‘Star’ warfare

“Star Wars,” Hollywood’s makeor-break year-end franchise, returns next week with “The Last Jedi” — and will, no doubt, pull in $900 million or thereabouts from US moviegoers and become the talk of Greater Nerdistan later this month.

Ahead of the eighth installment of the nine-part George Lucas fantasy on Dec. 15, the media marketing machine is in full roar.

Time Inc.’s Entertainment

Weekly devotes 10 pages and four different covers to tell the “Untold Story” of the film in a pedal-to-themetal effort to give fanboys a satisfying fix before they dress up as their favorite character and line up for opening-night tickets. Wenner Media’s Rolling

Stone, not to be outdone, serves up a “Jedi Confidential” — a seven-page extravaganza woven from interviews with seven actors and directors (including J.J. “Force Awakens” Abrams).

While both magazines put out strong, effective efforts, we think Rolling Stone is the better choice this week. It seems to be written for adult fans while EW sets its sights on bright-eyed middle-schoolers.

For example, Mark Hamill, in talking with EW’s Anthony Breznican about his emotional on-again, off-again relationship with pal and co-star Carrie Fisher, who died last year, says that once they would see each other the harsh feeling from the fights would melt away — and the sentence trails off in an ellipsis.

EW’s editors felt it necessary to add: “He doesn’t finish the sentence, but you know what he means.” D’oh.

Rolling Stone’s senior writer Brian Hiatt paints a more complete picture of the actors in the film and their personal and character’s issues with writer-director Rian Johnson.

While we don’t believe for a second the actors’ words are anything but, you know, acting, it still makes for an interesting read.

Both titles’ stories describe how the film’s Millennium Falcon had this mysterious power over folks on the set.

Hamill, when he got to the cockpit of the Falcon, asked for a moment to be by himself as he was nearly brought to tears, EW reports.

Johnson, too, admits that shooting scenes on the Falcon “nearly brought him to tears,” RS says.