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slick1972

8 years ago

February speculation (MERGE)

I've seen hints, hints and speculation, that February will have something exciting to a large portion of the players: Revan. I'd love it if it were true, but I'm thinking if it's related to Revan at a...

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JaggedJ99

8 years ago

"Cossin;c-1414220" wrote:
You guys do know that neither JJ nor Rian were simply able to make any film they want? They get ideas, scripts whatever and have a quite reasonable amount of freedom, yet it all passes through some committee with all kinds of questions and issues...

So, in the end, I don‘t think one was stuck because of another. They did have different styles and visions on how to keep going, but in the end, it is going to be a coherent, last trilogy. I‘m pretty sure they knew JJ would direct the last one, before shooting ep 8 even started, thus there certainly had been instructions made. (Why they didn‘t leave it to just one director will probably stay a mystery for me)

JJ was not supposed to direct episode 9. Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) was supposed to direct it but left the project September last year. So they had no clue that JJ would direct episode 9 before 8 started.