{"id":4535,"date":"2019-02-14T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2019-02-19T04:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T04:35:40","slug":"rian-johnson-responds-to-rumors-his-new-star-wars-movies-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/rian-johnson-star-wars-movie-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rian Johnson Responds To Rumors His New ‘Star Wars’ Movies Are Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Important internet safety tip: When it comes to Star Wars<\/em>, don’t believe everything you read.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, rumors echoed like the cries of Alderaan’s people pre-Death Star destruction thanks to rumors on Twitter and a website called SuperMovieBros that took those rumors and reported director Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em>) and his new\u00a0Star Wars<\/em> trilogy were no more. The now-deleted<\/a> post also reported that Johnson was stepping away from the films to develop other projects.<\/p>\n

An intrepid fan reached out to Johnson on Twitter to clarify if the report was true, and Johnson responded with a classy “No, it’s not.”<\/p>\n

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No it isn\u2019t true, I\u2019m still working on the trilogy. With all due respect to the movie bros, who I\u2019m sure are lovely kind bros with good fraternal intentions.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) February 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite some controversy that sparked in certain corners of the internet’s echo chamber regarding particular narrative and casting choices in\u00a0TLJ<\/em>, Lucasfilm tapped Johnson to create a new trilogy\u00a0with the intent to introduce audiences to brand new locations and characters. Those films are being developed along with the ones written by\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/em> showrunners\u00a0David Benioff\u00a0and\u00a0D.B. Weiss. The latter, however, are independent of whatever stories Johnson is shaping.<\/p>\n

For a filmmaker at Johnson’s level to take the time and respond directly to a rumor like this \u2013 reported by a less-than-credible publication (it is what it is) \u2013 that’s a big deal. Fans have recently crept passed the point of obsessive behavior regarding the current state and future of\u00a0the\u00a0Star Wars<\/em> franchise, thanks to recent behind-the-scenes shake-ups and mixed reactions to The<\/em>\u00a0Last Jedi.<\/em><\/p>\n

In rapid succession, the franchise was hit with two very high-profile blows. First, the dismissal of filmmakers\u00a0Phil Lord and Chris Miller from Solo: A Star Wars Story.\u00a0<\/em>Their departure and the less-than-enthusiastic response to the film’s marketing and star led to audiences giving such a collective “meh” response to\u00a0Solo<\/em> that Lucasfilm put plans for future Star Wars stories on hold \u2013 which is usually Hollywood code for “canceled until we can figure out what to do.” Director Ron Howard then had the unenviable task of taking over the film and shaping it to where Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy needed it to be. The result was a fun movie and a good time at the theater, but the damage had already been done, sadly.<\/p>\n

The second behind-the-scenes struggle to hit the news cycle was the firing of then-Episode IX<\/em> <\/a>director Colin Trevorrow. You can read more about the alleged “creative differences”<\/a> that lead to the\u00a0Jurassic World<\/em>‘s helmer’s dismissal, but long story less long: Trevorrow couldn’t play ball the way Kennedy, as the shepherd of the franchise, likes and needs \u2013 and in the wake of\u00a0Solo<\/em>‘s troubles, she could not afford to get too far down the field and have another one of those on her hands. So she smartly made the decision to part ways.<\/p>\n

So J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force<\/em> Awakens<\/em>)\u00a0returned\u00a0to co-write and direct the final chapter in the Rey and Finn and Poe trilogy that he started. The still-untitled Episode IX<\/em>\u00a0is set to hit theaters December 20, 2019.<\/p>\n

Still, regardless of what some fans may think about Johnson’s choices in\u00a0The Last Jedi<\/em>, the filmmaker took big swings and delivered images and characters and emotionally\u00a0impactful scenes that \u2013 for better or worse \u2013 we had never seen before in a\u00a0Star Wars<\/em> movie. In a risk-averse, IP-driven Hollywood, that’s a huge win and something to be commended.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the internet, passionate fanbases are virtually allowed the frustrating privilege to look over creatives’ shoulders as they make decisions in almost real-time. A consequence of this is a “First!” mentality; it becomes easy to judge and scrutinize (before properly vetting) the difficult process of creating ideas before they can be refined \u2013 or, if the creative process dictates \u2013 discarded. Objectivity is critical when creating and executing ideas to be translated to a subjective medium. Filmmakers like Johnson deserve as safe a space to do that as much as the rest of us do. If he faced then the scrutiny he does now, we may never have seen such amazing, for-all-time moments as Vice Admiral Holdo making a kamikaze run at lightspeed \u2013 or\u00a0Porgs.<\/p>\n

That level of creativity alone makes it worth hoping that Johnson gets to share his unique vision once again for that galaxy far, far away.<\/p>\n

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