Rian Johnson wants to move beyond ‘legacy characters’ with new Star Wars trilogy

Rian Johnson, who directed Star Wars: The Final Jedi, can be making a complete new trilogy for the franchise.

Filmmaker Rian Johnson has teased that his new Star Wars trilogy will discover the tales of recent characters in a galaxy far, distant.

The 45-year-old director, who directed the franchise’s 2017 blockbuster The Final Jedi, can be making a complete new trilogy for the Lucasfilm after the present sequence wraps submit this yr’s The Rise of Skywalker.

His trilogy can be separate from the one being developed by Recreation of Thrones creators David Benioff and D B Weiss.

In an interview with Observer, Johnson stated he plans to transcend the “legacy characters”, an obvious reference to the Skywalker saga which has dominated the franchise because the first movie.

“I believe that the enjoyable and difficult a part of it’s to dive in, work out what’s thrilling after which work out what it’s going to be. We’re doing one thing that steps past the legacy characters. What does that appear like? To me, the blue sky ingredient of it’s what was most putting about it.

“I know how that I’m coming at it, and what’s enjoyable about it for everybody in George Lucas’ movies, is determining, ‘What’s the subsequent step?’ It actually makes you assume and work out what the essence of Star Wars is for me and what that may appear like shifting ahead,” the director stated.

Disney, which owns Lucasfilm, has not but formally introduced Johnson’s trilogy, however producer Kathleen Kennedy had just lately hinted that the studio has deliberate Star Wars movies for the subsequent decade.

Johnson’s subsequent directorial is Knives Out, which options an ensemble forged of Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield and Katherine Langford.

The movie could have its world premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition subsequent month.

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