Vi vet fortfarande ingenting om den avslutande Star Wars-episoden och vi vet inte heller när vi faktiskt kan förvänta oss en trailer till Episod IX, men J.J. passade ändå på att berätta lite vagt om hur han tog sig an den nya episoden efter att Colin Trevorrow fick kicken och menar att den korta förproduktionstiden påminde en hel del om arbetet med TV-serien Lost:
"I'm not complaining when I say this, but it was having to make decisions based on gut. When Damon Lindelof and I created Lost, we had essentially 12 weeks to write, cast, shoot, cut, and turn in a two-hour pilot with a big cast. And that was a crazy short amount of time. The benefit of that was, we didn't have time to overthink. There wasn't time to get studio notes that end up sometimes taking you in lateral positions and making you adjust things—death by a thousand cuts—to a place where something doesn't resemble what it should be, and you can't remember why you got there or how."
Abrams diskuterar också hur det var att följa upp Rian Johnsons kontroversiella The Last Jedi:
"I had some gut instincts about where the story would have gone. But without getting in the weeds on episode eight, that was a story that Rian wrote and was telling based on seven before we met. So he was taking the thing in another direction. So we also had to respond to Episode VIII. So our movie was not just following what we had started, it was following what we had started and then had been advanced by someone else. So there was that, and, finally, it was resolving nine movies. While there are some threads of larger ideas and some big picture things that had been conceived decades ago and a lot of ideas that Lawrence Kasdan and I had when we were doing Episode VII, the lack of absolute inevitability, the lack of a complete structure for this thing, given the way it was being run was an enormous challenge."
Episod IX, som ännu inte har fått en officiell titel, får svensk premiär den 18 december. Vad tror du om den nya episoden?
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