


They feel like another one of Disney’s controlled marketing narratives to both have their Star Wars cake and eat it too. In a separate interview with Hypebeast, Boyega said he disagreed with a lot of the choices in The Last Jedi and said the movie felt “iffy” to him.Ībrams and the actors are certainly entitled to their opinions, but the specific way these quotes are angled seems intentional on the eve of The Rise of Skywalker. Boyega had a more pointed reaction: “Even as a normal person in the audience, I wanted to see where that story was going,” he said, referring to the story Abrams set up in The Force Awakens, and that was–in his opinion–thrown for a loop in Jedi. In the Times profile, Ridley said she cried at the news he’d return, because of the safety he provides on set. “I don’t think that people go to Star Wars to be told, ‘This doesn’t matter.’”Įlsewhere, actors Daisy Ridley and John Boyega expressed relief that Abrams was back. “It’s a bit of a meta approach to the story,” he told the paper. Abrams–who kicked off the sequel trilogy with The Force Awakens and returns for Rise–spoke of the divisive Jedi. In a recent New York Times profile, director J.J. But this time, a lot of it’s coming from Star Wars cast members and creatives. The release of The Rise of Skywalker, the final film in the episodic franchise, is almost here and with it comes another refresh on The Last Jedi discourse. Is it overrated or underrated? Did writer/director Rian Johnson break the franchise or shatter blockbuster storytelling boundaries? Was it a healthy thing for the fandom or a sign that it’s beyond repair littered with folks who don’t know what they want, bolstered by a company that doesn’t understand its power? Will a week ever go by where we aren’t talking about The Last Jedi? The eighth film in the main Star Wars saga came out two years ago, and yet it’s routinely the subject of mass hysteria on social media.
