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Bradley Russell

8 years after it was announced, Rian Johnson's Star Wars trilogy appears to be dead after The Last Jedi director lifts lid on how far he got with it: "Nothing really happened"

Rian Johnson at the Poker Face season 2 premiere.

Well, this might be it. Rian Johnson's long-gestating Star Wars trilogy – first announced in 2017 – could be done for. That comes after The Last Jedi director revealed it only ever reached a "conceptual" stage.

"Nothing really happened with it," Johnson told Rolling Stone. "We had a great time working together, and they said, ‘Let’s keep doing it.’ I said, ‘Great!’ I would kick ideas around with [Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy]. The short version is Knives Out happened. I went off and made Knives Out, and was off to the races, busy making murder mysteries."

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