As we wait for Empire Magazine’s issue dedicated to The Last Jedi to arrive on newsstands September 7, they’ve begun to post exclusive excerpts from the issue on their website. Today they published a few comments from Episode VIII director Rian Johnson on the topic of Supreme Leader Snoke’s origin, or more specifically the lack of backstory details that will play out on screen come December.
“We got the whole story of Palpatine’s rise to power in the prequels, but in the original films he’s exactly what he needs to be, which is just ‘The Emperor’” Johnson tells Empire in the new October issue. “He’s a dark force: the scary thing behind the thing. That was entirely how I approached Snoke. I wasn’t interested in explaining where he came from or telling his history, except where it serves this story.”
Johnson also touched on the subject of expanding the character of Kylo Ren in Episode VIII, so be sure to visit their site for the complete read.
For more The Last Jedi articles from Empire Magazine’s October issue, check out the Related Articles section located at the bottom of this post.
