J.J Abrams opened up in a new interview about Star Wars: Episode IX following Rian Johnson’s controversial film, The Last Jedi.
Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi has notoriously left fans divided. One of the more controversial parts of The Last Jedi was the answer to Rey’s parentage. However, some fans believe J.J Abrams will retcon Rian Johnson’s choices in Episode IX. According to a new interview from FastCompany, J.J. Abrams seems keen on continuing The Last Jedi plot points in Episode IX and finish the Skywalker Saga:
“Without getting in the weeds on episode eight, that was a story that Rian wrote and was telling based on VII before we met. So he was taking the thing in another direction. So we also had to respond to Episode VIII. So our movie was not just following what we had started, it was following what we had started and then had been advanced by someone else. So there was that, and, finally, it was resolving nine movies.”
J.J. Abrams also talked about the huge challenge of not having a overall plan for the sequel trilogy as he concludes it:
“While there are some threads of larger ideas and some big picture things that had been conceived decades ago and a lot of ideas that Lawrence Kasdan and I had when we were doing Episode VII, the lack of absolute inevitability, the lack of a complete structure for this thing, given the way it was being run was an enormous challenge.”
J.J. Abrams is the only director next to George Lucas to direct multiple Star Wars films. However, Rian Johnson will join that company after he finishes Knives Out and begins work on a new trilogy of films.
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Directed by J. J. Abrams, Star Wars: Episode IX stars Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, Billie Lourd, Naomi Ackie, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Billy Dee Williams. Carrie Fisher will appear as General Leia Organa through the use of previously unreleased footage shot for The Force Awakens.
Star Wars: Episode IX opens in theaters on December 19, 2019.
The title and teaser for Star Wars: Episode IX is expected to be revealed later this week. Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for all the news from Star Wars Celebration this weekend!
Source: FastCompany
