Promoting the return of his hit detective series Poker Face starring Natasha Lyonne, Rian Johnson was inevitably asked about a potential return to the Star Wars galaxy, and was only too happy to describe his experience in the GFFA so far (“it’s not like I’ve gone through a living hell or something“) and make clear that a return somewhere down the line is something he’d relish.
“I always want to make this clear: it’s not like I’ve gone through a living hell or something,” Johnson says, chipperly. “I’ve had the kind of experience that you only dream about as a filmmaker. I was in my twenties when the prequels came out. I mean, you talk about wars between Star Wars fans… We experienced our own. That [the prequels] was World War I, and this [The Last Jedi] was World War II.”
“But,” he adds, “I feel like I’ve had such a wonderful, lovely, positive experience with the fans during the course of it. That’s left me a bigger Star Wars fan than I ever was, which is really something, because I grew up with it as the bedrock of my childhood.”
And a return some time in the future?
“I’m focused on making other stuff. But that wouldn’t rule out it happening down the line. If I get back in the Star Wars universe someday, I’d be the happiest person.”
