Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

[Set Harth]

The Last Jedi's Rian Johnson given full creative freedom on his new Star Wars trilogy

With a franchise as tightly run as Star Wars, you would think that Lucasfilm painstakingly plans out every story detail themselves. However, when it comes to director Rian Johnson, he seemingly gets to let loose in their sci-fi sandpit.

www.criticalhit.net

They're going to be threatening us with this thing forever, aren't they?

 

[The Gatekeeper]

No director gets carte blanche, and that should have applied to Lucas as well.

To be fair, Lucas actually did own the property, so he had the right to do whatever he pleased.

 

[fireproof78]

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Oh no.


Anyway...

To be fair, Lucas actually did own the property, so he had the right to do whatever he pleased.

True.

But, I do still believe art benefits from limitations and the PT is a prime example of excess.

 

[Ithekro]

If Lucas could have gotten a director for the PT, maybe they would have done something slightly different. But union rules I guess still made it difficult to get someone other than himself.