Leaked Star Wars: Episode IX poster, image reveals first look at key new character

I do have to say, as a massive Star Wars fan, I agree with JJ here.
If you look at all the posters, while they have a specific template, they weren’t generic by any sense. They tell a story. Just look at the posters of Empire Strikes Back. Han kissing Leia, or the main one of Vader and Palpatine pushing forward the Empire fleet. They had “less” going on. But no Luke, even though he was a key figure in the movie. THE key figure.

This poster just has every main character splashed on the front and tells nothing other than “these folk are going against the First Order and a Sith”

It lacks a certain emotional pull that gives you a glimpse in to the extreme issues they will face. Star Wars is a Space Opera. There should be more of an emotional angle on the posters. Not just “The good guys and the bad guys” on the front.

Not sure if I am making sense here, but it makes sense in my head

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Even Episode 7 had a fantastic poster
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/36d6ba9972bbec83ef61868319101e6c68ca7a91448f42e714cbdbf9aa21fc4e.png Let’s take a look at it.
What do we see? Well first we see Red and Blue. The indication of Good Vs Evil
What next, 2 lightsabers. 1 Red, 1 Blue. Red is easy great. There’s our Sith. But the design is weird. What’s that about? Then Blue… Is this the new Jedi? From rumors and trailers we know the answer is no. So why is it there?

Then Rey, wait look how her staff is lined up with the Sith Lightsaber blade. Foreshadowing. Is she the actual Jedi who doesn’t know she is?

The poster tells a story. There is looming threat of a massive station (In the background).
Finn is somehow going to wield a lighstaber, but he’s not a Jedi, while Rey looks like she might not even know she’s a Jedi but it hints that she may be.

The first order soldiers and the space ships take up a small part of the poster but seem massive in size, so we know they are a big military threat to go along with that battle station.

The only miss on this poster is Phasma who was pretty useless in the movie and was a throw away “cool looking” trooper. So should really have been left off the poster as there was no story element there really.

But the point I am trying to make is that there’s a story unfolding in the poster.

All that the new poster tells me is there will be a massive face off between our heroes and the first order. There’s no hint at story or trials to be faced. Even 3PO has a weapon in hand. So the poster tells me all out last ditch effort war. But that’s it.

Not even the Clone Wars poster had that many military hints even though the movie was all out war.
They had characters who showed that something was up . Anakin and Padme close together, there’s a connection there. Ben has his saber out, not Anakin, so is Ben going at it alone with the bounty hunter in the front?
The military portion of the posters are minimal. We know there’s war.

Personally the new poster for the last episode could have been made 100% better by removing all the first order soldiers and making the knights of Ren there a little more pronounced and maybe having less characters on screen with weapons. Maybe bring Lando’s daughter more in focus if she’s playing a pivotal role. The poster does not always need to feature the main character just like the Empire Strikes back didn’t include any Luke at all but rather just the emporer and vader (For the main one. The secondary poster has Luke but not as the focus)
I hope I’m making sense lol.

Phasma was a useless character, purely for marketing shizz

See my response above, but as stated in the article, this is not a normal promo poster. That must still be released. This is quick and dirty merchandising effort.

Well, I have to point out, that as I said in the article, this is not a normal promo poster. It’s the el-cheapo type normally used in supermarkets and the like to sell merchandise.

Solo was the only empty vessel and while I will say the new trilogy has had some parts I disagree with most of the time it is a super fun ride and nothing wrong with nostalgia I just wish they wouldn’t kill off all the nostalgic characters.

I really enjoyed Rogue One. That was a great SW movie. Haven’t watched Solo, just honestly haven’t been intrigued by it, and found both TFA and TLJ a bit bland. But I know some people loved them.

To be fair they could have made the movie only that last 20 minutes and it still would have been the best of the new stuff.

That Vader moment was the best antagonist scene in any movie ever!

Yea, that scene was great.

There were a couple deus ex machina moments, but the rest of the movie was so damn solid that it just didn’t matter, whereas both TFA and TLJ hinged on this device to complete the story.

Been meaning to read that series, but it feels less poignant with it not being canon, still recommend?

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Oh Thrawn did.

Thrawn was a really good antag

They’ve just squeezed in every recogniseable ship from the original series to make sure you know it’s SW.

It doesn’t feel like the posters of old that told a story… yes, I know I’m reading too much into it. But I also work in visual media, so this is just so on the nose for me.
Not bashing it, just saying it’s a little too much and it makes it feel inauthentic. I honestly feel The Force Awakens had a great poster…TLJ’s was good too.

Well, he is as tiny and hairy as them Ewoks

TRUTH BOMB

Put a tiny hairy man in a banana suit and the backstory is it hails from the Westernous Republic