Rian Johnson Gives Update On Approach For New Star Wars Trilogy

Rian Johnson spoke with IGN and discussed the approach he’s taking for his new Star Wars trilogy. Johnson, who is developing a new trilogy in the Star Wars universe, discussed his direction for the new films, as you can see in the below highlights:

On where he’s at with the new trilogy: “We’re just at the very beginning of figuring out what this new thing is going to be, but part of the excitement of it is really trying to hone in on ‘what is Star Wars?’ What was Star Wars for me the very first time I saw it when I was a little kid? What are the combination of elements that just made me want to jump into the screen, and made me want to go home and instantly start telling my own stories?”

On trying to come up with a Star Wars film without the biggest characters and settings: “Once you get past the things that are the iconography of Star Wars – once you say, okay, if it doesn’t have the Falcon; if it doesn’t have someone with Skywalker as their last name; if we don’t go to Tatooine, what is it? What is it at its essence? It’s a really exciting question, and I think it’s something that has to be answered at some point. So let’s figure it out.”