Lupita Nyong'o Still Hasn't Filmed Her STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII Scenes

Rian Johnson wrapped principal photography on the still-untitled Star Wars: Episode VIII a couple of months ago, but one actress still has work to do in a galaxy far, far away. Speaking with Collider at TIFF, Lupita Nyong'o revealed that she hasn't filmed any of her scenes for the upcoming movie yet:

"I haven’t worked with [Rian Johnson] yet; I’ve yet to shoot. That’s in my future."

Nyong'o plays Maz Kanata, the wizened old pirate queen who ran the cantina seen in The Force Awakens. She somehow came into possession of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber (formerly Anakin's), which was passed to Rey and was waiting to be returned to Skywalker in that film's closing moments. Kanata, of course, is created digitally using motion-capture technology, and if Disney/Lucasfilm are truly using Marvel as a model for how to make movies like these (as some have speculated), it seems like a given that there will be time for reshoots built into the production schedule. It's been well-documented how J.J. Abrams basically saved The Force Awakens by reshooting all of Rey and Finn's scenes together late in the game, so it stands to reason that Johnson would have similar time allotted to be able to figure out anything that may not be working in his movie.

In any case, they have plenty of time to film Nyong'o's work, since Star Wars: Episode VIII doesn't hit theaters until December 15, 2017.