Rian Johnson has a lot on his plate proper now, from the launch of Knives Out sequel Glass Onion to his Peacock thriller collection Poker Face. So a lot so, it’s the explanation we’ve not heard a peep out of his plans for a beforehand introduced trilogy of Star Wars motion pictures aside from that he’d actually like to maintain doing them. But Johnson isn’t simply down for some extra motion pictures.

It what feels just like the seven million years for the reason that launch of The Last Jedi in 2017, a mixture of the tradition conflict harassment firestorm round its debut and Johnson’s capability to stay booked, busy, and unbothered has meant there’s been little time for speak across the director’s beforehand introduced return to the franchise: a theatrical trilogy, revolving round new characters, in a beforehand untouched a part of the Star Wars galaxy. But in these tens of millions of years, Star Wars has advanced into greater than a totally armed and operational film franchise, by reveals like The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and now by far and away the very best of all of them, Andor. And Johnson wouldn’t thoughts getting in that approach, both.

“I would do a Star Wars anything. And if I had an idea that I was excited about, that worked better as a show than a movie, I’d do it that way,” Johnson just lately advised the Hollywood Reporter about his future with Star Wars. Of course, no matter Johnson wished to make, he’s simply too busy for now. “At the moment, we’re in between making the next Benoit Blanc movie and thinking about Poker Face,” the director continued. “I keep getting together with Kathy [Kennedy] and having conversations. Who knows? Making The Last Jedi was the best experience in my life, so I should be so lucky.”

While it would be good to ultimately get three motion pictures from Johnson to push Star Wars’ cinematic horizons as we thought we should always anticipate once they have been introduced all these years in the past, at this level? I wouldn’t say no to a TV present. Between his historical past with Breaking Bad and Poker Face he’s a dab hand within the medium, and maybe what higher solution to have area to chew on meatier concepts The Last Jedi brushed on than over the course of a season of TV? Alas, all we are able to do, identical to Johnson reminds us, is hold hoping.

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