The Last Jedi: 15 things we know about the new Star Wars movie

13. The Last Jedi is 151 minutes long

The exact run time of The Last Jedi has been announced and it’s going to be a marathon, not a sprint. At two hours and 31 minutes, it is going to be the longest Star Wars film ever, outrunning the second longest movie Attack of the Clones by around ten minutes.

But don’t let this similarity to the prequels dishearten you. Whilst it is the first Star Wars film to exceed two and a half hours, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be overlong.

As Inverse point out, it actually leaves a lot more room for telling the story properly. It also potentially means a lot of loose ends from The Force Awakens are going to at least get tighter, if not cut off completely, to pave the way for the conclusion in 2019.

Both Ridley and Johnson have hinted that the film will be fairly contained, despite being second part of a trilogy.

The Last Jedi will also feature the fewest wipe scene transitions of any other Star Wars movie. Johnson tweeted that the film with the most wipes was Episode I: The Phantom Menace, with 55, but The Last Jedi will have just 12.

Does this mean longer scenes? Or is it as simple as just less wipe transitions? The Force Awakens was previously bringing up the rear with 14 and it didn’t seem to affect scene length. But with a longer run time, and a lot of plot to pack in, perhaps there’s less scene-jumping than we’ve had in previous installments.

Or perhaps it’s a tonal thing. As Slashfilm notes, Rogue One had no wipe transitions at all, distancing itself as a spin-off as opposed to a Skywalker Saga movie. Who knows?

Maybe we’re reading too much into it but we think there’s no such thing.