As part of the press for the Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion, Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman have discussed if they would be willing to create a Star Wars series rather than a new film trilogy, and they share what they learnt from making The Last Jedi.
Now that you’re creating TV, and Lucasfilm is very aggressively pursuing series, is there a Star Wars series you’d like to make?
JOHNSON I would do a Star Wars anything. And if I had an idea that I was excited about, that worked better as a show than a movie, I’d do it that way. At the moment, we’re in between making the next Benoit Blanc movie and thinking about Poker Face. I keep getting together with Kathy [Kennedy] and having conversations. Who knows? Making The Last Jedi was the best experience in my life, so I should be so lucky.
What did you learn from making The Last Jedi?
JOHNSON A big piece of it, which Ram taught me, was coming into every situation — with studios, financiers, decision-makers — and embracing them in the process. That served us well in the independent world and with Bob Iger, Alan Horn, Alan Bergman and Kathy Kennedy and everybody at Lucasfilm. It was just a very respectful, joyful process.
BERGMAN If you bring people into the process early, they’re rooting for you. And they eventually let you do what you want to do.
Read the interview in full here. See Glass Onion in cinemas now, before it moves to digital platforms next month.
Image: Rian Johnson (left) and Ram Bergman were photographed at T-Street’s Los Angeles office by Philip Cheung for the Hollywood Reporter.
