STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - The Mystery Surrounding Luke Skywalker Will Remain as is Until December 18

Right away I'll be upfront with you... This post really doesn't reveal anything new regarding Luke Skywalker. But some of the things said are quite interesting.

So where is Luke in STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS? The newest issue of Entertainment Weekly tries to address this mystery but unfortunately all the questions every Star Wars fan has about Luke will remain unanswered until you're in your theater seat.

But here's a snippet of what EW has reported regarding Luke being the film's biggest MacGuffin...

"'It was the thing that struck me the hardest, which was the idea that doing a story that took place nearly 40 years after Jedi meant that there would be a generation for whom Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia would be as good as myth,' Abrams says. 'They’d be as old and as mythic as the tale of King Arthur. They would be characters who they may have heard of, but maybe not. They’d be characters who they might believe existed, or just sounded like a fairy tale.'

This is especially true of Daisy Ridley’s Rey, a young woman who was abandoned on the desert world of Jakku as a child and forced to eke out a meager existence as a scavenger amid its battlefield junkyards. 

"'To someone who is living alone and struggling without a formal education or support system, who knows what that person in the literal middle of nowhere would have ever heard about any of these things, or would ever know, and how much that person would have to infer and piece together on their own,' Abrams says. 'So the idea that someone like that would begin to learn that the Jedi were real, and that the Force exists, and that there’s a power in the universe that sounds fanciful but is actually possible, was an incredibly intriguing notion.'

"John Boyega’s Finn, raised from childhood to be a stormtrooper for The First Order, has actually heard of Luke Skywalker, but he was given a starkly different picture of him. 'For Finn, he’s been raised from the ashes of the Empire,' says Boyega. 'He’s been taught about Luke Skywalker, he knows about his history. For him it’s like joining the army and then learning about one of the great enemies of your country. It has that effect on him. But in terms of the Force, and the magical stuff that happens, that is the point where Finn kind of questions what is what. What is the Force, what part does Luke Skywalker play in all of this?'

"Han Solo, he adds, doesn’t inspire the same fear. For Finn, it really is kind of: 'Han who?' 

"'To a stormtrooper they’ve probably been given a watered down bit about Han Solo or something,' he says. 'It doesn’t feel as magical and mythical and historical, so you know. It’s quite fun playing that not really knowing who these people are.'

"He ends up in possession of the lightsaber that once belonged to Luke, and to Luke’s father before him. It was last seen tumbling down an air shaft after Darth Vader sliced off his hand and revealed that he, he was Luke’s father. In this film … it’s an important piece of the puzzle that will reveal Luke’s fate and whereabouts."

And yes... EW has confirmed that that is Luke in the above image.

To read the remainder of this article on EW, click here.


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