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‘The Last Jedi’: A shot-by-shot breakdown of this fascinating new ‘Star Wars’ galaxy

So you’ve seen the pants-wettingly good new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and you’re probably wondering what all of it means. Well, luckily for you, we spent plenty of time reading Star Wars tie-in novels and visual guides (and also getting plenty of wedgies) in our youth and are here to break it down for you.

Here’s a slideshow of all of the important stuff we’ve gleaned from a scant two minutes of footage, and there’s a lot of it! Jump down to the bottom to revisit the teaser trailer and its very-cool poster.

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Luke tells Rey (and the audience) to breathe, set over a number of establishing shots of the island on Ahch-To, the planet in which he journeyed to in order to find the First Jedi Temple and the secrets within it. That name (via Cinemablend) comes from the novelization of The Force Awakens and is confirmed to be the site of the Temple mentioned. In reality, it’s the beautiful Skellig Michael in Ireland, and the scenes were filmed at the ruins of a Christian monastery.

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