Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” surprised many fans by upending a lot of the expectations J.J.
Abrams set in his trilogy starter “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Some fans have criticized Johnson for his creative choices, but Abrams tells Et Canada that nothing Johnson executed in “The Last Jedi” threw off track the narrative that Lucasfilm planned for the latest trilogy since the beginning.“The story that we’re telling, the story that we started to conceive when we did ‘The Force Awakens’ was allowed to continue,” Abrams said.
“Episode VIII didn’t really derail anything that we were thinking about.”One decision Johnson made in “The Last Jedi” that threw fans for a loop was killing off Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis) without revealing any of the character’s backstory.
Abrams’ introduction of the character in “The Force Awakens” led many fans to believe Snoke would
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