With Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery just hitting screens this past few days, it’s probably a good time to report that it seems very, very unlikely that Rian Johnson, once touted to be helming a new Star Wars trilogy, will ever return to that galaxy far, far away.
In a recent interview, the writer/director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi talks a little about his time in the Star Wars universe and how, despite big plans, it seems his trilogy is ‘effectively dead’.
Look, I like Johnson as a writer and director, the Knives out movies are fine, Looper was a superb bit of sci-fi hokum and him being the director of Ozymandias, believed by many to not just be the best episode of Breaking Bad, but of TV shows in general, assure his status as a director of note… his work on Star Wars, however, is a whole different affair.
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Direction-wise, The Last Jedi looks gorgeous and the performances etc are great, however, the story, the destruction of the character of Luke Skywalker and some many more things, means that the movie, meant to subvert fans’ expectations, in fact, almost entirely destroyed Star Wars and, to the day, the franchise is struggling to get back on its feet.
Sorry if you disagree, but this is just the truth of the matter.
“We made that movie [The Last Jedi] in this beautiful, fearless little bubble, and the reality is, once you dive in and start doing the creative work, there isn’t a lot of room in your head for the notion of external pressure,” Johnson said.
Speaking about the feedback he got online, following The Last Jedi, he says that the personal nature of the attacks was something he struggled with: “Having grown up as a Star Wars fan, I think the love and the hate are two sides of the same coin, and it’s all passion for what the thing is. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to deal with when it’s coming at you in a personal way.”
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Look, here’s the deal: I hated The Last Jedi, but I would never attack Johnson personally. I have issues with the movie, but attacking the man himself is utterly reprehensible.
Reporting that his planned trilogy is ‘effectively dead’, Johnson goes on: “A part of my brain will always be in Star Wars. It’s so much a part of me and the way I think.”
I’m delighted to have Johnso out there as a fan, heck, I’d love to talk Star Wars with him someday, but I’d be a liar if I said I’m not glad that he won’t be making more Star Wars movies.
Sorry.
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all.
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Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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