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Rian Johnson has no story yet shooting for his new trilogy starts in June?


https://geektyrant.com/news/rian-johnson-will-start-shooting-his-original-star-wars-trilogy-this-year-in-scotland

He already said the first draft of his Last Jedi script took 15 months to write (yet even the finished product needed work), and he recently said he doesn't even have an idea for his new trilogy.

Yet, somehow, preliminary shooting starts within six months of right now.

What is happening with this guy? Why he is being treated like the Jesus of Star Wars???

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I'm sure Disney made him all sorts of promises. I kind of doubt we'll be seeing much more of him though. "Guy who killed Star Wars" doesn't look that great on a director's resume. If anyone needs a spineless toady for some hack work, he might get a job here and there I suppose.

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He didn’t kill SW stop being so dramatic.

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He will, however.

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He has. At least for me.

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He didnt kill star wars just kinda put it in the emergency room. I'm sure the series will bounce back though.

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He didnt kill Star Wars. The haters just dont understand how a movie works.

Most peoples who hate The Last Jedi hate it because their own personal theory werent fulfilled. They wanted Snoke to have this big backstory. They wanted Rey parents to be important to the whole saga. All those things were only in the imagination of peoples on internet. Rian Johnson never said anything that could make peoples believe these, it came from themselves. And now they get mad because they were wrong, but they wont admit it. Thank god that those arent movie writers, because they would write some really shitty stuff.

It reminds me of all the people who were upset at Luke Skywalker only appearing in the very last minute of The Force Awakens. They were mad, because they were promised that Luke would be important. That promises only existed in their head. Luke was not in any of the trailers. Luke was not in any of the posters. And J.J. Abrams never said that Luke had a important role in it. But people were mad because, once again, their own personal theory were not fulfilled. You would have thought those peoples would have learn from their mistake in the last two years, but unortunately they arent smart enough.

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Wants to shoot broom kid before he grows old 😆😆😆😆

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Yeah I kinda want to shoot broom kid too.

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Is this the interview that he states the timeline which the trilogy is set is of no interest to him? If so...WOW! If not I'll post it..it's a humdinger!

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It's referred to in the article, I do believe.

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http://www.slashfilm.com/new-star-wars-trilogy-details-2/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_2350122
I've a bad feeling about this...

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Rian himself: "This whole process has left me feeling ready to jump in and do it again right away. I don’t know why. I don’t know if that’s a good sign."

Sheesh.

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Start fretting and obsessing early and often. It will markedly improve the quality of the films.

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Not going to happen. The sequel trilogy isn't even done yet. I also doubt he stays on for 3 more movies after the mixed reception for TLJ. He might direct the first film, but not the rest.

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Him and Kathleen K might as well be bang buds at this point. He’s not going anywhere.

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these movies write themselves at this stage... soap operas don't have full scripts before they start shooting... can make it up as you go along 😁

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If even that. try watching a soap opera a year later and its still the same danm story.

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Exactly👍 ... Just like Star Wars 😉

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I believe the freak circumstance of not bothering to have a script for Thor 3 (and a few of the more successful writer's strike films) have convinced Disney that writers and stories just get in the way now. And they might be right. Now that films can be entirely constructed in the computer. No need to build sets, props, and scout locations a year in advance anymore, no script needed.

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Johnson probably rolls over like a trained poodle when Kathleen Kennedy interferes. She has chalked up quite a history of failed directorial relationships in a short time, so Disney probably jumped on the chance to avoid even more personnel drama in the future by locking him up now.

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