Post by CoolJGS☺ on Oct 23, 2019 18:30:39 GMT
Back when Disney bought Lucasfilm and announced plans for a sequel trilogy, J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and the Lucasfilm Story Group should have sat down and mapped out a story well in advance. However, because Disney wanted the film out by December 2015, they had months to write a complete shooting script and it was finished right up until they began shooting.
I really didn't like the "mystery box" form of storytelling and the rehashing of ideas from A New Hope, but The Force Awakens did its job in honoring the original trilogy and setting up a new story. Ultimately, I really think Rian Johnson dropped the ball when it came to writing The Last Jedi and especially when it came to Luke's character. I liked most of everything else, though. So, I mostly blame Kathleen Kennedy (who was running Lucasfilm) for the lack of pre-planning the sequel trilogy and throwing out George Lucas's story treatments and Johnson. However, I don't think Abrams can escape blame since he helped to create the new story.
"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.
It would never matter if JJ Abrams had a whole story since he was only director for one of them early on.
I don’t think that any one director had more sway than the others.