Warning: There are some spoilers ahead if you have not seen "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" is finally available to stream and the digital copy of the movie comes with a lot of extra features including deleted scenes and a director's commentary.
INSIDER went through the film's commentary and "The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi," a book which takes a deep dive into the concept art and ideas that went into the four-plus years of making the sequel.
While both don't answer every question we have after seeing the latest installment of "Star Wars," they do shed light on some of the early inspiration for "The Last Jedi."
Keep reading to see what we learned about the making of the movie.
The beginning of the movie was supposed to be completely different.
The film was originally supposed to start with Finn.
"Originally, I had this very clever visual idea where we would come down and find John [Boyega] in the dome, kind of healing bacta suit," director Rian Johnson says in "The Last Jedi" commentary.
The alternate opening, which is available on the film's home release, would have started out with the film tilting down making you think you're seeing the top of a planet. In reality, it's revealed to be a dome that Finn is under. Johnson said it just wasn't necessary.
"I realized as we started actually watching the movie with that opening, it was kind of too clever, and it just took too long," he added. "I realized you just have to get to it as quickly as possible. So we kind of reconfigured this new opening where we just leap into the thick of things."
Rey could have interacted with Luke's old X-wing ship.
One early idea was for Rey to stumble upon Luke's old X-wing in the caves on Ahch-To.
"Rey explores the island, trying to understand Luke's self-imposed exile from the universe. She comes across a cave, sunk at high tide within the base of the island," wrote visual effects art director Kevin Jenkins. "Here she discovers Luke's scuttled T-65 X-wing, rusted and rotting away in the water. It was set alight before it sank. It shows Luke's commitment to his exile, as he destroyed his only means of leaving the planet."
Instead, director Rian Johnson went with designs similar to Skywalker's sunken ship painted by artist Doug Chiang in 2013 off the island's coast.
Luke Skywalker's character was inspired by Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now."
Colonel Kurtz (Brando) is the antagonist of the 1979 movie who goes rogue and is believed to have gone insane. Luke has some parallels to the decorated war officer in "The Last Jedi," in which he's a tortured man cut off from the rest of the world. However, the Master Jedi is able to find peace by the film's end.
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