Trilogie Star Wars de Rian Johnson [Lucasfilm - 20??]

Vanity Fair a posé la question à Kathleen Kennedy :

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And the trilogy from The Last Jedi’s Rian Johnson that was announced five years ago? Back-burnered. “Rian has been unbelievably busy with Knives Out and the deal that he made at Netflix for multiple movies.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/star-wars-cover-the-rebellion-will-be-televised

Bon, ce sera pas pour tout de suite...

Rian Johnson a confié au magazine Empire qu'il n'avait pas oublié sa trilogie de films Star Wars et qu'il avait toujours le désir de la réaliser.


"Je suis resté proche de Kathleen [Kennedy] et nous nous réunissons souvent et en parlons", a-t-il déclaré à Empire à propos de sa série Star Wars tant attendue. "C'est juste à ce stade une question de calendrier et de moment où cela peut arriver. Cela me briserait le cœur si j'en avais fini, si je ne pouvais pas retourner dans ce bac à sable à un moment donné".

Empire Magazine a écrit:

Rian Johnson Still Wants To Make His Star Wars Trilogy: ‘It Would Break My Heart If I Were Finished’ – Exclusive

Not only does this year mark five years of Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi – it also marks five years since Lucasfilm announced an all-new trilogy of Star Wars movies to be created by that film’s writer-director, Rian Johnson. Half a decade later, those films are yet to materialise – but though, like Luke Skywalker hidden away on Ahch-To, they seem to have disappeared, they’re not totally gone. Speaking to Empire, Johnson made it clear that he hasn’t forgotten about his set of original Star Wars movies, and still has a burning desire to return to the galaxy far, far away down the line.

“I’ve stayed close to Kathleen [Kennedy] and we get together often and talk about it,” he tells Empire of his long-awaited Star Wars series. “It’s just at this point a matter of schedule and when it can happen. It would break my heart if I were finished, if I couldn’t get back in that sandbox at some point.” For now, he’s hard at working cooking up two Knives Out sequels for Netflix – the first of which, Glass Onion, is arriving this December. Meanwhile, the Star Wars slate is looking similarly busy, with Andor weeks away from debuting, the return of The Mandalorian coming early next year, and Ahsoka to follow.

Johnson’s comments track with what Kathleen Kennedy told Empire at Star Wars Celebration earlier this year – that everyone involved has a full plate for now, but the films are by no means dead and buried. “Now, everybody’s so busy – genuinely busy and working on things,” Kennedy said a few months ago. “Rian had such a gigantic success with Knives Out that he’s very committed to try and get that done. So it’ll be a while. And we have to work three, five years in advance on what we’re doing. So that’s where that sits. But we love him.” There’s a spark of hope, then. And if The Last Jedi taught us anything, it’s that all it took was a spark to light the fire to burn the First Order down. We’re more than willing to wait for a fresh batch of Rian Johnson Star Wars stories to ignite.

5 ans après, il se dit très fier de son film Les Derniers Jedi. "J'en suis encore plus fier cinq ans plus tard", dit-il. "Le film n'est pas seulement un film Star Wars - c'est un film sur Star Wars et ce que cela signifie pour les fans (lui-même inclus). Je pense qu'il est impossible pour chacun d'entre nous d'aborder Star Wars sans y penser comme un mythe avec lequel nous avons été élevés, et comment ce mythe, cette histoire, s'est ancré en nous et nous a affectés. L'intention ultime n'était pas de se dépouiller - l'intention était d'accéder au pouvoir fondamental du mythe. Et finalement, j'espère que le film est une affirmation du pouvoir du mythe de Star Wars dans nos vies.

"Les images finales du film, pour moi, ne déconstruisent pas le mythe de Luke Skywalker, elles le construisent, et elles l'adoptent", explique le réalisateur. "Elles défient absolument la notion de "jeter le passé" et embrassent ce qui compte vraiment dans son mythe et ce qui va inspirer la prochaine génération. Donc pour moi, le processus de déshabillage est toujours dans l'intérêt d'arriver à quelque chose d'essentiel qui compte vraiment."

Empire Magazine a écrit:

Rian Johnson Is ‘Even More Proud’ Of Star Wars: The Last Jedi Five Years On – Exclusive

If there’s a line of dialogue in Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi that feels particularly apt, it’s one spoken by Luke Skywalker: “This is not going to go the way you think.” Writer-director Rian Johnson’s middle chapter in the Sequel Trilogy was a rich, adventurous, mythical tale continuing the stories of Rey, Kylo Ren, Finn and Poe Dameron, that also dug deep into the soul of Luke Skywalker himself, decades after the triumphant finale of Return Of The Jedi. Along the way it contained all kinds of surprises, developing the threads of The Force Awakens in fresh and unexpected ways. It was another box office smash, pulling in over $1.3 billion worldwide – but it also challenged its audience in ways that some weren’t quite prepared for at the time.

In a major new Empire interview, Rian Johnson looks back on The Last Jedi for its fifth anniversary, reflecting with a few years’ distance on his episode in the Skywalker Saga. “I’m even more proud of it five years on,” he says. “When I was up at bat, I really swung at the ball.” The film, he says, is not just a Star Wars movie – it’s a movie about Star Wars, and what it means to fans (himself included). “I think it’s impossible for any of us to approach Star Wars without thinking about it as a myth that we were raised with, and how that myth, that story, baked itself into us and affected us,” Johnson explains. “The ultimate intent was not to strip away – the intent was to get to the basic, fundamental power of myth. And ultimately I hope the film is an affirmation of the power of the myth of Star Wars in our lives.”

That extends to its controversial depiction of Luke Skywalker as a hermit who’s closed himself off from the Force, having sensed darkness in his nephew Ben Solo and accidentally pushed him further towards the Dark Side as Kylo Ren. But as much as Luke begins the film in a very different place than we left him at the end of the Original Trilogy, his arc over the course of The Last Jedi – ending in his death, and the birth of a new Skywalker legend – sees him become a galactic symbol of hope and rebellion once more. “The final images of the movie, to me, are not deconstructing the myth of Luke Skywalker, they’re building it, and they’re him embracing it,” the director explains. “They’re him absolutely defying the notion of, ‘Throw away the past,’ and embracing what actually matters about his myth and what’s going to inspire the next generation. So for me, the process of stripping away is always in the interest of getting to something essential that really matters.” Something essential, that really matters? He could be describing The Last Jedi itself.

Rian Johnson est continuellement occupé mais toujours intéressé à réaliser sa trilogie Star Wars, cela ne dépend que de lui réaffirme Kathleen Kennedy dans une interview accordée à Variety.

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“Rian and I talk all the time,” she said. “He is unbelievably busy. So we’re not actively involved in anything at the moment because he’s doing another one of the ‘Glass Onion’ movies and then God knows what else. But he really wants to step back into the space. It’s a big commitment of time, so that’s really on him.”

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/kathleen-kennedy-star-wars-celebration-lucasfilm-daisy-ridley-obi-wan-kenobi-season-2-1235577414/

Ouf, s'il pouvait oublier SW.