Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi

Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, marketed as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, is a 2017 film directed by Rian Johnson; co-written by Johnson, Lawrence Kasdan, and J.J Abrams; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions.It is the second film in the [Wars|Star Wars] [trilogy|sequel trilogy]. The film sees the return of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita[Nyong'o|]Nyong'O, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, and Andy Serkis. New cast members include Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern, and Kelly Marie Tran.

The Last Jedi begins immediately after the events of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, set thirty years after the conclusion of the original Star Wars trilogy. It continues the story of Rey and her discovery of the exiled Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, along with the story of the war between General Leia Organa's Resistance and the First Order.

The film was released on December 14, 2017 in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Latin America, and European countries; December 15, 2017 in North America; and January 5, 2018 in China. Some North American theaters offered special limited advance showings on the evening of December 14th rather than the traditional midnight showing. The sequel to The Last Jedi, Star Wars: Episode IX, is scheduled for release on December 20, 2019, marking the conclusion of the sequel trilogy.

Resistance evacuation
Following their successful operation to destroy Starkiller Base, Resistance fighters begin their evacuation from their main base as First Order ships close in on them, yet the problem is apparent that there are no more escape shuttles. With about twenty Resistance fighters left on the planet, their leader Leia Organa calls in backup from another base near them with the help of C-3PO.

Meanwhile, the two last Resistance pilots left on the planet, Poe and Nien Nunb fly up into the sky to fight a large imperial star destroyer called The Eliminator, and they manage to take down multiple of it's cannons before Nien Nunb gets shot down by a Tie-Fighter. Poe flies down towards Numb, but gets shot down aswell and crashes along with BB-8. Poe crawls up to Numb's X-Wing to find that the Sullustan has died.

Finn wakes up and falls in panic when he realizes that D-Quar is being invaded by the First Order. He runs into the forest where he meets Leia, C-3PO and Admiral Ackbar looking up at the sky with multiple other Resistance fighters. A Resistance shuttle from a far lands infront of them, a group of Resistance fighters and a Resistance captain named Rose Tico marching out, along with the old Rebel pilot Wedge Antilles. Poe reaches them and tells them about Nien Numb's death. After a short moment of grief they all board the shuttle to find the other Resistance shuttles, the shuttle set to go to the water planet Crait.

After blowing out into hyperspace, they realize that they are being followed through hyperspace by the First Order. To solve this, Finn and Rose along with C-3PO and Admiral Ackbar leave to a First Order base near them on the planet Bight where they suspect that someone there is tracking them, while the rest of them leave Leia behind with Poe.

After Finn, Rose and the others leave the remaining fighters onboard realize that their shield is faulty, and that something is slowly turning it off from the inside. They soon realize that a First Order troop has snuck onboard and is hacking the shield from the inside. Poe and Wedge go looking for the spy, finding the woman Holdo who turns out to be the spy. Holdo escapes the ship after killing Wedge and paralyzing Leia.

They have a funeral for both Wedge and Nunb by throwing them out in space while they are in their coffins while the paralyzed Leia wakes up as they almost arrive to Crait, the shield intact as the First Order still follows them slowly.

They land on Crait, a colorful planet with red water puddles all around and an abandoned old Rebel base further away. They enter it and call Finn and Rose who tells them that they are on the way to Crait now. Meanwhile the First Order closes in aswell, sending their entire forces. Poe realizes that if they fight against the First Order now, they can end the war once and for all.

Training on Ahch-To
Having arrived on the water world of Ahch-To with the Wookiee Chewbacca and astromech droid R2-D2 aboard the Millennium Falcon, the Force-sensitive Rey meets Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Luke refuses to come with Rey to save the Resistance due to his fear of putting them in even more danger, yet learning about Rey's force powers he agrees to train her so that she can save the Resistance instead of him, as his time as a hero is over. Training starts off, yet Rey has trouble learning, Luke fearing that she is not ready to become a jedi, telling his doubts to Chewie.

After strange visions Rey travels to a cavern beneath the island where the dark side is powerful and experiences a vision while touching a reflective rock wall, asking to see her parents but seeing only her own reflection. She tells Luke about something dragging her towards the dark side, and it wants to tell her the truth about where she came from.

Luke convinces Rey not to go looking for the truth, and so they continue their training. While doing so, Rey finds a tree in the island, a gate in it's middle. She enters the gate to be faced by a bunch of books. Luke mentions the location as the first Jedi temple, and the location of the journal of the Wills, a collection of books explaining the force.

Kylo Ren's training
While all of this is happening, General Hux leads Kylo Ren to Snoke's ship Supremacy where Snoke begins Kylo Ren's training. Snoke calls in the Knights of Ren as well, who come with him and Kylo to the planet Daahg where Kylo is tasked to destroy multiple rocks with his mind, using his anger to ravage the ground and the boudlers being thrown at him by Snoke.

He also trains with the Knights of Ren with lightsaber battle, clashing his Crossguard against their mostly steel weapons. At the end, Kylo unleaches his anger to the fullest and throws away an entire tornado with the dark side of the force, all while Hux is watching. Kylo's eyes turn yellow and red, Snoke ordering him to find Luke.

Snoke remembers snapping into Rey's mind and seeing an island, wich he now recognized as the location of the first Jedi temple, a location Luke had told him about when Kylo was still a Jedi apprentice, on the planet Achc-To. Kylo flees with the Knights of Ren, searching for Luke in his mind. At last when Luke is asleep Kylo reaches out to him in his dreams, locating Luke's location and beginning to fly to Achc-To.

The base on Bight
Finn, Rose, Ackbar and Threepio arrive on the First order base on Bight where they sneak inside, disguising themselves. Rose and Ackbar leave to plant explosives in the base while Finn finds the informationist sending locations of the Resistance to the First order. Meanwhile, Threepio stays outside to keep a look out.

Finn finds Captain Phasma in the base and sneaks past her, reaching the room where Officer Dio, the informationist for the First Order sits and sends the locations of the Resistance to the First Order. Finn defeats Dio and starts escaping, but not before Phasma finds him. They have a short fight before Finn escapes with Rose and Ackbar, along with Threepio as the building explodes behind them.

Phasma survives the explotion alongs with a group of troopers. She goes after Finn with her troops just as he is about to get on the ship to escape. Finn and others manage to escape but not before Ackbar gets shot in the chest by Phasma. Ackbar breaths one last time before dying in Finn's arms. Rose looks up the location of the Resistance, who now have arrived on Crait. Finn sets course against the planet and starts flying while Phasma goes back to Snoke's ship.

Battle on Ahch-To
After finding Luke's location, Kylo and the Knights of Ren go to Ahch-To. Rey spots their ship and tells Luke about it. Her and Luke go to a field where Kylo Ren's shuttle lands, him and the Knights of Ren marching out of it.

Rey tells Kylo that it's not to late to turn good again. Luke spots Kylo's yellow eyes, realizing that Kylo has embraced the dark side to it's fullest. Rey hands Luke her lightsaber, but Luke turns the offer down and readies himself with his staff. Chewbacca joins the fight aswell.

The two sides launch at eachother, Luke and Rey switching weapons with eachother then and then while the Knights of Ren get defeated one by one. Finally Kylo, Rey, Luke and Chewie are the only ones there along with R2-D2 who is watching.

Kylo knocks Rey out and fights Luke instead, their lightsabers clashing before Luke blows Kylo away, knocking him out. Luke wakes Rey up, telling her that she needs to go. Rey reminds Luke that she has not yet completed her training, but Luke simply cares about Rey's safety and puts her on the Falcon where she flies away, leaving Luke behind.

Luke looks over to Kylo who is still unconsious. He turns around and looks out over the ocean, realizing that the Resistance does need his help. Luke raises his hand forward, and his old X-Wing emerges from the water, Luke jumps inside and leaves the planet, sending a message to Leia telling her that he's coming.

Kylo wakes up and enters his Shuttle, leaving off to Snoke's ship.

Preperation for the final battle (Resistance)
Rey and Chewie arrive on Crait along with Finn and Rose and R2-D2 and C-3PO. After a reunion they discuss the possibilty of ending the war here on Crait. They collect all their weapons and armor themselves for battle before Rey admits that she has to leave to find Snoke and defeat him.

She says goodbye to the others and leaves in a pod.

Preperation for the final battle (First order)
Kylo arrives with Hux to Snoke, who senses the near arrival of Luke Skywalker. They send away their Tie Fighters and other battle ships at Crait where the rebellion is waiting.

Battle on the Supremacy.
Rey arrives on Snoke's ship, realizing that her drag towards the dark side came from Snoke himself to lure her here. Snoke senses the power inside Rey and wants her to join him, but after he realizes that Rey hasn't completed her training Snoke throws her to the ground, making her unconcious.

Luke arrives in the sky with his X-Wing, wich Leia immediately recognizes. After a battle with a few Tie fighters Luke flies into Snoke's ship and crashes his ship in the attempt, yet he still stands up and runs to save Rey.

Luke storms into the room and battles Snoke without any weapons, simply the force while Rey wakes up and duels Kylo with her lightsaber. Snoke defeats Luke, but gets impaled by Rey, causing Snoke to die and fall to the ground. Luke and Rey team up to fight Kylo and Hux, who both loose to Luke, yet Rey still looses. Luke gets Rey into a shuttle with him and they both leave the ship that is now slowly crashing down into the surface below.

Battle of Crait
On the ground the First Order storms the Resistance base, defeating many of them with Phasma in the lead. Finn arrives at the scene and duels Phasma with an electric baton while Poe and BB-8 fight the rest along with Rose to protect Leia.

Outside, Snoke's ship crashes while Luke and Rey escape with a pod. They both run out at the surface and fight the troopers, Kylo landing in a shuttle further away. He ignores Rey and Luke and goes inside straight for Leia. Luke follows Kylo in secret while Rey stays outside and fights troopers.

Kylo throws Poe and Rose aside and enters Leia's room, where Leia seems to be waiting for him. She has a talk with Kylo, about how it's not to late to change. The yellow in Kylo's eyes softens, yet he rushes forward and turns on his lightsaber on Leia's chest. Luke's screams out in rage and launches at Kylo, them both dueling, Leia's body clinging to life beside them.

Chewbacca jumps into the falcon and flies up in the sky, fighting off Tie-fighters, while Finn defeats Phasma, but keeps her alive. He rushes to help Rey, and they both fight back to back.

The battle between Luke and Kylo ends when Kylo pushes Luke back. Rey senses that Luke is in danger and runs into the base where she knocks Kylo out with the force. She notices that the forces of the First Order are falling.

Chewie lands with the Falcon and grabs the hurt Leia, putting her onboard the Falcon. Soon enough the First Order sinks into mearly a thousand people. Rey boards the Falcon with Finn and everyone else, except for Luke who faces Kylo face to face. Every trooper behind Kylo fires at Luke who blocks the blasts with the force, yet there are too many for him to handle.

If Luke let's go he will die, yet he cannot handle it any more and let's go, but somehow the blasts don't hit him. Luke turns around to see Rey blocking them instead, telling Luke to get onboard the Falcon. He does and they both escape away with the rest of the Resistance who are now bigger than the First Order.

On the Falcon Luke sits next to the damaged Leia on her bed. Leia tells Luke how much he has grown, before she dies. The group forms around Leia's body, realizing something, The war is over, they defeated the First Order bringing peace to the galaxy, but just because the war is over doesn't mean the battle is as Rey points out.

The war ends
Kylo Ren takes on the role of leader for the now small First Order, while Luke and Rey begins their search for him, deciding that Luke will keep on training Rey. Luke takes his lightsaber back and tells Rey that her time has come to get her own. We next see the funeral for Leia, her coffin being sent into space, being blown out into space, our heroes crying, Luke in front as he remembers his sister, her memories always with him.