Unlike 'Star Trek,' not everyone is provided for in 'Star Wars,' and the galaxy is still replete with cycles of fascism, institutionalized slavery, and exploitation.

It looked very much like a film premiere on a distant world, but wasn't so alien that the very human audience wouldn't be able to recognize it as a casino in an instant. The final sequence is sprawling and unique in the 'Star Wars' canon. They're very particular about the look, and we've got models, we've got people that have been dancers because of their profile and how they can stand. 'We're doing a casting day for the casino scene. She needed to find actors and performers who matched pre-existing character designs, making for fewer opportunities to follow her own instincts sadly, she wasn't able to cast according to her whim. Ryan noted that her job was a lot more regimented than Kaplan's, perhaps making it just as difficult, just for different reasons. Finding the scads and scads of alien billionaires was no easy task for them, and Johnson gave scant direction. The film's costume designer Mike Kaplan, and its second AD in charge of crowds Jane Ryan, appear on camera to commiserate about the difficulties they all encountered in shooting the Canto Bight scenes. This is how the idle rich spend their time in 'Star Wars.'Īccording to the 'Last Jedi' making-of documentary, now available on Disney+, Canto Bight was made to look like certain real casinos in Florida or Las Vegas. There are card games played with poker chips, slot machines, and roulette.

A lot of the gaming at Canto Bight seems to resemble activities we have on Earth in the 21st century.

There are seemingly hundreds of people in the Canto Bight sequence, each of them wearing alien high fashion, gambling with oblique currencies, and enjoying Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters. Johnson depicted the wealthy class as bored, ultra-stylish gamblers who inhabit a massive galaxy-famous casino called Canto Bight.

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