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Imagine if Colin Trevorrow had been the one working on this instead of Episode 9

posted 6 years ago by ghostboy (652)
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I'll admit right off the bat, I hated Jurassic World, I thought it was dumb and had pretty terrible characters. And when I heard Trevorrow would be directing Episode 9, I was like no way, he ruined JP, there's no way he'd be able to handle a Star Wars movie. Now, I'm so curious if he had been tasked to tackle Episode 8, we would have gotten a Snoke backstory and a proper portrayal of Luke/Leia.

It's funny how these things work.

[–] SoCrates (868) 6 years ago

Well, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have broken the fan base like Rian Johnson did.

And both Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill seemed to like the direction he wanted to go, so I think it could've been good.

[–] Keelai (31751) 6 years ago

The problem is that Kennedy wanted Luke's heroism destroyed and then killed off. Trevorrow wanted to use Luke and Snoke for Episode 9 and asked if they could be kept alive, but Kennedy said no and then fired him. If he had been working on Last Jedi, then he would've still butt heads with Kennedy's goal and been fired. But, I don't think the overall movie would've been as incoherent and amateurish.

[–] JustinJackFlash (161) 6 years ago

It probably would have been worse.

Trevorrow is a bland director and never made anything with much depth. Whatever your opinion of The Last Jedi, Johnson made Brick and Looper before Star Wars. He's clearly a much more artistic filmmaker. Even his worst pre-Star Wars film, The Brothers Bloom, is better than Trevorrow's best.

I'd imagine TLJ would be pretty much the same but without that whole Rashomon bit giving Luke's character a bit of depth and humanity.

It would still be cliched, overly comedic and CGI driven.