Knives Out director Rian Johnson not too long ago spoke about his divisive Star Wars movie, The Final Jedi. Particularly, Johnson mentioned the movie’s ending and his method to endings usually.
“Look, by way of the Star Wars film I did, I attempted to provide it a hell of an ending,” Johnson advised The Atlantic. “I like endings a lot that even doing the center chapter of the trilogy, I attempted to provide it an ending. A very good ending that recontextualizes all the things that got here earlier than it and makes it a good looking object unto itself — that’s what makes a film a film. It looks like there’s much less and fewer of that.”
Johnson goes on to clarify how he feels that the latest prevalence of making mental properties in media is a “toxic thought” for storytellers.
“This entire toxic thought of making [intellectual property] has fully seeped into the bedrock of storytelling,” Johnson lamented. “Everyone seems to be simply pondering, How can we hold milking it? I like an ending the place you burn the Viking boat into the ocean.”
Johnson’s newest movie is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, which he wrote, directed, and produced. The sequel follows Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc as he travels to Greece to peel again the layers of a thriller involving a brand new forged of colourful suspects.
