The man who takes hold of the Taun-Taun reigns after JJ Abrams, has spoken about the task ahead of him and what audiences can expect. Looper director, Rian Johnson who will direct Star Wars episode VIII and IX says to expect more practical and traditional effects.
Ironically, episodes I,II and III never hit the big screen until 1999 with George Lucas stating that the technology didn’t exist to create the movies he envisioned. With JJ Abrams already vowing to go back to more practical effects including a full size Millennium Falcon and a plethora of puppets, Johnson speaking to the Girls Hoodies podcast says that the tide is turning. “I think people are coming back around to practical effects. It feels like there is sort of that gravity pulling us back toward it. I think that more and more people are hitting kind of a critical mass in terms of the CG-driven action scene lending itself to a very specific type of action scene, where physics go out the window and it becomes so big so quick. I probably sound like a grumpy old man talking about it,” Johnson continued. “I do wonder because I think kids are growing up watching those and that’s the thing that they love now, so I don’t know whether it is a generational thing, and it could be.”
With rumours flying through hyperspace about a blu-ray release of the original trilogy, untouched, Star Wars fans seem to be in very good hands with Abrams and Johnson.
