Through the interview with Rolling Stone, J.J. Abrams opened up about studying Johnson’s screenplay for the primary time:

“After I learn his first draft, it made me chuckle as a result of I noticed that was his take and his voice. I obtained to look at cuts of the film as he was engaged on it, as an viewers member. And I appreciated the alternatives he made as a filmmaker that may most likely be very completely different from the alternatives that I might have made. Simply as he would have made completely different decisions if he had made ‘Episode VII.'”

“The Power Awakens” ended with Rey (Daisy Ridley) embarking on a journey to search out the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who remoted himself from the remainder of the galaxy not lengthy after Ben Solo (Adam Driver) turned Kylo Ren. It was unanimously anticipated that Rey would practice with Luke, and a follow-up to Abrams’ movie can be an ideal parallel to “The Empire Strikes Again.” Nevertheless, as a substitute of the boyish and optimistic Luke followers know and love, Johnson gave us a Luke that was colder and cynical — one which was ashamed of his previous and embittered by the countless battle towards the darkish aspect.

Abrams described how he felt about studying Luke’s characterization for the primary time:

“I felt the most important shock was how darkish Luke was. That was the factor that I assumed: ‘Oh, that was sudden.’ And that is the factor ‘The Final Jedi’ undeniably succeeds at, which is fixed subversion of expectation. The variety of issues that occurred in that film that are not the factor you assume goes to occur is fairly enjoyable.”