Rian Johnson is keen on returning to the Star Wars universe, according to new comments shared by the director responsible for 2017’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. Speaking to a Variety correspondent as part of the promotions for his new Knives Out sequel starring Daniel Craig, Glass Onion, Johnson stated that making Star Wars was “the high point” of his life and that he is praying to God for the chance at making another film set in the fantasy world introduced by George Lucas, who directed 1977’s A New Hope and the prequel trilogy but ended up selling Lucasfilm to Disney in October 2012. Critically divisive, The Last Jedi is currently listed with a 91% Tomatometer score and 42% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
#GlassOnion director Rian Johnson says that "making 'Star Wars' was the high point of [his] life": "I pray to God I'll be back there someday." https://t.co/oQGYpLVBOC pic.twitter.com/w22ut9Nfus
— Variety (@Variety) November 15, 2022
The Atlantic suggested that The Last Jedi might be the best Star Wars film since A New Hope in its review of the film from December 2017:
The Last Jedi probably does the best job of any Star Wars film of capturing the allure of the Dark Side and the spiritual turmoil that would lead to—and also result from—its embrace. This was, of course, the central goal of George Lucas’s prequel trilogy, at which it failed utterly, in part because Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker (soon-to-become Vader), was a terrible actor.
The same is not remotely true of Driver or Ridley, who share many of the strongest scenes in the film, even if they are frequently communicating with one another psychically from across the galaxy. The dramatic centerpiece of the film, however, finds them together with the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke (played in yet another motion-capture performance by the maestro of the medium, Andy Serkis).
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Join Discussion →I pray he doesn't
He broke starwars beyond repair.
Oh boy.
This is just pure trolling and fan baiting, to try and keep sw in the conversation. Because there is no movie in the making, and even if they do make one it will be 3 years minimum before it can be released.
I don't think the person responsible for slaughtering the golden goose is the solution.
Rian Johnson can go eat a bag of d!cks. The Last Jedi completely derailed the new trilogy. Force awakens wasn't awesome, but it wasn't horrible either. One could argue the script did it, but he is also credited as a writer so I don't think that holds water.
After the initial viewing that was my thinking as well, but in hindsight I realized that it was indeed horrible, just not as horrible as the last jedi. After force awakens star wars was still salvageable. After Last Jedi it doesn't matter what they do, because I won't watch it. As I did not watch solo and rise of whatever either. I wouldn't even pirate them.
Good. Because if you had, you still would have been ripped off. Waste of your time and Internet bandwidth. The kind of movies where even watching them for free is a bad deal.
Solo's not terrible, if you just view it as a train robbery / heist sci fi flick. Not great, but not terrible.
I hadn't thought of it that way but I agree. I felt it wasn't as bad as the media hype bashing but not great either. Funny, now I feel like watching it again.
I didn't mind Force Awakens and can still occasionally take enjoyment in watching it. TLJ on the other hand, I tried for years to get into it and after every re-watch, I felt it was worse than the time before. Kind of the same for Rise of Skywalker. If I had the time and energy what I'd really like to do is go in and edit parts of both together. I do believe there's a good story to tell but the two movies as is just hurt to try and watch again. Rise of is actually the first SW title I never bought on physical media and I've had multiple versions of everything before it. I got it on Prime during the lockdown and at first enjoyed some of it but now it's on the maybe in a couple more years list if I feel like it.
That's how I felt about Momoa Conan and a few other things at the time before I stopped sailing those seas. It's bad when you get something for free and feel you were robbed of time.
Oddly enough even though Rogue One is my favorite of the new movie projects, I still haven't been able to get into Andor and I've heard great things about it. It's that just every time I try I fall asleep.
It's not bad, but it's another one of those series that would have been much better off if they just made a movie out of it.
Trying to serialize it, it has pacing issues - as you point out. But if it were to have been a 2.5ish movie and cut out a bunch of the fluff they are using just to fill out episode time, it would flow just about right.
I tought the last trilogy was heaps better then the previous one, those were some of the worst castings in the history if cinema.
Haven't seen any of the Disney+ series and films so far, might be soonish if netflix does not improve soon
I kinda agree with this. A lot of things about 1 / 2 / 3 make me cringe, but over all I thought it had a continuity of the story. The last 3 I thought were better movies (that is a low bar) but felt disconnected and recycled, it didn’t feel like part of a continuing series but more like a spin-off or poorly written fan fiction.
None of it was in the same class as the originals though.
At this point, I just can't say one way or another. I suppose each has something but neither makes me want to sit down and watch them again soon.
I did a re-watch of the prequels right around the time Force Awakens came out and it was rough. There are some parts I like a lot but as a whole it's rough.
Just occurred to me that it's like most of the showrunners on Disney+, Netflix, and Amazon are all using Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies as some sort of playbook on what to do instead of what not to do.