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New JJ Abrams interview!!!!!
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-last-jedi-rian-johnson-jj-abrams-differences/
https://uproxx.com/hitfix/star-wars-episode-9-jj-abrams-the-last-jedi/
https://www.express.co.uk/entertain...to-Last-Jedi-JJ-Abrams-Rian-Johnson-interview
"I had some gut instincts about where the story would have gone. But without getting in the weeds on episode eight, that was a story that Rian wrote and was telling based on seven 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."
Cliffnotes:
-At first he wanted to refuse the offer because it was such a huge undertaking given where TLJ leaves off
-Says he doesn't want to get "into the weeds of Episode VIII" (basically doesn't wanna talk about it)
-His wife convinced him otherwise, and he didn't have time to think, so he took a "leap of faith"
-He felt 2 years wasn't enough, and that it was impossible to write a screenplay because there was "nothing" for him to work with. Not story or outline or script. He says he was basically "starting from scratch"
-He immediately searched for a co-writer thinking it was impossible for him to write this alone
-Says the "lack of complete structure" and lack of "inevitability" have made this ST extremely challenging
-Says he and Chris Terrio were "relentless" about writing their asses off and thinking about how to pull this off, and that it was really hard because of having to cram in so much in what should have been in TLJ (not his words, but the feeling I got from his quote)
-Says he will be 1) CONTINUING where TFA left off by using brain stormed ideas he and Kasdan had in 2014 and 2) RESPONDING to "Episode VIII" (he never refers to Episode VIII by its name, The Last Jedi) specifically he says "We had to respond to Episode VIII" and that "Rian did his thing and took the story in another direction"
-Rian wrote TLJ before ever meeting JJ Abrams
-Says his concerns were a combination of
1. giving bs answers to questions that were impossible to answer
2. having to put "band aids" on wounds (wounds like Luke dying? I don't know)
To end on a high note - he says that
"I know there were many critics of that film" - on TFA
"But this time, I think we may have done it"
New JJ Abrams interview!!!!!
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-last-jedi-rian-johnson-jj-abrams-differences/
https://uproxx.com/hitfix/star-wars-episode-9-jj-abrams-the-last-jedi/
https://www.express.co.uk/entertain...to-Last-Jedi-JJ-Abrams-Rian-Johnson-interview
"I had some gut instincts about where the story would have gone. But without getting in the weeds on episode eight, that was a story that Rian wrote and was telling based on seven 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."
Cliffnotes:
-At first he wanted to refuse the offer because it was such a huge undertaking given where TLJ leaves off
-Says he doesn't want to get "into the weeds of Episode VIII" (basically doesn't wanna talk about it)
-His wife convinced him otherwise, and he didn't have time to think, so he took a "leap of faith"
-He felt 2 years wasn't enough, and that it was impossible to write a screenplay because there was "nothing" for him to work with. Not story or outline or script. He says he was basically "starting from scratch"
-He immediately searched for a co-writer thinking it was impossible for him to write this alone
-Says the "lack of complete structure" and lack of "inevitability" have made this ST extremely challenging
-Says he and Chris Terrio were "relentless" about writing their asses off and thinking about how to pull this off, and that it was really hard because of having to cram in so much in what should have been in TLJ (not his words, but the feeling I got from his quote)
-Says he will be 1) CONTINUING where TFA left off by using brain stormed ideas he and Kasdan had in 2014 and 2) RESPONDING to "Episode VIII" (he never refers to Episode VIII by its name, The Last Jedi) specifically he says "We had to respond to Episode VIII" and that "Rian did his thing and took the story in another direction"
-Rian wrote TLJ before ever meeting JJ Abrams
-Says his concerns were a combination of
1. giving bs answers to questions that were impossible to answer
2. having to put "band aids" on wounds (wounds like Luke dying? I don't know)
To end on a high note - he says that
"I know there were many critics of that film" - on TFA
"But this time, I think we may have done it"
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