Abrams’ The Rise of Skywalker, which tried to retcon The Last Jediand tie up the Skywalker Saga at the same time, but just ended up as a bloated and disjointed disappointment. If you were to ask Foster, he’d no doubt say his version of Episode IX turned out much better than J.J. I never expected Disney to do anything with that.” This wasn’t just the conclusion of the so-called sequel trilogy, which started with 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and continued with 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, all of the.
And I wrote a partial treatment for that, attempting in that storyline to explain a lot of the really silly things that happened in Episode VIII. Contrary to fanboy hysteria, colorblind and gender-inclusive casting isn’t the film’s. ) Star Wars The Last Jedi has larger problems then writer/director Rian Johnson’s attempts to clean up the mess that was Star Wars The Force Awakens. I thought, ‘How can this be retconned? How can we fix as much as possible from Episode VIII in a proposed Episode IX?’. Star Wars The Last Jedi is Bad Storytelling at its Worst. I thought it was a terrible Star Wars movie, and there’s no need to go into why because every fan already has. And I went and saw it, and I thought it was a terrible film. “Episode VIII was out, it was a done deal. In a recent interview, Foster admitted that he was so unimpressed with The Last Jedi that he wrote a treatment for Episode IX just to make himself feel better. One person who most definitely isn’t a fan is writer Alan Dean Foster, the prolific author who’s written novels for some of the biggest brands in the industry including Star Trek, Transformers and Terminator, while his association with Star Wars dates back over 40 years.