I’m honestly pretty surprised that they have unused footage that’s usable, but possibly even more surprised that they’re telling us now and not keeping it a secret - same for Mark Hamill’s return (although I suppose everyone was already suspecting that). Good news all around either way (also nice to see Billie get a mention, hopefully her role will be yet again bigger this time).

I’m truly quite curious what Carrie footage they actually have. Thankfully for them they’ve been fairly mysterious about some of the stuff that got cut out of that film so we won’t necessarily just be seeing deleted scenes we’ve already seen (although that’s certainly possible). Beyond the two scenes released on home video, the only other scene we really know about is what was briefly shown in the trailer (Maz handing her the lightsaber). If I had to guess it’ll just turn out to be a really brief appearance.

Curious about who the two new characters are. Good bets if they’re announced now they’re probably not bit players.

Only slight disappointment for me is that Dan Mindel is back as the DP. Not that I didn’t like his work on TFA (quite the opposite), but I thought it’d be cool to have a different look for each film. Though I’m quite glad Rick Carter is back as co-production designer.