To celebrate the highly anticipated arrival of The Last Jedi on 4K UHD and standard Blu-ray here in the US today, Lucasfilm’s dandy Dan Brooks posted a piece on StarWars.com that features words from Anthony Wonke, the director behind the feature-length documentary “The Director and the Jedi”. This documentary, which chronicles the making of Episode VIII, is easily one of the main highlights of the bevy of bonus content contained in the film’s home media release.
We were treated to an 11-minute preview of this bonus content documentary earlier this month.
Check out the intro to Dan’s article below and then take the provided source link for the full read, which also includes a photo (click the image supplied beneath the copied text for a larger view) of the heart-tugging moment from The Last Jedi when Luke’s Force projection places a kiss on Leia’s forehead during the battle on Crait.
“I don’t want to freak anybody out here,” writer-director Rian Johnson says before a massive crowd at the wrap party for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. “But I think we just made a Star Wars movie.” Johnson seems excited. Confident. Happy. But also…a little bemused by his new reality. Maybe with some healthy doubt lingering just underneath — the doubt that anyone who decided to bring Luke Skywalker’s story to an end might feel.
It’s a subtly real moment. And that’s why it’s the perfect opening for director Anthony Wonke’s The Director and the Jedi, a revealing documentary on the making of The Last Jedi. It’s also a very generous bonus feature included with the film, which arrives today on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and On-Demand, and is also available on Digital and via Movies Anywhere.
“I was approached by Ram Bergman, I think it was in October 2015,” Wonke tells StarWars.com. “I got an e-mail, and it just said, ‘We’re really interested in having a documentary made about the making of The Last Jedi, and we don’t want you to make an EPK [Electronic Press Kit]. We know that’s not what you do. We’re wondering if you’d want to come in and talk about it and see what we could do.’ And kind of nine meetings later, we worked out a way of doing it.”
