New Last Jedi Clip Revisits Luke, Yoda and the Jedi Past
An official clip published November 9, 2026, returns to Luke’s hesitation over the Jedi texts—and the master who still has something to teach him.
The short answer: An official clip published November 9, 2026, returns to Luke’s hesitation over the Jedi texts—and the master who still has something to teach him.
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Luke Skywalker is ready to burn the sacred Jedi texts. Following through is another matter. As he hesitates, Yoda’s Force ghost appears: the former student is once again face-to-face with his teacher. That encounter is the focus of an official Star Wars: The Last Jedi clip published by Star Wars on November 9, 2026.
Spoilers follow for the Luke–Yoda scene in The Last Jedi. The newly published clip revisits an existing moment from the 2017 film, returning to Luke’s struggle with the past—and with what he still has to teach.
A teacher who still needs a teacher
Luke’s hesitation carries the weight of his failure with Ben Solo. As StarWars.com’s “From a Certain Point of View” essay recounts, Luke has withdrawn from the Force and become disillusioned with the Jedi. On Ahch-To, he approaches the sacred tree intending to burn it and the ancient books inside—but cannot complete the act. Yoda intervenes, summoning lightning that destroys the tree.
The essay reads Yoda’s lesson as an invitation to accept failure and learn from it, rather than violently erase what came before. In that reading, the encounter turns Luke’s attention from what went wrong with Ben toward what he can still offer Rey. Teaching and mentoring become a way forward: acknowledging failure without letting it end the possibility of helping someone else.
That teacher–student dynamic has deep roots for Mark Hamill. Reflecting on The Empire Strikes Back in an interview with StarWars.com, the Luke actor described how Yoda helped deepen the story:
One of the things that was such a great joy to discover when I read Empire Strikes Back is that it was deeper. It was more cerebral, it was more spiritual. A lot of that had to do with Yoda and his philosophies. Mark Hamill, speaking to StarWars.com
The people behind the reunion
For writer-director Rian Johnson, Luke’s isolation was a starting point inherited from The Force Awakens. Speaking to StarWars.com ahead of The Last Jedi’s theatrical release, Johnson explained that he began with the characters’ existing circumstances, including Luke’s decision to remove himself from the fight. He wanted the continuation to follow logically from those choices and make emotional sense from the characters’ perspectives.
The reunion also brought back Frank Oz, who first performed Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and returned for The Last Jedi. StarWars.com’s account of the making-of documentary The Director and the Jedi describes Hamill watching Oz rehearse with the Yoda puppet for the first time—a glimpse of the performers behind the familiar teacher and student.
Oz’s D23 profile offers his own perspective on what makes Yoda more than a recognizable sound. Asked whether he tires of bad impressions of the character, he distinguished imitating a voice from bringing a character to life:
But people don’t understand; anyone can do a voice. It’s not the voice—it’s the soul. Frank Oz, quoted in his D23 profile