Warning: There are some spoilers ahead for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
There are a lot of surprises, celebrity cameos, and Easter eggs in "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." One of the smaller details you may have missed was a big nod to Han Solo.
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When Luke Skywalker boards the Millennium Falcon for the first time in years, he takes in everything on the old ship. Specifically, he's drawn to a pair of gold dice hanging up.
The dice then make the rounds throughout the end of the film. They're seen several times as Han's old pal Luke delivers them to his sister, Leia, on the planet of Crait. Eventually, they're picked up by Han's son Ben (Adam Driver) inside the Resistance base before eventually fading away into the ether.
Though the dice were very much real when Luke found them, the pair we see toward the end of the film weren't a real, physical item. They were just an elaborate hologram Luke was able to project onto Crait while he was far away on another planet.
If you're not familiar with the tchotchke, you may wonder the significance of the dice. Obviously, there's a connection to Han Solo since they were on his Millennium Falcon, but there's a greater significance to the dice you may not have realized that links to "Star Wars" creator George Lucas himself.
What's the deal with the gold dice?
The gold dice were only seen in 1977's original "Star Wars" movie briefly. They were in a small scene aboard the Millennium Falcon as Chewie bumps his head boarding the ship.
The dice were placed there as a nod to director George Lucas' earlier movie with Harrison Ford, "American Graffitti."
The dice didn't appear in any of the other original "Star Wars" movies, but turned up in 2015's "The Force Awakens" briefly.
According to Pablo Hidalgo, a member of the Lucasfilm Story Group, the dice were integrated into "Star Wars" lore. Solo supposedly won the Millennium Falcon with those dice.
"The story that you would hear if you traveled to cantinas or watering holes around the Star Wars galaxy," Hidalgo told Vanity Fair. "... is that those dice were involved in a game of Corellian Spike—a dice-using version of a card game called sabacc. Rumor has it Han won the Millennium Falcon [from Lando Calrissian] with those dice. Whether or not that’s just bar talk, I can’t say."
Since there isn't a funeral for Han in "The Last Jedi," the passing of the dice from Luke to Leia and then Ben feels like a small way for the family to cope with and acknowledge Solo's passing.
On a larger scale, maybe it's Disney's way of parting with "Star Wars" creator George Lucas as well.
It's also possible that "The Last Jedi" purposefully made sure those dice were front and center for its Han Solo spin-off movie scheduled for 2018. Don't surprised if we see them again in "Solo: A Star Wars Story."
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