Star Wars Rise of Skywalker actor hints at Chewbacca’s future

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker seems to be like it will likely be a farewell for the principle bunch of Rebels and Resistance fighters as Disney plans to shift the main target of future motion pictures to different occasions and locations within the galaxy far, far-off.

But here is the factor: Wookiees can reside to be upwards of 400 years previous, whereas droids do not age in any respect. So does that imply that we might see characters like Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 in future motion pictures or collection like The Mandalorian?

Well, possibly.

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Actor Joonas Suotamo – who took over the position of Chewbacca from Peter Mayhew within the sequel trilogy, in addition to in Solo: A Star Wars Story – not too long ago spoke to Radio Times about Chewie’s Star Wars future.

“Well, we’re going to have to wait and see,” he teased. “I would love to see Chewie more, but everything depends on this next film and the story.”

What will we reckon? Can we be quietly optimistic that we’ll see Chewie once more, or will The Rise of Skywalker even be our goodbye to the lovable fuzzball?

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Speaking about The Rise of Skywalker extra usually, Joonas continued: “It’s an incredible story, and we’re gonna have to attend till December to see what that is all about.

“Everyone’s again collectively, they are going on an incredible journey collectively, going through the ever-growing hazard from the First Order. And that is gonna be one thing to see.”

Earlier this week, Star Wars followers got a primary have a look at Keri Russell’s new character Zorri Bliss as a part of the franchise’s Triple Force Friday preview occasion.

“I am unable to wait so that you can meet Zorri,” Keri said earlier this year. “She’s very cool and a bit bit shady. She’s sort of a legal and kind of this previous buddy of Poe’s.”

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has a launch date of Thursday, December 19 within the UK and Friday, December 20 within the US.

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