Rian Johnson has spent nearly 10 years building the world of Knives Out, and to great effect, but there’s a league of fans who know him best from his sci-fi work. Johnson delivered a heady time travel thriller in 2012, Looper, before helming a now-infamous chapter of the Star Wars saga. The Last Jedi was surprisingly divisive, but those who picked up on Johnson’s intent saw it as the breath of fresh air the franchise desperately needed. The director has been loosely attached to a new trilogy of films ever since, but after being stuck in purgatory for almost a decade, it’s safe to say that Johnson isn’t yet ready to return to that galaxy far away.
“That cog will be turning the rest of my life,” Johnson recently told Empire of his Star Wars trilogy. “I love Star Wars... And if some day it makes sense to come back to it, for both of us, it would be the most wonderful thing in the world.”
