![]() Read that passage above and tell me Rian Johnson "doesn't get" Star Wars. ![]() Half a decade has passed (!) since writer-director Rian Johnson served up something fresh, new and interesting in a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, only for a vocal chunk of the fan base to shun him and insist that he ruined their childhoods/general lives. And ultimately I hope the film is an affirmation of the power of the myth of Star Wars in our lives." "The ultimate intent was not to strip away – the intent was to get to the basic, fundamental power of myth. "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. "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’m even more proud of it five years on," he says. 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. ![]()
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