Though Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson admits his film has some parallels to The Empire Strikes Back, what we’ve learned about the story of the saga’s eighth chapter seemingly illustrates it will not be a beat-for-beat remake of that aforementioned classic. One of the most common criticisms lobbied against The Force Awakens – even by those who love it – is that the movie “borrowed” a little too liberally from A New Hope and was a soft reboot. While the new characters became instant fan-favorites and an exciting future was set up, some of the similarities between Episode VII and the seminal ...
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