Episode 8 of the Star Wars saga is due out in three months’ time, and fans have long been suspicious that there is more to the mysterious villain’s identity than meets the eye.
Speaking in a new interview with The New York Times, Johnson joked that Snoke is someone very familiar indeed.
When the interview cheekily asked if Han Solo (Harrison Ford) returns as a Force Ghost, Johnson joked: “Han Solo as a Force ghost, obviously.
“And Jar Jar, he’s Snoke. Everything I’m dropping is gold, right here.”
Jar Jar Binks is, of course, perhaps the most maligned Star Wars character ever.
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The Gungan, played by Ahmed Best, had a pivotal role in Episode I: The Phantom Menace, before fierce fan backlash forced him into less prominence.
Obviously Johnson was not being serious when he identified the character as Snoke’s alias, but it seems that we won’t be finding out who Snoke is at all in Episode 8.
Likening him to Emperor Palpatine, he told Empire: “We got the whole story of Palpatine’s rise to power in the prequels, but in the original films he’s exactly what he needs to be, which is just ‘the Emperor’.
“He’s a dark force: the scary thing behind the thing. That was entirely how I approached Snoke.”
He added: “I wasn’t interested in explaining where he came from or telling his history, except where it serves this story.”
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is out on December 14.