Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson says he was 'hoping for' fan pushback, rather than being 'afraid of doing anything that shakes it up'

Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has said he anticipated and welcomed the movie's polarizing response — ...
NBC Bay Area

1 Year After Carrie Fisher's Death, the Bittersweetness of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi's' Success

There was no doubt that "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was going to be one of the biggest, most talked-about movies of 2017. There was also no doubt that it would stir up some deep sorrow along with the ...
Game Rant

‘I Took Great Pains to Use Him in the Most Dramatically Impactful Way’ Eight Years Later, Star Wars Director Stands by The Last Jedi’s Controversial Death Scene

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...
Deadline.com

Liam Neeson Thought His ‘Star Wars’ Death Scene Was “A Bit Namby-Pamby”: “Hardly A Master Jedi”

A somewhat long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Liam Neeson took a lightsaber to the gut. The Oscar nominee recently expressed dissatisfaction with his Jedi Master character Qui-Gon Jinn in Star ...