STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Director Says His Luke Skywalker Was "100% Consistent" With The Original Trilogy

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Director Says His Luke Skywalker Was "100% Consistent" With The Original Trilogy

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a critical and commercial hit but it divided the fanbase and much of that can be blamed on Rian Johnson's portrayal of Luke Skywalker, right? Well, the director has a response!

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By JoshWilding - Nov 07, 2018 02:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Star Wars: The Last Jedi broke box office records and earned acclaim from critics but many fans were divided on the sequel and that led to a surprising amount of backlash. The main problem appears to be the way Luke Skywalker was portrayed and many claim that the character's legacy has been tarnished beyond repair after what writer and director Rian Johnson did. 

Well, the filmmaker is still fielding attacks on social media and when one fan proclaimed that it was "bad storytelling" to make so many changes to Luke in the movie, Johnson was quick to respond:


Burn! 

This is clearly an issue that fans of Star Wars will remain divided on and nothing Johnson says will probably change that at this stage. However, Lucasfilm is clearly happy with the movie Johnson delivered because he's been hired to write and direct an entire new trilogy set outside the Skywalker Saga. 

There's no word on when that will be released as of right now as it seems Disney is holding off until Episode IX is released before making any decisions. What do you think about the director's remarks? Share your thoughts in the usual place.
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Kumkani
Kumkani - 11/7/2018, 2:11 AM
Just when I thought we stopped having The Last Jedi articles...
CinemaJackXCI
CinemaJackXCI - 11/7/2018, 2:12 AM
Except not, like, at all.
cj5590
cj5590 - 11/7/2018, 3:03 AM
@CinemaJackXCI - it was as consistent as my bowel movements. An inconsistent blue squirt.
CinemaJackXCI
CinemaJackXCI - 11/7/2018, 3:49 AM
@cj5590 - lolol rian johnson would see it as green
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 11/7/2018, 5:32 AM
I thought the movie was pretty great and I don't even agree with him. I think it's very important to a person's enjoyment of the film that you NOT think it's the same exact Luke, and instead view his character through the lens of what he represents to Rey and Ren.
cj5590
cj5590 - 11/7/2018, 5:54 AM
@CinemaJackXCI - it's green sometimes too..
MutantEquality
MutantEquality - 11/7/2018, 7:43 AM
@BackwardGalaxy - he turned his lightsaber on in Kylos room. Didn’t even swing. And he abandoned the force, friends and the whole galaxy. That just doesn’t line up with Luke from the OT. Hell, he didn’t even call out to anybody to talk about it. #notmylukeskywalker
BrettMan
BrettMan - 11/7/2018, 7:50 AM
@cj5590 - Somebody was paid to design and build that giant damn thing to look like a weird animal boob and squirt out green milk. That thing's even got like porg poop on its arm or something.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 11/7/2018, 2:15 AM
Rian johnson comment?....Mamma Mia here we go again
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/7/2018, 2:18 AM
I don't know about "consistent". People generally aren't "consistent" in the way that we think of fictional characters, especially over decades. Personally, I found Last Jedi's Luke to fit with my own head-canon of a dude who has just seen and done too much shit to remember. That head-canon doesn't necessarily follow any particular EU story, but it comes from my reaction to how much he and his family have put up with after Return of the Jedi.

But if Rian Johnson is still, after all this time, focusing on whether his character is consistent or not...



The bigger question is always whether a creative decision is satisfying. And in this case, for many people, clearly not.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 11/7/2018, 2:22 AM
@Spock0Clock - "People generally aren't "consistent" in the way that we think of fictional characters, especially over decades."

Exactly. This isnt like 2 days after the return of the jedi. It's been 30 years
Origame
Origame - 11/7/2018, 2:34 AM
@Spock0Clock - well yeah, because a lot of people were expecting luke to be on that island learning all these new force techniques and to just come back pulling star destroyers out of the sky.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/7/2018, 2:41 AM
@Origame - People are free to be disappointed. Last Jedi was obviously intending to de-mythologize the original trilogy as a way of grounding and elevating the next generation of characters. That's... one way to go.

And while none of that bothered me personally, I think people's disappointment to it mirror my own with Logan. Setting aside whether you like them or not, these are two movies that embrace disappointment as a stage of maturation. And I'll grant you, it's at least more defensible than Snyder's absurdity, it's still approaching these heavily-child-oriented franchises from the perspective that childishness is something to be done away with.

They all want to "grow Superman up", and an argument could be made that it's all missing the point.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 11/7/2018, 2:50 AM
@Spock0Clock - You had to bring logan into it.



Well to fanboy logan again. I think you're missing the point of logan. Logan is supposed to show that you can be a hero, you can save people and be what children expect you to be. Logan throughout the film has lost all his friends and has all hope. He knows they can't save the world. Professor x and x23 reperesnet the comic fans who want him to be who he is. But he says isnt wolverine.

That's the point to me. He isnt wolverine. It's about "never meeting your heroes" throughout the film, he is tired, when tries to help get killed.

But finally in the final act he makes the decision to be a hero and save the kids, dying as a xman. He knows he is not comic accurate and this depresses him. It's a riff on the whole fox debate as a whole.

Maybe i'm misjudging what the director wanted but that's my view.
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