The Smartly-known particular person Wars: The Final Jedi countdown is on

End heading in the precise direction.

It’s been four decades since the distinctive Smartly-known particular person Wars launched us to a galaxy a ways, a ways away, and now the eighth installment in the Skywalker saga will soon be hitting theaters. Author-director Rian Johnson is becoming a member of the series with Smartly-known particular person Wars: The Final Jedi, and with now not up to a month to jog, EW has you lined with a Jedi-particular countdown clock.

The Final Jedi picks up the attach 2015’s The Force Awakens left off, with Rey (Daisy Ridley) coming face to face with the exiled Jedi Luke Skywalker (Model Hamill). John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Gwendoline Christie, Adam Driver, Domhnall Gleeson, and the late Carrie Fisher are all returning for the novel installment, and they’re joined by novel characters performed by Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro, and Kelly Marie Tran.

“The very first step in the writing of this used to be figuring out why [Luke is] on that island,” Johnson suggested EW earlier this 365 days. “Every person is aware of that he’s now not a coward. He’s now not factual hiding on myth of he’s apprehensive. However we additionally know that he must know his visitors are in hazard. He must know the galaxy wants him. And he’s sitting on this island at some stage in nowhere. There wanted to be an acknowledge. It wanted to be something the attach Luke Skywalker believes he’s doing the pleasant factor – and the course of of figuring out what that is and unpacking it is a ways the jog for Rey.”

The clock ends Dec. 15, when The Final Jedi hits theaters. Investigate cross-take a look at all of EW’s Smartly-known particular person Wars protection here.