Ahead of the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, IGN Japan joined a roundtable interview with director Rian Johnson in Tokyo. Johnson spoke of his approach to making a Star Wars movie, the strengths of the movie’s cast and characters, and the origins of the Porgs.
As you are one of several directors to work on the Star Wars series, how were you able to leave your personal stamp on The Last Jedi?
“The last thing in the world I was trying to do was to make a Rian Johnson film, or try to put my mark on it. I was just trying to tell a good Star Wars story.
“Now, inevitably, because I’m the one telling it, it’s going to have stuff that is told in my voice and comes from me. But I was just trying to make something that was emotional, something that was also very fun like a Star Wars movie should be, and something first and foremost that served these characters that I really loved and gave them something interesting to do and someplace that felt honest for them to go – but that ended up being very surprising.”
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As you are one of several directors to work on the Star Wars series, how were you able to leave your personal stamp on The Last Jedi?
“The last thing in the world I was trying to do was to make a Rian Johnson film, or try to put my mark on it. I was just trying to tell a good Star Wars story.
“Now, inevitably, because I’m the one telling it, it’s going to have stuff that is told in my voice and comes from me. But I was just trying to make something that was emotional, something that was also very fun like a Star Wars movie should be, and something first and foremost that served these characters that I really loved and gave them something interesting to do and someplace that felt honest for them to go – but that ended up being very surprising.”
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