Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Final Jedi director Rian Johnson has a candid response relating to Kathleen Kennedy’s claims about his relationship with the franchise. Johnson’s 2017 entry within the saga was infamously divisive with audiences, and Kennedy just lately advised that this response is why the filmmaker hasn’t returned to make extra Star Wars motion pictures.
“He received spooked by the web negativity,” Kennedy advised Deadline in an interview that accompanied the information she was departing as Lucasfilm president. Johnson evidently would not agree with the chief, as he took to X to reply, writing: “lol zero spooked, sorry.” Take a look at his put up under:
Kennedy additionally attributes Johnson’s lack of a return to Star Wars to the filmmaker’s take care of Netflix to write down and direct two further Knives Out movies, the second of which, Wake Up Lifeless Man (2025), launched in December. The manager went on to reward Johnson’s work in a galaxy far, far, away, saying:
I believe Rian made top-of-the-line Star Wars motion pictures. He’s an excellent filmmaker and he received spooked. That is the tough half. When individuals come into this house, I’ve each filmmaker and actors say to me, “What’s going to occur?” They’re a bit scared.
The Final Jedi might now stand as one of the vital divisive Star Wars motion pictures, nevertheless it was nonetheless a large hit. The movie grossed over $1.332 billion worldwide, making the second-highest grosser of Disney’s sequel trilogy.
Although some viewers took problem with the movie’s therapy of legacy characters, notably Mark Hamill’s Luke, and its subversion of franchise traditions, The Final Jedi opinions have been usually optimistic from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie enjoys a powerful 91% critics’ rating, a serious leap up from the 41% Popcornmeter.
The success of this center installment within the sequel trilogy, which follows new characters Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), and Poe (Oscar Isaac) as they face off towards Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the evil First Order, led to information that Johnson would helm a separate Star Wars trilogy. Years handed with seemingly no progress, nonetheless, and the trilogy was declared “successfully lifeless” in a THR report final November.
Regardless of Johnson’s current put up, there do not seem like any agency plans for him to revisit Star Wars anytime quickly. Along with toying with concepts for a possible Knives Out 4, the filmmaker advised Empire final fall that his subsequent mission “harkens again to the ’70s paranoid thrillers,” and that it options “a lightweight sci-fi aspect to it.”
Nonetheless, Johnson just lately advised THR: “Part of my mind will at all times be in Star Wars. It’s a lot part of me and the way in which I believe.” Although the filmmaker might not be imminently returning to the world of the hit Disney franchise, it is clear that the response to Star Wars: The Final Jedi has not scared him away from probably revisiting the IP sooner or later.
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December 13, 2017
- Runtime
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152 minutes
- Producers
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Kathleen Kennedy, Ram Bergman, Leifur B. Dagfinnsson