POLL - Who Deserves Blame for "THE LAST JEDI" ?

POLL - Who Deserves Blame for "THE LAST JEDI" ? Oct 23, 2019 18:23:16 GMT

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Post by anthonyrocks on Oct 23, 2019 18:23:16 GMT

Oct 23, 2019 18:20:45 GMT Archelaus said:

Oct 23, 2019 18:02:38 GMT anthonyrocks said:

"J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and the Lucasfilm Story Group should have sat down and mapped out a story well in advance."

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I don't know if this is true or not (I never found out) and if it is then your not gonna like it at all.

That being said, what I heard (which was almost 2 years just a couple of months after "THE LAST JEDI" came out) was that JJ Abrams did indeed have a Complete Story Planned out for All 3 Movies with a Beginning, a Middle, and an End.

Both Rian Johnson and Colin Trevorrow were told the story and they both agreed to follow through with it with their "STAR WARS" Movies. The Plan was that Abrams would do the Beginning of it with "EPISODE 7", Johnson would do the Middle with "EPISODE 8", and Trevorrow would do the End with "EPISODE 9".

So the Plan began and Abrams did "THE FORCE AWAKENS" and it then fell into Rian Johnson's hands.

When it did, Johnson then decided to change the plan (and for some unknown reason, Kathleen Kennedy agreed with that decision) and do his own thing and so he made "THE LAST JEDI" and then when Trevorrow saw what they had done (before the movie came out), he talked to both Johnson and Kennedy and asked them not to kill off Luke Skywalker which they both refused, Trevorrow continued to protest it and so he was removed from "EPISODE 9".

Now again, I don't know if that is indeed all true or not (it may not be true, again I never found out) but I will say that if it is then I think that that was very selfish and backstabbing from Johnson and Kennedy.

After I made the post, I actually did find J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan's original treatment for Episode VIII. There's no way Abrams and Kasdan didn't have something planned out after Rey finds Luke on Ahch-to. However, Rian Johnson said a few years ago in a now-deleted tweet that nothing was planned out beyond The Force Awakens. So, either Johnson was lying or he didn't know about Abrams and Kasdan's treatment. So, I'm led to believe Johnson probably knew about the treatment, but decided to do his own thing and he actually did correspond with Abrams by having R2-D2 go with Rey to Ahch-to instead of BB-8.

Still, I blame Johnson mostly for The Last Jedi and I hate that he refused to let Luke live so Colin Trevorrow could use him in Episode IX. I believe Kathleen Kennedy sided with Johnson and when Trevorrow was unhappy, he left.

WOW, Then I actually feel bad for JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan.

Not just that but because of Johnson and Kennedy's actions, they have practically put Abrams in an almost impossible situation with "THE RISE OF SKYWALKER".