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Rian Johnson (Looper, The Last Jedi, Knives Out) on his future Star Wars trilogy: "I'll be thrilled if it happens"
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His non SW movies have been infinitely better. Hopefully for my own personal satisfaction they kill his trilogy. It also didnt help that his SW movie was complete crap.
I'm hoping both are pulled, I'd rather RIan do other stuff and I definitely do not want to watch anything from D&D.
Didn't D&D get some huge netflix deal? That would seem to kill any Star Wars deal, I can't imagine the mouse happy about any of their big name project people working on a huge deal for netflix.
Didn't D&D get some huge netflix deal? That would seem to kill any Star Wars deal, I can't imagine the mouse happy about any of their big name project people working on a huge deal for netflix.
Not surprised---Disney seems to be re-thinking their whole Star Wars strategy. I don't think it says much about Rian one way or the other, or even their opinion on The Last Jedi.
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Yeah the last sentence in the article says he could just be playing coy (kinda like Matt Smith being in TROS).
I read this more as Disney scaling back their Star Wars volume than some sort of indictment on Rian Johnson.
Are you kidding? Fincher would never be able to complete a SW film with the level of studio oversight they receive. He'd be out due to creative differences in a month.
Pretty much my take. My opinion of TLJ has only grown more sour over time, but I still like his other work and I think his "style" would really benefit from him having creative control over his own trilogy.
Depending on which one of the trilogies was already slated for release in the coming years it does make sense to kill the other. Realistically only one of those is gonna be happening when we already have a Disney+ show coming too and they've become aware that they put out too much too fast.
If he was able to get his SW movie out without "creative difference", peeps will still go "fincher ruined SW for me".
also, I think Fincher's great, but he's kind of a cold, clinical, humorless director, and it's hard to see how he'd work with a universe as fundamentally silly as SW.
I don't see it happening as much as I want it to, LucasFilm seems to be heading in a more safe area with Feige coming on (which is understandable considering they "tried" working with auteurs like Lord and Miller and ended up firing them, Gareth Edwards needed reshoots for Rogue One to work, etc.). I wonder if D&D will do a trilogy or just stick to the one movie, considering how much of a pariah both of them are these days.
Yes, because at the end of the day I think it's a stupid thing to constantly complain about.
Am I looking forward to their films? Not really, but I'm not going to bring it up in every post in every thread where they're the focus like some people do with Rian.
Given how much Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm as a whole loved working with Rian, he'll get his trilogy.
That's kind of the problem. The spinoff films should have been smaller budget, more creative control.
every fucking movie needed reshoots, so i dont know why the single out Edwards
Edwards needed heavy, heavy reshoots and was barely involved in the final cut of the movie. The entire third act was essentially ghost-directed by Tony Gilroy.
I meant to add they needed to hire another director to finish his movie and keep it under wraps.
I love TLJ (second favorite of the series behind ROTJ, obviously I like the more wacky humor and nutty fantasy concepts the most) so would be thrilled to see him get another shot, but most of all it is very puzzling seeing how Star Wars planning under disney has been so haphazard. Retcons, director changes, mystery, weird spinoffs..... not exactly MCU levels of organization here
well, the director in qustion could be under NDA and shit like that, son only time will tell
I wonder if Disney is just waiting to see how well TROS does, especially internationally, before they commit to anymore films.
It makes sense. GoT was still a huge success, and it's better to market on that while GoT still ended somewhat recently.
I assume Disney is waiting to see just how much money Episode IX rakes in to determine if they jump right into another SWs trilogy or put those plans on ice for a year or two.
They can always fall back on all of the TV shows they are making in the SWs universe to keep interest high in future films.
They can always fall back on all of the TV shows they are making in the SWs universe to keep interest high in future films.
It's years away either way, it's not like they're striking while the iron is hot.
I remember the same confidence from Neil Blomkamp about his Alien project when it first came out and eventually having less and less confidence in the project happening before finally being put to rest.
I'm not your son, first off. FOH with all that trash.
Secondly, he and LFL were talking openly about the prospects of future projects and now the language has altered.
i think some random the last jedi hater had a monkey paw: no rian trilogy, get d&d trilogy instead.
NDA would not stop him from selling his film to the press and generating good publicity. It's only supposed to stop people from going Josh Trank and shitting on a film. That he's saying "if" at all speaks volumes. It means Disney hasn't fully committed yet to his trilogy.
Feels like you're projecting a bit. Blomkamp has had more failed projects than completed movies. Rian has...never had a failed project.
If the schedule we saw is any indication, as in one movie each in 2022/2024/2026, Rian Johnson probably wouldn't start production on his own Star Wars movies until 2025. That'd give him a few years to work on a trilogy releasing in 2028/2030/2032.
So I wouldn't say it's dead, just that nobody is going to have anything set in stone that ain't happening for half a dozen years. There's just no point making plans that far ahead. Disney will presumably get back to him in like four or five years to discuss Johnson's movies, but right now they're obviously more focused on whatever it is D&D is cooking up.
