Early Stocking Stuffer: Win Free Tickets to Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens nationwide today
• Expected to be the highest grossing film of 2017
• Trivia contest winner receives two free tickets for show tomorrow

It’s time to return to that galaxy far, far away. We’re talking, of course, about the highly anticipated arrival of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, opening nationwide today. Industry experts predict that this weekend alone the film could rack up a domestic box office gross of over $200 million, making it only the fourth film ever to achieve that figure, along with The Avengers, Jurassic World, and 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Disney, the studio releasing The Last Jedi, has high hopes that it will outperform its 2015 predecessor, which grossed over $2 billion worldwide to become the second highest grossing film of all time.

In this follow-up to The Force Awakens, scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) is now the protégé of Luke Skywalker (played once again by Mark Hamill). Rey and Luke train together in the hope of defeating the First Order and its evil leader, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Rounding out the cast are returning actors Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron and John Boyega as Finn, as well as Star Wars newcomers Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro.

BU Today is celebrating the film’s release with a trivia contest. Our lucky winner will receive two tickets to a screening tomorrow night, Saturday, December 16, at Regal Fenway Stadium 13.

To enter, answer the questions below and email them to today@bu.edu by 1 pm today, Friday, December 15. Don’t forget to include your phone number, email address, and BU affiliation. Each person answering all questions correctly will be entered in a drawing for two tickets to tomorrow’s showing of Star Wars: The Last Jedi at 7 pm at Regal Fenway Stadium 13, 201 Brookline Ave., Boston.

We’ll notify the winner and announce the name on BU Today by 2 pm, so be sure to check this afternoon. Good luck—and may the force be with you.

1. A number of major Hollywood actors have had cameo roles as Stormtroopers in Star Wars movies. Which actor playing a Stormtroooper, best known for his role as a spy, helps Rey escape in 2015’s The Force Awakens?

2. Daisy Ridley returns as Luke Skywalker’s young protégé Rey, potentially the last Jedi. Despite rumors to the contrary, Ridley lost the video game explorer role in what Hollywood blockbuster to Oscar winner Alicia Vikander?

3. John Boyega’s Finn, a Stormtrooper turned hero in The Force Awakens, reputedly plays a key role in The Last Jedi. In the upcoming sequel to Pacific Rim, Boyega stars as Jake, the on-screen son of Stacker Pentecost, played by which leading British actor?

4. Oscar Isaac, who plays Resistance pilot Poe Dameron in the new film, achieved his Hollywood breakthrough playing a fictional 1960s folk singer. What was his name? 

5. Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro, one of the film’s villains, was originally cast to play which double-edged antagonist in what earlier Star Wars film?

6. The Star Wars franchise is noted for using production code names rather than movie titles during filming to hide details from overeager fans and reporters. What was The Last Jedi’s production name?

7. Mark Hamill plays the heroic Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films and has also been the longtime voice of which chaotic bad guy in numerous animated superhero films and TV shows?

8. The Last Jedi marks the final film appearance of this legendary actress, who died last December, shortly after completing her work on the movie. Name her.

9. The mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke is played by an actor who is one of Hollywood’s most touted motion-capture experts. Who is he?

10. What is the name of the new species of creature seen riding with Chewbacca in The Last Jedi trailers?

Catch the trailer for The Last Jedi here.