Я регулярно захожу в студию дисней, где они снимают новые части звездных войн, и каждый раз спрашиваю, придумали ли они адекватный сюжет. Каждый раз мне отвечают, нет. Я спрашивал уже раз 150 и 150 раз мне ответили нет. Смысл в том, что отвечает мне один и тот же режиссер, Дж.Дж.Абрамс, отвечает с неизменной интонацией. А я каждый раз с неизменной интонацией спрашиваю:
- Хороший сюжет есть?
- Хорошего сюжета нет.

- Есть ли сюжет без Мери Сью?
- Без Мери Сью не снимаем.

- Можно посмотреть звёздные войны без технического бреда?
- Нет, наши звездные войны абсурдны с точки зрения техники.

- Я бы хотел увидеть адекватное развитие персонажей, есть ли оно вообще?
- Извините, у нас нет нормальных персонажей.

- Логика есть? Мне для поступков героев сиквелов нужно.
- Мы ее никогда не пишем в сценарии и не снимаем

И ведь этот режиссер, зараза, знает меня идеально в лицо, знает, что я спрошу и знает, что он мне ответит. Но ещё ни разу ни один из нас ни жестом, ни словом не показал, что каждый из нас знает, что будет дальше. Бывает Абрамс курит у входа, когдя я захожу в студию, тогда я подсматриваю за ним сквозь стеклянные двери, он равнодушно докуривает, выбрасывает бычок и возвращается обратно.
- Что вы хотели?
- Мне нужны нормальные звездные войны.
- У нас нет.
- Жаль.

Иногда он общается со своим коллегой, райаном джонсоном, тогда, стоя рядом, я терпеливо жду, когда они закончат:
- А есть ли мотивация у рей?
- Нет, про мотивацию мы забыли.

Иногда он просто скучает недалеко от съёмочной площадки, когда все актеры на перекуре, и только я расхаживаю по студии. Конечно, он знает, что будет дальше, но не подаёт виду и равнодушно продолжает читать свой сценарий.
- Что-то я хорошо прописанного антагониста найти не могу, он вообще в сиквелах есть?
- Нет и не будет, мы не определились с его характером.

Это очень суровое, по-настоящему мужское противостояние, исход которого не ясен. Очевидно, что каждая сторона рассчитывает на победу. Впрочем, я уже согласен на ничью

Кормление личинок Непредставимого Пхы говном продолжается

>•Jason knows more about the reshoots but is sworn to secrecy. Says he heard about reshoots a long time ago for Black Park and Bespin Bulletin covered it as well as they could but those reshoots were for things we already knew so he lost interest and there wasn’t a lot to say on it. These reshoots he believes are a skeleton crew and supposed to be secret. Later says he doesn’t know what they’re reshooting, knows a little but doesn’t know if they’re just adding to it.

>• Suspected for a while that Poe Dameron would die in act 3 as his X-Wing was under tarp for quite some time. They didn’t think it had much use at the end of the film.

>• Says Rey’s healing or resurrection powers will come into play later in the film according to sources.

>• Jason’s sources are currently hearing the same as JediPaxis’ leak. Says not one-for-one. Finds it weird if he and Paxis were being told fake information. Says Jason’s latest stuff comes from the Sith fleet sources.

>• Says the scene where Rey and Kylo play tug of war over a ship is on Pasaana. The Knights of Ren are out there too. One of our heroes is on the ship. It doesn’t look good for the character on the ship after Rey accidentally force lightning’s the ship but it is a fake out.

>• Says the sources who gave him the Sith fleet info are saying Rey calls herself Rey Skywalker on Tatooine.

>• Some sources are saying they don’t know anything about Matt Smith being in the film. One source suggested they didn’t know who was going to be in the Rey’s parents moment and Jason speculates perhaps Matt Smith is the father or is the killer. Says sources before Celebration were insistent Matt Smith was in the movie and trades said he was in the movie. Calls the situation very weird.

>• Says the Wayfinders have no special powers.

>• Reminds people of something that was mentioned on a previous podcast, how the wayfinder opens up sands. He says that he now believes that to be the worm. Says the ground opens up and sucks our heroes down. Says Pinewood sources hinted at stuff happening underground that Kylo Ren is involved in.

>• The underground place is Ochi’s tomb. Ochi is the character they believe gets stabbed by the Sith dagger and was a Resistance contact who knew something of Palpatine or Unknown Regions which is where they find the Sith Dagger. The worm incident happens and our heroes are able to escape but they’re cut off from the Millennium Falcon, presumably as it was found by the First Order and Rey has a premonition that Kylo Ren is out there, so leaves to confront him leaving Finn and Poe to fix Ochi’s ship so they can escape. Rey confronts Kylo in his TIE, this is where the jump from the teaser happens then Rey cuts it and the TIE crashes about 100 meters away then Rey and Ren fight.

>• Says he heard Jannah was a Stormtrooper and got out, says her and Finn have that bond.

>• Heard Maz Kanata is in the start of the film on the jungle planet and is in the final battle but it sounds like she doesn’t have much to do.

>• Jason heard the same description as Bespin Bulletin on the wayfinders that they’re red pyramids and says Bespin Bulletin has more coming out on them.

>• Says a long time ago they heard of a secret Ahch-To set at Pinewood by the Paddocks which had Luke’s X-Wing there and Rey was wearing the helmet. A proven source told Jason that Rey flies the X-Wing. Say’s Rey steals Kylo Ren’s ship after their duel on Endor and flies it to Ahch-To and after landing she immediately blows it up and throws the Skywalker lightsaber into the wreckage. Luke appears then Jason and Randy paraphrase some lines from the scene.

>Luke: “What are you doing?”

>Rey: “You were right, you saw the darkness in me”.

>Luke: “The Force brought us together. You need to face Sidious as I faced Vader”.

>Rey: “I wanted to feel as if I was as strong as Master Leia but I’m not”

>Luke: “You don’t know how strong you are until you know how strong to have to be. Sidious will fill you with fear, with anger and he’ll use your weaknesses against you”

>Rey: “What are his?”

>Luke: “Sidious looked into Vader’s eyes when my father saved me, he couldn’t understand my father’s feelings for me. He thought love was a weakness to be used”

>• Jason says that later on Palpatine thinks he understands it, the family bond but that familial bond doesn’t actually work. Sources told Jason within the first 20 minutes of the movie that Kylo meets Palpatine and he wants Rey and Kylo to be Empress and Emperor of his new Empire. Sources say Palpatine refers to Rey and Kylo as the dyad which are basically the positive and negative of the Force. With Rey and Kylo together, Palpatine will use the Force to rejuvenate himself which was Palpatine’s plan all along. When this rejuvenation thing happens some crazy over the top Force lightning thing happens and it shoots up into the atmosphere brining a Resistance ship down

>• Sometime after Kylo meets Palpatine, Ren tells Hux and Pryde that they need to raise an army. The First Order don’t appear to know about Palpatine being alive in the unknown regions.

Rian Johnson Interview: On ‘Knives Out’ And The Future Of ‘Star Wars’

Younger people are surprised to learn The Empire Strikes Back wasn’t the consensus “best Star Wars movie” until maybe even the ’90s. It was polarizing for quite some time.

Right.

The trajectory of The Last Jedi reminds me of that.

I’m a little wary to talk about that, because I don’t want to sound like, I don’t know, like I’m defending anything or something.

I don’t think you have to defend anything.

So, I’m a little wary that even I answer one question about it, and not on you, but then a thousand other outlets suddenly pick it up and it’s like, suddenly, it looks like it’s just all talking about Star Wars.

Right. As opposed to everything we just talked about before this.

That’s the thing. But, as a kid, I distinctly remember being disappointed by The Empire Strikes Back.

Was that the first one you saw?

That was my first one.

Me, too. Because you couldn’t just “watch Star Wars” like now. It’s whatever was in the theater at the time.

I think my dad took me when I was really young to see A New Hope. Yeah, no, I remember, especially in the context of Return of the Jedi, which as a kid I adored. And so, yeah, I remember very vividly. But then Empire slowly became my favorite one. Look, man, same about you, we were in our twenties when the Prequels came out.

The weird thing about Empire was I had the toys before I saw it. All the older kids had been telling me how fun the original Star Wars is. Then Empire is released and my parents take me and it’s like, what the hell was that?

Luke gets symbolically castrated by his father.

As a little kid it’s like, I thought this was supposed to be fun?

Yeah. It sticks. That’s why that’s the one that, even though at that time I had that reaction to it, it stuck in me and it resonated with me. I remember the Prequels, that acrimony of the prequels. I think people forget exactly the tenor of the danger. We remember because we were in the thick of it. So, I mean, I don’t know. I think that anything with a passionate following always has a passionate following and Star Wars is that, even more so. You can’t be angry at one side of it when it’s also the reason the positive is so passionate, you know? It’s all part of the same thing and it always was like this basic thing. That’s why I love it.

So here’s a lot easier question.

Okay.

Your upcoming Star Wars movies, how do they end?

[Laughs] I’ll tell you exactly how they end! An iris shot to a blue credit.

So, look, I realize how guarded you are about your upcoming Star Wars movies, but do you know exactly what they are yet? When they are set. Exactly what it will be?

I’m where I can’t say anything about it. Still completely in process with it.

Does that ruin your process if you say anything?

It’s just, I don’t know. “It’s a process” means it’s a process. So that means it could change, it could shift. There are a bunch of moving parts with it.

So say three years ago if I asked that same question about Knives Out would it have been the same answer?

I probably would have given you some answer and then it would’ve been totally different from the movie that came out. You know, it’s something that you write and you work on.

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