Director Rian Johnson has mentioned why his deliberate Star Wars trilogy didn’t work out in a brand new interview.
The filmmaker helmed Star Wars: The Final Jedi in 2018, the divisive eighth episode on the franchise, and previous to that movie’s launch was scheduled to make a standalone trilogy for the franchise. That plan by no means got here to fruition, nonetheless, with Johnson revealing that the success of Knives Out in 2019 meant he was pulled in a special route.
“Nothing actually occurred with it,” he advised Rolling Stone. “We had a good time working collectively, they usually stated, ‘Let’s maintain doing it.’ I stated, ‘Nice!’ I’d kick concepts round with Kathy (Kennedy, head of Lucasfilm). The brief model is Knives Out occurred. I went off and made Knives Out, and was off to the races, busy making homicide mysteries”.
Concerning the main points of the plot, he stated it was “all very conceptual” and that there was no “define or a therapy or something”. When discussing any involvement within the franchise sooner or later, Johnson stated: “It’s the type of factor if, down the road, there’s a chance to do it, or do one thing else in Star Wars, I’d be thrilled. However proper now, I’m simply doing my very own stuff, and fairly joyful”.
Rian Johnson’s subsequent undertaking with be Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, the third a part of his thriller franchise starring Daniel Craig. The movie was just lately introduced because the opening film of this 12 months’s London Movie Pageant.
There haven’t been any Star Wars movies since 2019’s The Rise Of Skywalker, though the universe has expanded in that point on tv with exhibits like Andor, Ashoka, and Skeleton Crew. New movies are on the way in which, nonetheless, with The Mandalorian And Grogu set for 2026, and the just lately introduced Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling, set for 2027.
Earlier this month, Star Wars legend Mark Hamill shared his darkish pitch for a publish Return Of The Jedi Luke Skywalker story.