It was recently announced that Star Wars Episode VIII would be titled (subtitled? sub-subtitled?) The Last Jedi. Given the quality of recent installments in the franchise, and the return of both Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher (whose scenes were all shot before she passed away), there’s plenty to be excited about.
Even better, we at BrianDBuckley.com can now exclusively reveal this list of alternate titles for Episode VIII, all of which were very close contenders for the final name.
- The Ocho
- Master Skywalker or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dark Side
- Gungan Style
- There Is Literally No Title We Could Choose Which Would Cause You to Not Buy Tickets
- The Force Gets Sleepy Again
- C-3PO and Jar Jar’s Ewok Hijinks
- Oh No It Is a Spherical Superweapon
- Rey Doesn’t Like Sand Either but She’s Not Getting All Whiny About It
- We Ship Kylo Rey
- The First Order Retaliates (A Totally Original Storyline Bearing No Resemblance to The Empire Strikes Back)
- Let’s Talk About Midi-chlorians
- Kylo Ren Recites Some Poetry that Got a Really Positive Response on Deviantart
- The Hanukkah Special
- Title’); DROP TABLE Titles;–
- Our Screenwriter Quit but We Found Some Pretty Good Fan Fiction
- Pride and Prejudice and Droids
- Han Solo’s Resurrection and Immediate Second Death
- That’s Not How the Force Works
- The Plural of ‘Jedi’ Is ‘Jedi’ Okay?
- Whatever Fan Site Had ‘Finn Is Secretly Snoke,’ Good Job, You Guys Nailed It
- The Non-Canon Adventures of Sith Lord BB-8 and His Apprentice Poe
- The Penultimate Jedi
My favorite is “That’s Not How The Force Works.”
That was also one of my favorite lines from the movie. 🙂