Rian Johnson, on the promo trail for his Knives Out sequel Glass Onion, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and his production partner Ram Bergman to discuss his career and his hopes for a return to the galaxy far, far away, irrespective of whether it’s on the silver screen or in the streaming realm.
THR: Now that you’re creating TV, and Lucasfilm is very aggressively pursuing series, is there a Star Wars series you’d like to make?
JOHNSON 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. At the moment, we’re in between making the next Benoit Blanc movie and thinking about Poker Face. 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.
THR: What did you learn from making The Last Jedi?
JOHNSON A big piece of it, which Ram taught me, was coming into every situation — with studios, financiers, decision-makers — and embracing them in the process. That served us well in the independent world and with Bob Iger, Alan Horn, Alan Bergman and Kathy Kennedy and everybody at Lucasfilm. It was just a very respectful, joyful process.
BERGMAN If you bring people into the process early, they’re rooting for you. And they eventually let you do what you want to do.
