![]() (There’s also a really intriguing concept mentioned in The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi that suggests that Luke would have been haunted by a Sith ghost during the movie.) We would have seen Luke struggling with his failure to stop the Jedi Killer (renamed “Kylo Ren”) from destroying his Jedi Academy. A new hope named Kira finds the old Jedi Master and they begin her training. The idea played out much like what we saw in Johnson’s movie: Luke is down and out on a distant planet thirty years after the fall of the Empire. Her robes were a bit different, but nothing too extreme.īut Lucas’ biggest contribution to The Last Jedi was the Luke/Rey story itself, which he’d originally planned for Episode VII, as confirmed by Lucasfilm Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo on Twitter ( via ). Kira’s concept didn’t stray too far from the plucky young heroine we got in Rey. Lucas even approved the design for a bell-shaped structure for the Jedi temple.Īmong the early designs tossed around for Luke were ones that looked pretty close to what we got in The Last Jedias well as one or two that were a bit radical, such as a bald Skywalker who looked closer to a Buddhist monk than a shaggy hermit. ![]() The earliest concepts for the Jedi temple on the planet that would become Ahch-To were ironed out during these meetings as well as visualizations of what an older Luke and young Kira would look like. According to the art book, Lucas sat in on the first creative meetings for Episode VII, which took place on Skywalker Ranch in January 2013, mere months after the Disney deal.
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