Rian Johnson Explains Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Didn’t Touch Snoke’s Identity

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

Star Wars fans had a lot of questions after Star Wars: The Force Awakens' premiere and one of the burning mysteries that they were hoping to find answers in The Last Jedi was Snoke's true identity.

There were so many crazy Snoke fan theories circulating around the internet before the release of The Force Awakens sequel, from theories that the Supreme Leader was actually a wrinkled version of Lord Sidious to theories that he was actually Jar Jar Binks.

However, The Last Jedi refused to give fans any concrete answer, instead having Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) kill off his master in the ultimate act of betrayal

Sitting down to speak with Cinema Blend, The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson decided to explain why he left the topic of Snoke's identity untouched in his Star Wars film.

"In terms of the identity of Snoke, again, I wrote the script while they were shooting [The Force Awakens], so I wrote it before all of the 'Who is Snoke' theories started coming up," the filmmaker explained. "Which I love, and I think it's a huge... and also, what I'm about to say as to why I didn't address [his origins] in this movie. I don't want to imply that that's not interesting, or that's not cool, or it doesn't matter. I think, who knows, they might address it in Episode IX. They might address it elsewhere."

According to Johnson, he didn't really need to explain Snoke's true identity in his Star Wars movie, because the story didn't simply need him to.

"What I knew was that in this film, similar to with the Emperor in the original trilogy, it's just not what this story is about," Johnson said. "And the Emperor in the original trilogy, you know nothing about him. Because you don't have to! It's not what it's about. ... The Emperor is in two [scenes] of the movie, and you know everything that you need to know about him. It's the exact same thing in this trilogy. As opposed to the prequels, where you know everything about him because you need to. Because that's the story."

We wonder whether J.J. Abrams might even think of revealing Snoke's identity seeing how the spotlight's all on Kylo Ren now, but it's still possible. We'll just have to wait and see.

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

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