Disney held a press conference for Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, and although the cast and filmmakers in attendance were mostly tight-lipped, J.J. Abrams did address his approach to the story following Rian Johnson’s controversial The Last Jedi.
"Because we had worked on Force Awakens…we had talked about quite a few things back in the day," Abrams said. "So it was a bit of picking up where we left off. And the fact is that what Rian Johnson had done in Last Jedi had set up some things that were sort of wonderful for this story, one of the things being that the cast was separated. The characters weren’t together for the entire movie essentially."
The characters are sure to come together again in the conclusion to this trilogy–and we have no doubt it will be immensely satisfying for fans. Abrams went on to discuss his process for coming up with specific story beats:
"We just started doing the thing that you do, which is you say, ‘What do you desperately want to see? What feels right?’ And then my job as the director was to make sure that all the pressures of all the obvious things–fan expectation, and studio [expectation], and all those practical, logistical issues as well, weren’t brought to set…we needed to keep the thing feeling as human as possible, and not like some massive machine."
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Source: GameSpot
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