With the much anticipated premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s teaser, fans have been in a frenzy searching for clues and details worth pulling from the trailer. Surprisingly, what many noticed wasn’t references to the galaxy far, far away that they missed but parallels with an unexpected trailer: DC’s Man of Steel.
At first the similarities seem obvious when looking at the story material. Both Rey and Superman (in Man of Steel) follow a similar story arc. Orphans guided with their new found powers by a wise mentor. Simple enough. But the similarities continue cinematically and in both trailers musical scores.
Screen Rant has put together a re-edit of the Last Jedi’s trailer with the score of the 2nd trailer for Man of Steel and the results are astonishing (video linked below). The visuals of Jedi follow the orchestral score as it rises, falls and punctuates with the emotional beats. Screen Rant lists the parallels.
“-Martha Kent’s (Diane Lane) line, “Focus on my voice. Pretend it’s an island, out in the ocean” as The Last Jedi reveals exactly that, Luke Skywalker’s home on Ahch-To.
-The question of “what Clark did,” as Rey shows off her power to manipulate matter around her, as Clark later can.
-Young Clark asking if keeping his powers secret truly means letting those die whom he could save… as the Last Jedi reveals General Leia observing a starship’s control console, played by the late Carrie Fisher.
-Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) wondering in response if letting some die for a greater good actually would be best… as Kylo Ren’s smashed helmet lies smoking.
-Clark (Henry Cavill) stating “I have so many questions…” as a beam of light illuminates what we believes to be Luke Skywalker’s prized Jedi books of wisdom, which he will use to teach Rey the ways of The Force.
-Clark asking “where do I come from?” as a hand, believed to be Luke’s, reaches out to touch the ancient symbol of the first Jedi, suggesting this book may actually be ‘The Journal of The Whills,’ an ancient book literally explaining where the Jedi came from.”
Screen Rant posits that they’ve made no additional edits to the video other than 20 seconds trimmed off the beginning of Man of Steels trailer to sync with the crescendo of its MoS’s score.
The Last Jedi’s director Rian Johnson nor Lucasfilm have commented on the commonalities with Supermans debut in the DC Extended Universe. With eight months to go before the world gets to see Episode VIII for themselves, speculation will undoubtedly only snowball from here. Star Wars: The Last Jedi debuts on December 15, 2017.
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