Star Wars: Episode VII – The Last Jedi writer and director, Rian Johnson, promises that the Porgs will have a role to play in the story of the film.
“I was like, ‘Oh, this is part of the island, we need to find the Star Wars version of this.
However, there has been some criticism from a division of Star Wars fans that Porgs and some of the other notable creatures included in The Last Jedi are either nothing more than marketing decisions by Johnson and Disney, or examples of the film going too far into cute and cuddly territory.
Unless they’ve been living under a rock for the last several months too, every Star Wars fan in the world has heard about the Porgs by now.