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When Rian Johnson’s Star Wars film The Last Jedi was released in 2017, it came in as a critically acclaimed box office hit, earning four Academy Award nominations and grossing upwards of $1.3B worldwide. Diehard fans of the franchise, however, took umbrage with the title, very loudly calling out their issues with everything from its plot to its tone.
After wading into the public discourse surrounding The Last Jedi a fair number of times in the five years since, Johnson has once again spoken about his intentions with the film and the thinking that informed it — this time, in a video interview with GQ spotlighting his overall filmography, which you can view above.
Johnson notes that a core issue some had with The Last Jedi was the belief that its use of humor has no place in the Star Wars canon, expressing at the same time his sense that this perspective is misguided. “For me, everything in the movie is Star Wars, and everything in the movie, I can trace back to deeply, in a deep way, what Star Wars is for me,” he says. “And I know that everyone has a different take. I know there are Star Wars fans who somehow think that Star Wars was a serious thing, like the Batman movies or something.”
The filmmaker makes his argument to the contrary with reference to choices made by the franchise’s creator George Lucas in his original trilogy, which embraced the light as a counterbalance to the dark. He says that when he first saw Empire Strikes Back as a kid, “it had this deep, profound impact on me because it was terrifying, because I was just young enough to not experience it as watching a Star Wars movie, but to have it feel too real.” But for Johnson, who saw the subsequent entry Return of the Jedi at “exactly the right age in
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It has been five long years since the release of Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” Thankfully, over the past year or so, it feels like the discourse surrounding it has tempered a bit and people aren’t ready to murder each other on social media if you even mention the film. That said, there are still a lot of opinions out there about ‘The Last Jedi.’ And in a recent interview, Rian Johnson is here to at least talk about his intentions with the film, whether or not you believe he was successful.
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Filmmaker Rian Johnson’s comedic murder mystery “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” isn’t even out on Netflix yet (December 23), but it’s already one of the most talked about films of the late 2022 season thanks to film critics raving over it and a one-week theatrical release that the streaming service gave the film in November. READ MORE: Knives Out’: Rian Johnson Confirms Daniel Craig’s Character Is Queer And many have raved about how prophetic and timely it is, even though it was written two years ago, centering on a narcissistic, ego-centric tech billionaire and his various out-of-touch whims—the film centers on tech billionaire (Edward Norton) who sends all his close friends and ally to his private island, inviting along super detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to solve the mystery of the tech bro’s “death.” But that’s just the surface intrigue, below is a tale of complicity, lies, betrayal, and revenge (read our review).