Updated with Better Quality! The Last Jedi: Video of Collider’s Special Q&A Event with Rian Johnson
February 1, 2018
Yesterday Collider held a special screening of The Last Jedi at the IMAX HQ, and after the screening the film’s writer/director Rian Johnson did one of the longest and most interesting Q&A’s with Steven Weintraub and the fans about the movie.
The Q&A went on for almost 90 minutes. Steven and the fans made great use of that time bouncing questions off of Johnson, and didn’t hold back in their choice of questions. While we’ve heard many of his replies in the past, there are a few new tidbits that The Last Jedi director shared with the audience.
Johnson confirmed that there are more than 20 minutes of deleted scenes from The Last Jedi, but it is still unclear if we will get everything in the upcoming Blu-ray/DVD release. He also touched on collaborating with Mark Hamill in regards to how they carried out Luke’s fate in the movie.
Rian also briefly spoke about his new upcoming Star Wars trilogy. He revealed he is still in the early stages of the project’s development so it will probably take months before we hear something new about it. Especially with the upcoming release of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
A big portion of the event was filled with questions from the fans, who didn’t hold back in terms of topics. Overall the whole event was very interesting and is worth listening to. You can watch the video below posted by IMAX on their Facebook page:
In addition to this, afterwards Rian (who came to the event only with his friend and producer Ram Bergman) was generous enough to give autographs to all the participants and take a photo with them.
UPDATE!
February 6, 2018.
Now Collider has uploaded their high quality video from the event. Check it out in all its glory:
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Rian Johnson is a master filmmaker!
Lol!
there is a lot of comedy here today
Happy to have JJ back for Episode 9, but there is no way I’m giving RJ any money for his new Trilogy.
(no one cares)
Maybe he’ll give Episode 9 a Beastie Boys soundtrack like he did Star Trek! Wouldn’t that be amazing?
a bunch of years avoiding Star Wars in theaters? Nan… I don’t believe you.
I did not see Rogue One in theaters, nor do I watch the Clone Wars TV show so I don’t bow to every SW movie/TV show. I’m pretty much a Skywalker Saga fan since 1977, and that will end at Episode 9. Why should I care about RJ’s new Trilogy at this point? I wasn’t a big fan of TLJ, and it will be all new characters so that honestly doesn’t interest me.
Almost every movie I see has all new characters. Seems silly to assert years in advance that you are not interested in a film within a franchise you enjoy.
Well, he is smarter than us.
I think you get the award for being the most pompous on these boards as you have comment about anyone who doesn’t agree with you, as for some reason you take it personally. You just stated earlier you wanted to block me because I am not a diehard fan, yet you don’t even know what my fandom is. You’re the typical SW fan on these boards that people hate because God forbid anyone has a different opinion then you!
I think you get the award for being the most pompous on these boards as you have comment about anyone who doesn’t agree with you, as for some reason you take it personally. You just stated earlier you wanted to block me because I am not a diehard fan, yet you don’t even know what my fandom is. You’re the typical SW fan on these boards that people hate because God forbid anyone has a different opinion then you!
I didn’t say I wanted to block you. I just said I can safely ignore you, the way an expert can ignore a layman. You have large gaps in your fandom, which is fine, but I am not going to learn much from you.
That might be pompous, but at least I didn’t make things up like you did. Never said I was gonna block you.
I love people! I love when someone has a different opinion and can back it up. Sadly, there are few people around here who do that doesn’t devolve into some whiny fanboy entitled rant.
prove me wrong!
As for your fandom, anyone who doesn’t see a Star Wars movie in theaters, where it is meant to be seen, is suspect.
Suspect? Just because I didn’t see Rogue One, yet saw ANH, ESB, ROTJ, TPM, AOTC, ROTS, TFA and TLJ probably multiple times in the theaters is not good enough? Very odd standards you have…..
Star Wars in a theater is an experience like no other. Not wanting to have that is weird to me, so again, you do what you like, no one is stopping you.
Theater experience like half of the people eating loudly, laughing when its not funny and so on ? NO, the days when cinema is the only best way to enjoy a movie are over. U can set up a home theater wit 2+m TV screen or a projector + good sound system and u can get the cinematic experience also.
That is why you fail.
also, never been a theater where people are “leafing” and I hope I never am!
corrected translation – well not everyone is a native speaker or perfect in english, btw how many languages do u speak (including your mother tongue) ?
I wasn’t aware, but not that it matters but I spoke two languages.
it’s not a sign of anything, but I am sure you speak more and are therefore better than me.
I don’t know Uncle Deadly. I’ve read your other comments, and while I don’t agree with your assessment of TLJ, you at least can have intelligent discussion. Calling a fans love for Star Wars “suspect” because they didn’t get into the animated series and aren’t into the spinoffs seems a bit ridiculous.
My dad grew up when the ANH came out and has seen every SW Movie in the Saga since. Multiple, multiple times. He knows his shit. He’s never watched The Clone Wars, Rebels, and has maybe read one EU book. I don’t think that takes away from his fandom or makes his opinion any less valid.
My dad has a room in his basement that is loaded with thousands of $$ of Star Wars merchandise. Action figures from every movie from ‘77 to now. Movie posters, light sabers, board games, etc. I don’t have hardly the collection he has, yet that doesn’t make my fandom “suspect.” He likes to spend his extra time and money on collecting, I like to spend mine on breweries. Point is, your opinion about Star Wars is just as valid as any fans, but your opinion on how valid another’s fandom is, is not.
There are different levels of fandom and I never said any were better or worse.
but I am not just a fan of the Skywalker Saga. I am a fan of Star Wars.
The level of discourse I am looking for is usually beyond that.
I think an opinion can be valid, but when you are missing so much from the Star Wars lore that then helps you understand other aspects and other people try to talk about that, but you can’t, it’s valid to say “This is not worth my time discussing this.”
Agree or disagree.
But I bet your dad sees them all in the theaters. I just can’t fathom not seeing one in the theaters. That’s all.
Or people who worship Lucas, but ignore 6 seasons of TV he made. Seems..suspect seems right to me. Shrug.
Funny, all I said was “I will ignore you” and everyone acts like I am a monster.
But when he asked if this website only liked the movie because they want to go to the premiere…not nearly this reaction.
And when he then alleged that I hated anyone who disagreed with him, I pointed out how he misunderstood me and asked for an apology.
He refused. Lol, integrity.
But I will apologize.
http://disq.us/p/1ptd3l8
There.
Still waiting for his apology, but I don’t need it.
People probably didn’t jump all over that because it’s a running line used to bash people who liked the movie.I personally did not like it, but I think it’s a lame accusation to make nonetheless.
I don’t think you’re a monster, I simply think you used poor word choice lol too many people have been “revoking” others fandom for either liking or disliking this movie (it happens on both sides) and maybe that wasn’t your intention, but it sounded like it. Keep commenting though, you usually present an intelligent line of thought that differs from my own, and I certainly appreciate that.
People probably didn’t jump all over that because it’s a running line used to bash people who liked the movie.I personally did not like it, but I think it’s a lame accusation to make nonetheless.
I don’t think you’re a monster, I simply think you used poor word choice lol too many people have been “revoking” others fandom for either liking or disliking this movie (it happens on both sides) and maybe that wasn’t your intention, but it sounded like it. Keep commenting though, you usually present an intelligent line of thought that differs from my own, and I certainly appreciate that.
Just because a lot of people say it doesn’t mean it should be normalized. It’s an attack on a person that I find incredibly distasteful.
This entire thing was not about TLJ.
It was not seeing Star Wars movies in the theaters. I used poor word choice, yes.
But again: a Star Wars fan not seeing a Star Wars movie in theaters is missing out on something they can’t get anywhere else.
So you are a casual…
Cool. Now I know you aren’t on our level and can safely ignore.
I am far from a casual fan. I have seen the OT movies probably 500 times each in my life since 1977. I enjoy the PT (don’t love it, but it works in the context of the Saga that Lucas layed out). I loved TFA (saw it 4 times in the theater), as TLJ was the first SW Saga movie I didn’t like (saw it once). I’ll wait for the BluRay and watch it a few times as I hope that repeat viewings will change my opinion (it has happened to me before as I didn’t like Pulp Fiction the first time I saw it, and now I love it). I could care less about the Standalone movies, nor the Clone War Cartoons or other stuff. So I don’t know what you mean by casual fan? When it comes to the Skywalker Saga 1-9, I’m as diehard as they come.
Rogue One was a great movie and not seeing it, as a fan, seems insane to me.
The Clone Wars is stories directly from George Lucas. It also involves Anakin SKYWALKER, so I can’t imagine not at least trying it.
I watch and read it all, always have, always will. I just can’t fathom not seeing one in theaters. It’s the POINT.
That’s cool if you like that stuff as I am not demeaning it. I have a friend who is a HUGE EU fan, yet I don’t really get into the EU. Does that make me less of a fan then him? Then you? We’re all diehard in different ways. I love the MOVIES, the Saga Movies, that moves the needle on me. I saw Rogue One on Netflix and it was a good movie, but it is not something I will watch like the Saga movies. I may see Han Solo in the theater, but again it’s not something that moves the needle with me. But I will be there opening night for Episode 9 to see how the Saga ends.
No, I understand. We don’t all go for the same things.
Again, to repeat (for the last time): not seeing a Star Wars movie in theaters is like a sin to me haha.
But you do you 🙂
Then i will be a big sinner as i wont go to cinema for E9 and for Solo only if its good enough.
BTW u seems to me as that type of SW FAN who will eat every shit that will be produced. If they put a shit with SW logo, u will thank them and will argue to the death how good it smells and how beautiful it looks.
Simply there are many types of SW FANs, and now with E8 and #Di$ney (go on laugh it up) stuff its really hard to LOVE everything SW thats out there.
So telling someone (who clearly presented he is not just an average SW observer) he is not a fan or les a fan than u are is simply silly.
That’s funny because you should see my comments about the PT, about the EU, about how I really don’t enjoy Rebels, about how I think Dave Filoni is overrated and so much more.
Seems to me you are the type that demands people show how much they hate Star Wars in order to be proven a real fan. That’s “silly”.
I didn’t say he was less of a fan. I said he was more casual. Not seeing movies in theaters, not seeing every single movie, to me, is more casual.
I don’t really give a damn what you think because you seem to pick and choose my comments, ignoring all the negative things I have said.
Silly or not, I see every Star Wars movie. I think it’s silly to decide ahead of time what I will like.
Souhlas, Solo a 9 neuvidi me penize
Sadly, going to a theater now with every idiot playing with their phones and constantly getting up is annoying.
What ruined movies for me is that I have a huge TV and a great surround sound and I can sit back and enjoy a good SW flick.
Dan, I apologize. I didn’t intend to mean your opinions were not valid because you don’t engage with other aspects of Star Wars. I merely was saying that we are speaking on different interest levels.
Please accept my apology and let us move on.
Hey! We have something in common. I was in the theater with my girlfriend of the turn to watch Pulp Fiction. It was so inovative half the audience left before the end. My gf told me several times to leave. I wanted to stay till the end hoping it gets better. It didn’t and she was angry that we didn’t leave. A years or so after when the VHS arrived to local video-rent stores it became the cult movie it is today….. But in the theaters it was poorly recieved…
Rogue One was really good, a few problems like lack of a crawl with a horrible opening. I give the music score a pass because it was last minute, but shame on them for screwing it up.
Bye.
Are you off already? Bye then.
Well JJ certainly played it very safe for TFA – I don’t think he will so much for episode IX
I’m with you, I could CARE LESS about Rian’s new “Broom Boy” Trilogy. ZERO interest and I won’t support his further vandalization of the SW legacy.
Sounds like a lot of fun.
No tough questions for some of the gaping flaws and bad character development?
Well, considering there were no “gaping” flaws and excellent character development…no.
From a point of view……
Yeah, but if the original post doesn’t say it’s from ‘their’ point of view to begin with, and instead states it as if it’s fact, then what do you expect????
“Excellent development”? Sorry, to me Rey is the same at the beginning and the end of the movie. The fact that she’s her own parent, not got any training and failed to redeem Kylo did not seem to have changed her in anyway, but that’s just me.
Just like we didn’t see any change in Luke until RETURN OF THE JEDI.
Well, I’m not saying she will not be transformed by the end of 9, that’s a different thing, but in this movie she did not develop at all, she had already beaten Kylo in 7, she had proved strong with the Force, she had already had visions (plus Snoke was doing the interconnecting in this one) so I hope to see some change in 9, for sure. (Luke did change in 5, he goes from barely being able to pull a lightsaber from the snow to facing Vader and not getting killed while at it, and he lost a hand, too.)
And Rey goes from seeing the Force as a source of power that allows you to do things to understanding it as the fabric that holds the universe together, from a woman who looks for belonging everywhere she goes to someone who understands she has to stand on her own feet and forge her own destiny and from someone who seeks the next power, person or weapon to quickly save the day to someone who knows that the road to victory has no easy solutions.
But in both her case and Luke’s, the trials and lessons they learn don’t land until the final scenes of the film, and don’t create a measurable change in the character’s persona until the next film.
Yeah, I disagree.
Yeah, I disagree.
LOL, watch again.
She began wanting to Luke to come back and fight Kylo, then she thought she could turn him, turned out to be wrong and now decides she will fight against him.
Hardly the same.
LOL, watch again.
She began wanting to Luke to come back and fight Kylo, then she thought she could turn him, turned out to be wrong and now decides she will fight against him.
Hardly the same.
Throughout TFA and the first half of TLJ Rey is constantly looking to fill a void in her life. She looks to Han as a father figure, and then again hopes that Luke can be one too. Kylo Ren tempts her twice with saying that he can teach her the force, and that he can be her crutch. When she resists him again in TLJ we see that Rey now understands that she doesn’t need a crutch. She doesn’t need a father figure, she doesn’t need anybody. If that’s not character development, then no 2 and a half hour film will give you the character development you’re looking for. Not recognizing this as significant character development would be like not recognizing Michael Corleone’s development arch in the Godfather.
This is a very nice interpretation, thanks, but it is that, an interpretation, yours. In any kind of storytelling, the premise is always show, don’t tell (or leave to the imagination) What you mentioned is never shown. She doesn’t even say so herself, how do I know she now doesn’t need a father figure? I could also interpret that now she has transferred that same need of a father figure to Kylo, and that’s why she tries to redeem him, but that, also, was not said nor shown in the movie, it’d be just my interpretation. In the case of Luke in ESB, we see how he goes from almost getting eaten by a wampa to facing Vader, and we got the cave scene, which we can interpret any way we want, but the actual transformation is shown.
“…that she’s her own parent…”
Um…where did you get this from?
What about this gaping flaw:
https://disneystarwarsisdumb.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/does-feminist-science-explain-kal-leia/
Such a nice guy 🙂
Nice guy, terrible SW writer tho.
Nice guy, terrible SW writer tho.
Any rumblings from anyone here in-the-know about Lucasfilm ever developing a new franchise? Something that’s not Star Wars or Indy related?
They’ve been posting a bunch of jobs for a new animated series, but I bet it’s Star Wars-related.
It’s gotta be Ahsoka.
That’s a good point, and would love them to, but they can barely come up with new shit for Star Wars, wonder if they can actually create a new franchise.
I look through the SW art books and realize that 99% of the good stuff living within the collective imaginations of these incredible talents at Lucasfilm remains untapped and lingering in a parallel dimension of epic fantasy. These books only serve to tease us as to what we’re missing.
Now imagine if they had any of the great minds that gave us all that imagination that is the EU (Whether people like it or not, one can’t deny it was rich as a bank) working for them, but somehow LFL feels very constricted, like a very exclusive club, can’t begin to wonder why…
I call it tunnel-vision.
Shitty video and audio quality. Anything better? I’m not listening to to tinny barely audible audio for an 90 minutes
That’s really interesting.
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Bodhisattva image taken from Joseph Campbell’s “A Hero with a Thousand Faces”.
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Would loved to have been there to ask a few questions….
What a great guy! Thanks for posting the video.
What a great guy! Thanks for posting the video.
Still going around doing interviews and explaining the same old crap!!!getting tired of it!!!Let’s move away from TLJ!!!Maybe Solo will take away the bitter taste left by TLJ!!!
Yep! Again, no issue if you didn’t like the movie. And nothing I say can make you like it. But I think if we talk rationally, we can understand where we differ.
Give it time as I’m hoping to come around to TLJ the same way I came around to the PT. I now enjoy the PT in a certain context that makes it worthwhile when I do a marathon with the OT. The PT Anakin story never resonated with me and that is why I was lukewarm on the films. But now I watch the PT in a more ‘macro’ context focusing on the politics, the Jedi Council, Palpatine, The rise of the Empire, and it really does give more depth to the OT in that respect.
I hope that I can find some context to enjoy TLJ after repeat viewings on Bluray. Maybe the ‘Jedi must end’ and ‘Let go of the past’ theme will work in the context of 1-9 so I’m not writing it off yet.
I will never love TLJ as much as TFA but that doesn’t mean I still can’t enjoy on some level. I’m still interested to see how JJ is going to tie the 3 Trilogies together in Episode 9 (that was his quote). If he does that, then we could be in for something special in 2019, but I don’t know what context he will approach that in?
Man, I love parts of the PT and parts just make me so angry haha.
Well, “let the past die” is something the villain says. And he is wrong. The real lesson is “take the good of the past and leave the bad parts behind and make a new, better future.”
That’s what Rey is going to do.
Erm… slightly off-topic here, but related, and wanted to get it off my chest and ‘share’ it with you wonderful folks….. in the light of TLJ’s hyperspace tracker macguffin, how did Vader pursue Leia from Scarif to Tatooine ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
Regarding the upcoming trilogy, it’s a typo. It’s spelled t-r-a-g-e-d-y. Mabey Disney will be rethinking things about any additional RJ typos in the upcoming future. Fooled twice, shame on you.
Yeah, “mabey”…
GEE what could these wonderful deleted scenes be? MORE grumpy Luke? More Force-Facetime-Tootsy-Toes between Rey and Kylo? MORE Canto Bight social justice? JUST what I want to see!!
With how HORRID the Last Jedi was, the LAST thing I want in my life is more deleted scenes. More Rian Scenes = MORE BS.
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They are making Kennedy write this on a blackboard at Disney right now
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What was the social justice in the Canto Bight scenes?
Do tell.
“…the LAST thing I want in my life is more deleted scenes.”
Then you could…you know…not watch them.
The best take-down of TLJ haters yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSU1STltwS0
JJ knows how to tell a story in an epic “80’s style / Spielberg” fashion. A far superior filmmaker to Rian.
Indeed, TFA is actually a good movie and the script is much better “connected” and with interesting characters. TLJ is a mess from start to end.
Oh my Lord. I laughed hard.
It’s almost as if the narrator monitors this site.
As someone who wasn’t keen on TLJ I agree with a lot of what he said. Apart from where he said you either love or hate TLJ. I neither loved or hated it. I found it disappointing and a little boring. Also, not everyone who didn’t like TLJ goes around saying shitty stuff and some of the bad things people have been saying can be levelled at those who love it as well. It’s not a one way street.
this may be controversial… but I thought TLJ was ok. I’d go as far as to say it was the okayest star wars movie. But then I think marmite is ‘ok’ too, which the marketing would have us believe is impossible. BTW is that General Madine in your avatar? Even as a kid I thought that guy medically needed a barber.
Excellent analysis there. I think it’s actually more than just a take-down of TLJ haters, though. It’s a thoughtful critique of a flawed movie that happens to a.) not be particularly more flawed than any other film in the series, and b.) is still more enjoyable than most other flicks that have come out in the past year or so.
My experience seeing TLJ was very much the same as his. First viewing… what the hell was THAT?! Second viewing… ah, yeah, okay, I kinda like that.
I agree 100% with his point that fan critiques of TLJ often tend toward SUXXX!!! vs. RUUUUULEZ!!! and that no film, certainly no Star Wars film, can be reasonably dumped into either of those two buckets.
Nice find, Crixxx. Thanks, compadre!
I like Rian but I was wrong to trust him with a SW movie. I hope they pull the plug on him for the new Trilogy. TLJ is just so bad I dont see how he can be redeemed.
Its bad to you but not to most people.
Or you could just find something else to watch rather than demanding his movies be cancelled because you personally didn’t like his previous one.
Like he says in the Q and A the plot details of Last Jedi were made collaboratively with the story group. They wont fire him because they wanted it this way too. Personally I think it was the best Star Wars since the OT
I find this to be another cope out by Rian. The plot details of this movie can be summarized in a few paragraph which would go as follow.
The resistance is on the run. While they destroyed Star Killer base, it only proved to be a small victory as the New Republic is destroyed.
After the map was finally discovered, Rey a force sensitive human has been sent by Leia to bring back her brother. Rey also wishes to find her place and understand why this feeling inside of her has awakened.
Kylo is torn is being torn by the light and the dark. After the verbal abuse by his master becomes to much he decides to kill him and take over as the supreme leader.
Luke, a broken man, who at one point contemplated killing his nephew decides that he needs to get over his failure and return to help the revive the resistance who is on the brink of destruction.
Now if I were to look at a summary of the plot, I would say, “man this could be a really good movie”. But it was not and that is exclusively on Rian Johnson, the man who is credited with writing and directing this movie. There are so many directions this movie could have gone with the summarized plot and the direction he took it was all wrong and in general, just a bad story.
I really liked the whole thing, others seem to have as well. Maybe it just doesn’t fit your taste. Can’t please all the people all the time
The /Filmcast posted a fantastic podcast interview with Johnson last week. It’s a hefty interview and clocks in at just under two hours. Johnson shares his experience with getting the director’s job for TLJ and takes the interviewers through the idea and writing process of TLJ. The interviewers also have some fun with him as they pose several fanboy-type questions.
https://youtu.be/ZQT-3JODB8k