studios, in Burbank, California, Johnson described to me the approach he took to writing The Last Jedi, the second film of the Rey-centered trilogy. "J.J. and Larry and Michael set everybody up in a really evocative way in VII and started them on a trajectory. I guess I saw it as the job of this middle chapter to challenge all of those characterslet's see what happens if we knock the stool out from under them," he said.

As it is, none of the main characters in The Force Awakens emerged from that picture in what can be described as a triumphal state. John Boyega's Finn had been gravely wounded in a lightsaber duel with Kylo Ren. In a telephone interview from China, where he was filming Pacific Rim: Uprising, Boyega told me that, as teased in The Last Jedi's first trailer, his character, Finn, begins the new movie in a "bacta suit," a sort of regenerative immersion tank that, in the Star Wars galaxy, heals damaged tissue. Adam Driver, alluding both to Finn's state and the scar seen on his own face in the trailer, told me, "I feel like almost everyone is in that rehabilitation state. You know, I don't think that patricide is all that it's cracked up to be. Maybe that's where Kylo Ren is starting from. His external scar is probably as much an internal one."

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That Luke is so changed a person presented Johnson with rich narrative opportunities. The Last Jedi is to a large extent about the relationship between Luke and Rey, but Johnson cautions against any "one-to-one correlation" between, say, Yoda's tutelage of young Luke in The Empire Strikes Back and old Luke's tutelage of Rey. "There's a training element to it," he said, "but it's not exactly what you would expect." This being the spoiler-averse world of Lucasfilm, the production company behind the Star Wars movies, that's about as specific as the director is willing to get. (No, he won't tell you if Luke is related to Rey, or, for that matter, what species the super-villain Supreme Leader Snoke happens to be, or which character the title The Last Jedi refers to.)

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