Now this might be the coolest place to watch ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

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You might watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi in IMAX or Atmos or whatever high-tech theatre you want to catch it in. But nothing beats this special screening of the movie. NASA has confirmed with io9 that The Last Jedi will be streaming on the International Space Station. The movie will be shown in English as all crew members can speak both English and Russian. Now, when this’ll happen, there isn’t a timetable yet but according to NASA’s Dan Hout, the ISS gets movies as digital files that they can watch on a laptop or a “standard projector” that’s aboard the space station.

‘Star Wars’ star Mark Hamill creates tragic backstory for Luke Skywalker

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Actors need to create an identity and backstory for them to get their characters right. And for someone like Mark Hamill, who has played the iconic role of Star Wars’s Luke Skywalker for so many years, we aren’t surprised he has his own idea of how Luke ended up being the way he is before The Last Jedi. It has to be said that this idea Hamill shares with Entertainment Weekly isn’t considered canon or part of the Star Wars narrative. It’s just something the actor created to find the motivation of his character. And what do we learn? He thinks something devastating had to happen. “I wrote lots and lots of scenarios,” Hamill says. “I made notes that he fell in love with a woman who was a widow and had this young child.”

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OnePlus 5T gets ‘Star Wars’ Limited Edition version in India

Just in time for the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on December 15^th, OnePlus announced a Limited Edition 5T Star Wars model coming exclusively to India. The phone, which was teased at the Bengaluru Comic Con, will be unveiled at a popup store in Mumbai on December 14^th. Ticket sales kick off on Thursday. The phone itself comes in white and has a red alert slider button, Star Wars logo in red on the back, and a First Order stormtrooper wallpaper. 

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Daisy Ridley is ready to hang up her lightsaber after ‘Episode IX’

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While we know that a new Star Wars trilogy is heading our way in the future, there might be one face we won’t see then. Actress Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in the sequel trilogy, is ready to give up the role after Episode IX is done. Speaking to Rolling Stone she says, "I am really, really excited to do the third thing and round it out, because ultimately, what I was signing on to was three films. So in my head, it's three films. I think it will feel like the right time to round it out."

But the actress also isn’t completely ruling out showing up somewhere down the line in a similar manner as her co-stars Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill did. "Who knows? I honestly feel like the world may end in the next 30 years, so, if in 30 years we are not living underground in a series of interconnected cells ... then sure," she said. "Maybe." If we keep the planet alive by then, and there are more Star Wars films to be made, then perhaps we’ll get our wish.