Of the many elements fans are absolutely itching to see in The Last Jedi, a reunion of Luke and Leia, twins who were separated in Revenge of the Sith, reunited as siblings in Return of the Jedi and pulled apart in the years between Jedi and The Force Awakens, ranks high among them.
It’s not known if they reunite in The Last Jedi, or if there is any contact at all, but we can but hope.
Although they are pictured together on EW’s cover, one of the questions of The Last Jedi is whether Luke and Leia will find each other again within the story.
“Luke longs to have that extended family that he established in the original trilogies, but now he’s at a place in his life and in his history where he’s shunned all of that,” Mark Hamill says. “The big question is why didn’t he respond to Leia during [The Force Awakens]? There’s a lot of things you can’t answer until you see this movie.”
Carrie Fisher’s unexpected death last year makes The Last Jedi even more poignant, since her performance inevitably marks the last of Leia — at least on screen. Lucasfilm has said they will not be recreating her to resolve the princess-turned-general’s storyline.
