Slashfilm continue their look at the /Filmcast interview with The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, this time breaking down the most pertinent points of the conversation. They cover a multitude of topics, including this absolute doozy, which explains a lot.
I was in the middle of trying to crack this whole thing with Luke and the ending. I hadn’t quite got it yet, but I had this notion of what ended up being the projection thing that he does. But I wasn’t sure about it. I was like, is this okay? I swear to God, this happened, I was sitting in the lobby at Lucasfilm, waiting for [senior vice president] Kiri [Hart] to come out because I had forgotten my badge that day or something. That book was sitting on the coffee table there in the lobby. I picked it up and started thumbing through it, and I said, “Ooh, advanced Force powers.” I turned to it, and it described exactly what you saw. I landed on that and it was like a God ray came down or something.