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Essential Points
- Film Focus: The Star Wars sequel trilogy continues to spark debate among fans of all ages.
- Jedi Texts: The sacred Jedi texts, revealed in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, are crucial to the Jedi lore.
- Production Details: Director Rian Johnson selected 10 out of 40 designed books for the film, with one prominently featured.
- Future Role: Questions remain about the significance of these texts in Rey’s journey to form a New Jedi Order.
The Star Wars sequel trilogy remains a hot topic for Star Wars fans, young and old. No matter where you stand on the three films, though, one thing we can probably all agree on is the one prop from the series that we’d most like to hold in our hands and explore: the sacred Jedi texts.
Revealed in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, the Jedi texts are stored on Ahch-To and watched over by Luke Skywalker after he leaves the Jedi order and the Force behind him. They’re the last remnants of the teachings and history of the Jedi way, something that has long been discussed and battled over in the course of the series. Luke himself remains unclear about their teachings and, despite trying to destroy them, they end up in Rey’s possession by the end of the film. What’s next for those texts, we do not yet know but we now can finally get a good glimpse inside them.
The official Star Wars website recently posted about the props that were created for the films. Forty different books were designed and conceived, from which director Rian Johnson selected 10 for the actual movie. Of those, only one gets shown off in the film, and that book itself took about two weeks to make. It not only includes the page we briefly see in the film but several others too. Pages that existed on set but were never seen. Until now.
Here are a few images of the sacred Jedi texts and their interior pages from StarWars.com.
The prop clearly still exists, so the question then becomes, will we see it again? Will these texts, which we last saw in Rey’s possession, play a role in how she aims to start a New Jedi Order? Or will Rey’s New Jedi Order go against the teachings in these books? Those clearly didn’t work, as now, almost every Jedi is extinct.
To read more and see more images, head over to StarWars.com. Daisy Ridley’s return to the Star Wars universe, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, is still without a release date.
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