Rian Johnson Reveals He Never Made an Outline or Treatment For His Star Wars Trilogy: 'All Very Conceptual'

Remember erstwhile Rian Johnson was expected to bring america a full caller Star Wars trilogy? The Glass Onion filmmaker has present opened up astir the projects that ne'er were, and admitted it was “all precise conceptual” — truthful overmuch truthful that helium ne'er developed an “outline oregon a attraction oregon anything” for the project.

“Nothing truly happened with it,” Johnson told Rolling Stone successful a caller interview. “We had a large clip moving together, and they said, ‘Let’s support doing it.’ I said, ‘Great!’ I would footwear ideas astir with Kathy [Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm president].

"The abbreviated mentation is ‘Knives Out’ happened. I went disconnected and made ‘Knives Out,’ and was disconnected to the races, engaged making execution mysteries. It’s the benignant of happening if, down the line, there’s an accidental to bash it, oregon bash thing other successful ‘Star Wars,’ I would beryllium thrilled. But close present I’m conscionable doing my ain stuff, and beauteous happy.”

As the communicative goes, Johnson was successful talks with Kennedy processing the 3 films, but the accidental to marque his Agatha Christie-style execution enigma Knives Out led the Last Jedi filmmaker to a antithetic franchise altogether.

A fewer years back, Johnson spoke of his tendency to get backmost successful the director’s seat for different Star Wars film, though admitted that “it wouldn’t beryllium the extremity of the satellite for anyone” if helium didn’t.

“But I would beryllium sad,” Johnson told Variety successful 2022. “I emotion the world. I emotion the people. I emotion ‘Star Wars’ fans. I emotion the passionateness of however they prosecute successful it. There’s thing similar telling a communicative successful this satellite and past experiencing radical genuinely connecting to it and letting you cognize that. It’s extraordinary.”

As portion of the aforesaid interview, Johnson addressed the polarised instrumentality absorption The Last Jedi, and said his days "arguing connected the playground astir Star Wars" — and successful peculiar his erstwhile dislike of the Prequel trilogy — had helped him process the backlash to his work.

The Brick filmmaker wrote and directed The Last Jedi successful 2017, truthful it’s decidedly been a portion since he’s been successful that galaxy. Considering the adjacent Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man, is acceptable to beryllium released successful December, and Lucasfilm's existent Star Wars movie plans already agelong retired to astatine slightest 2027, it whitethorn beryllium immoderate clip earlier Johnson wields his lightsaber erstwhile more.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.