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In a new Vanity Fair cover story, director Rian Johnson, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and the film's stars opened up about the sequel. Four different beautiful cover photos were also shot for the story.

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00:00Star Wars The Last Jedi is peeling back the curtain on the upcoming movie.

00:07In a new Vanity Fair cover story, director Rian Johnson, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy

00:12and the film's stars opened up about the sequel. Four different beautiful cover photos

00:16were also shot for the story. Here are a few things we learned from the piece,

00:20which comes one day before the 40th anniversary of Star Wars hitting theaters in 1977.

00:25First, one might guess from the trailer that Luke, played by Mark Hamill and Rey,

00:29a.k.a. Daisy Ridley, spend a sizable amount of time training, akin to Yoda and Luke

00:34in Empire Strikes Back. But Johnson said the Luke-Rey relationship is not totally analogous

00:39to the Luke-Yoda relationship. We also now know who the new characters are, sort of.

00:44At Star Wars Celebration in April, The Last Jedi team revealed that Kelly Marie Tran's character

00:48was a maintenance worker named Rose, who has a key role in the film. The Vanity Fair story

00:53reveals Rose's sister Paige, played by Veronica Noe, will appear in the film and that Laura Dern's

00:58character is Vice Admiral Holdo. Benicio del Toro's mystery character will not be named in

01:03Last Jedi, but the filmmakers called him DJ. Plus, we will see the galaxy's wealthy side

01:08in Last Jedi. Rose and Finn, played by John Boyega, will travel to a casino city called

01:13Canto Bight, which Johnson described as a Star Wars Monte Carlo-type environment.

01:17A little James Bond-ish, a little to catch a thief. Finally, we learned that Episode 9 would have been

01:22Carrie Fisher's movie. Following her death, the Lucasfilm team not only mourned, but eventually

01:27had to plan a future for Star Wars without General Leia. The plan had been for Leia to

01:31take a larger role in 9, and after wrapping Last Jedi, Fisher said that was her hope, too.

01:36Kennedy revealed,

01:37The minute she finished, she grabbed me and said, I'd better be at the forefront of 9. Because

01:41Harrison Ford was front and center on 7, and Mark is front and center on 8, she thought 9 would

01:46be her movie. And it would have been.

01:48For much more from the revealing Vanity Fair cover story, check out THR.com.

01:52I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.

01:55This episode of The Hollywood Reporter News is brought to you by American Airlines, Hollywood's

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