Star Wars 8 Will Be ‘Weird’ Promises Screenwriter
It looks as though ‘Star Wars 8’ won’t play it quite so safe… as Lawrence Kasdan promises things could get a little ‘weird’.
During an interview with The L.A. Times, ‘Star Wars’ screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan – who worked on the original trilogy as well as ‘The Force Awakens’ – spoke about ‘Star Wars 8’.
“These movies will all be so different,” he explained. “[Star Wars 8 director] Rian Johnson is a friend of mine — he’s going to make some weird thing.”
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Although ‘The Force Awakens’ has been hailed as a huge success – and certainly managed to recapture the lost magic of the original trilogy – it has received some criticism for simply not taking enough risks.
After all, ‘Star Wars’ is the perfect vehicle to push the boundaries.
But now it sounds as though ‘Star Wars 8’ could do just that.
“If you’ve seen Rian’s work, you know it’s not going be like anything that’s ever been in Star Wars,” said Kasdan. “You couldn’t have three more different people than J.J., Rian and Colin [Trevorrow, Episode IX director].”
Of course, Rian Johnson is best known for ‘Looper’ – the time-travelling sci-fi drama starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the same man, thirty-or-so years apart. Except that their paths soon cross when Willis is sent into the past to be killed by his younger self.
And his debut feature ‘Brick’ remixes the hardboiled detective story with a high-school cast.
But can we expect Johnson to continue pushing the boundaries in ‘Star Wars 8’?
It’s unlikely that the director will get to be quite so experimental – after all, this time he’s playing in somebody else’s universe. Not only does his ‘Star Wars’ sequel follow on from ‘The Force Awakens’ created by J.J. Abrams, but the galaxy far, far away is now owned by Disney… and that could mean a far safer approach in future.
Of course, for now we’ll have to wait and see. But quite how ‘weird’ the upcoming ‘Star Wars’ sequel will really be, remains a bit of a mystery.
‘Star Wars 8’ heads to cinemas on 26 May 2017.
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