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[bankska22]

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Some possible new details have surfaced about John Boyega's character, Finn, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The guy went through quite an ordeal in The Force Awakens, but he'll be back in action and on a mission to help take down the First Order.

The following intel comes from Making Star Wars, who has been pretty reliable when it comes to Star Wars movie news. They have some well-placed sources. If you don't want to know what Finn will be up to in one major part of the story, then I suggest you stop reading now.

That being said, consider this a rumor until anything is released that confirms it.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi will apparently feature a First Order Super Star Destroyer that's bigger that any of the other Star Destroyers we've seen in the Star Wars Universe. It's described as being "huge" and a "triangle-shaped wedge."

   "This is just a gigantic huge wedge, solid, and dark. I speculate this is the main command ship of the First Order in The Last Jedi."

According to the report, Finn will end up on this ship as part of his mission, and he's got a very big adventure ahead of him. While on the ship Finn will be undercover wearing a First Order officer's uniform, and at one point he will run into a stormtrooper he used to know. This Stormtrooper is reportedly played by Tom Hardy.

   The gist is that a stormtrooper that used to know Finn slaps his ass; knowing him back when he was FN-2187, the trooper clearly doesn’t know what actually happened on Starkiller Base.

The trooper is said to be congratulating Finn on his promotion within the First Order. So what exactly is Finn doing undercover on this Star Destroyer? Well, he and Kelly Marie Tran’s character are there to plant explosives on it so that they can blow it up. Sounds to me like Finn is on a suicide mission. But it's Finn, I'm sure he'll be just fine.

They also saw some concept art from the film and explain that the ship is orbiting around the main world of the First Order:

   Concept art depicted the ship above a red world, which makes us think that could potentially be the main world of the First Order post-Starkiller Base. Snoke is supposed to travel around via a mobile command base so it is hard to say if he’s actually there. After the First Order’s defeat at the Starkiller Base and with more training for Kylo Ren on the horizon, perhaps he changed his security protocols?

Again, we probably won't know if any of this is true until we start seeing some actual footage from the film. Until then, this is only a rumor that is meant to spark discussion among fans because that's what we love to do!

Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes from writer and director Rian Johnson. It's currently in post-production and will be released on December 15, 2017.

[VincentLupo]

That's still a lot of months away.

[bankska22]

So far away!!!! Will he become a Jedi????

[ctaulbee]

Well I felt after watching Force Awakens his whole character was not needed and added very little to the story line.  Plus it went against the whole Stormtrooper premise, that being they were "genetic engineered clones" who were incapable of thinking for themselves, killing machines if you will, so having him defect just kind of ruined that whole thing for me.  Seems there would have been a host of other ways to bring his character in if they wanted too. Still trying to figure out why he was needed anyway along with Han Sol and several others who seemed shoehorned in just to help sell tickets. I was rather disappointed in the whole mess myself it was less than what I have come to expect from the Star Wars Franchise.

Rogue One on the other hand abandoned all that silliness in favor of a brand new story and new characters and it worked much better, I really liked it.

[topmeasure]

He's an unnecessary character and him wielding a lightsaber, to me was just out of place. A lightsaber - until then - was a Jedi weapon, yet in Awakens it didn't seem like only a Jedi can wield it. To me in Awakens a lot of mistakes were made, I hope VIII will be better.

[ctaulbee]

He's an unnecessary character and him wielding a lightsaber, to me was just out of place. A lightsaber - until then - was a Jedi weapon, yet in Awakens it didn't seem like only a Jedi can wield it. To me in Awakens a lot of mistakes were made, I hope VIII will be better.

Could not agree more and I wanted to like it too, I went to the theater and I did buy it on Blu just because it is Star Wars related but it's bottom of the list on my SW scale, I even rank The Clone Wars animated series above it... I'm really hoping they wow me with VIII.