This weekend isStar WarsDay , and one room Lucasfilm is celebrating the occasion is the announcement of a new book . Unlike more recent ones coif around theOriginal Trilogy , this one take in us to the Sequel zone — specifically , toFinn .
accord to a recentPenguin Random Houseposting , the x - Stormtrooper play byJohn Boyegain the picture show will be the lead inThe Last Order . Written by Kwame Mbalia ( Tristan Strong plug a Hole in the Sky ) , the YA book will see Finn and Jannah fromRise of Skywalkerhunt down a First Order officer responsible for kidnapping kids to commute them into future soldiers . During their journeying to find this someone , the pair will “ wrestle with their own complicated pasts as soldiers of the oppressive regime . ”
If it ’s been awhile since you ’ve seenRise , that movie cease with a tease of Jannah ( Naomi Ackie ) and Lando teaming up with Lando to happen her family . It ’s never been clear if Lucasfilm ever intended to follow through on that with Lando ’s in - flux movie / goggle box show , but that ribbon may continue here , ditto mark Finn ’s own past . Recall he ’s the only member ofStar Wars’sequel triple whose backstory was n’t fleshed out like Rey and Poe ’s . If this is the way to take out two razzing with one Harlan F. Stone , and also give an idea of where Finn ’s at with hisForce training , we ’re all for it .
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According to Penguin ’s itemization , Star Wars : The Last Orderreleases October 21 .
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