Filmmaker Rian Johnson directed 2017’s The Last Jedi which welcomed backlash from fans online.
Rian Johnson, the director whose current release Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has spun out to be a massive hit in the restricted theatrical release before its digital Netflix premiere, has communicated his desire to produce another Star Wars movie.
Rian directed 2017’s The Last Jedi, which although critically acclaimed, welcomed enormous divisive reactions from fans online. Now the director likes to make another movie for the acclaimed franchise. “It wouldn’t be the ending of the world for anyone, I guess. But I would be unhappy. I love the world. I love the people. I love ‘Star Wars fans. I love the intensity of how they engage in it, there’s nothing like articulating a story in this world and then encountering people truly associating with it and letting you know that. It’s wonderful. So I’m expecting I get to do it again, but nothing is the ending of the world until the end of the world actually occurs, which, what day of the week is it?” the director said in an interview.
Rian is presently doing the press rounds for the Netflix release of Glass Onion, which reunites Daniel Craig as the detective Benoit Blanc. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ensues Benoit as he is invited to a private island to decrypt a murder-mystery party created by an unorthodox billionaire (played by Edward Norton) for a set of his old friends (played by an ensemble cast that comprises of Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., and Dave Bautista). The director opened up about the goals for the third film in the Knives Out saga in a chatter with Insider and counted: “I want it to be in America. There are a lot of tantalizing things of going to – Paris or the Alps – but I feel it’s really influential that these are American movies. Even with Glass Onion, it’s set overseas but it’s a cluster of Americans who are trapped on an island together, so obtaining it back to somewhere a little closer to home I think could be a reasonable thing for the next one.”
Glass Onion is a sequel to 2019’s Knives Out for which Rian was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Netflix has lately spent around $400 million to cultivate the next two sequels.
