Star Wars: The Last Jedi Had Poe Going With Finn To Canto Bight, Not Rose

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson might have told fans that Poe (Oscar Isaacs) wouldn't be joining Finn (John Boyega) and Rose's (Kelly Marie Tran) mission in The Force Awakens sequel, however it seems like the filmmaker actually had the Resistance pilot tag along in the mission to Canto Bight in an earlier draft of the movie.

According to Johnson's quote in The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (via Screen Rant), he actually had Poe and Finn working together to obtain the master code breaker in Canto Bight in an earlier draft of the movie. However, the director/screenwriter decided to switch things up after realizing that the film ought to take a different direction.

"Poe originally went on the journey with Finn to Canto Bight. And it was boring. It was just these two dudes on an adventure. I knew something was wrong when I looked at their dialogue and realized I could interchange any of the lines. There wasn't conflict between them. So I realized I had to come up with something else. Finn needing somebody else to go with who would actually challenge him and push him and contrast with him was where Rose came from."

And challenge Finn she did. Rose might have been a new face, but she did play a significant role in the film, helping the stormtrooper-turned-Resistance-fighter learn how to keep his ground instead of running away.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is currently screening in cinemas.

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