Did the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Need More Planning? JJ Abrams Answers
126J.J. Abrams was never supposed to direct more than one film in the Star Wars franchise. When he was first approached about tackling Episode VII, he turned it down. It took some convincing on then-new Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy’s part to get Abrams to agree to sign on, and in doing so Abrams said at the time he was excited about the idea of creating a foundation from the ground-up, from which other stories might grow. Indeed, The Force Awakens had the unenviable task of introducing brand new characters that fans would want to follow while also servicing fans’ desires to see old favorites back on the screen. Abrams – co-writing the script with Lawrence Kasdan after Michael Arndt wrote the initial drafts – pulled it off, not only providing a satisfying conclusion to Han Solo’s arc, but also making the world fall in love with Rey, Finn, Poe, BB-8, etc.
As Abrams was working on The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm wanted to get the next two films in the sequel trilogy off the ground and thus hired Rian Johnson to write and direct Episode VIII and Colin Trevorrow to co-write and direct Episode IX. The idea being that each director would build on what the previous filmmaker had crafted, leading to a sort of creative hand-off from one director to the next. In Johnson’s case, that meant following certain threads that Abrams built (like Rey’s confrontation with Luke Skywalker) and dropping others (like Snoke). The Last Jedi was a critical success, but was divisive among some diehard fans owing to some of these decisions to veer left when it looked like Abrams was plotting a course to the right.
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