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Rian Johnson Admits He Had No Idea of Kylo Ren’s Death

Joseph ForbushBy Joseph ForbushMarch 4, 2021Updated:March 22, 2022No Comments2 Mins Read
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The sequel trilogy ended the Skywalker Saga with the last film, The Rise of Skywalker, but many questions linger. Each film almost feels like a separate entity where there is no flow from one film to the other. The Last Jedi, the highest critically acclaimed of them all, was helmed by Rian Johnson. Recently, the director offered some insights that he didn’t know what they were going to do for The Rise of Skywalker.

USA Today’s best-selling author, Sariah Wilson, sat down and interviewed the director and writer virtually. She also interviewed Daisy Ridley (Rey Skywalker). Sariah decided to ask Johnson a fan question that many Last Jedi fans want to know: Was Kylo Ren/Ben Solo’s death the plan from the beginning?

Me: "Did you know that Ben was going to die when you were making T L J? Did you know that from the beginning?"

Rian: "No, I did not. No."

Me, irritated because I realize that killing Ben Solo was not always the plan. Rian notices my expression and sigh of disgust

— Sariah Wilson (@sariahwilson) March 3, 2021

In this Twitter post, we see here that Rian, even though he doesn’t go into a whole lot of detail, says that he did not know that Kylo Ren was supposed to die. That plotline must have been exclusively decided with the production of The Rise of Skywalker. Rian confirms this in another quote: 

And laughingly asked me what that was for. I told him I had a lot of feelings about that ending and then showed him my Ben Solo Deserved Better T-shirt, which made him laugh more.

He explained that it was very much a full hand-off between 7 and 8, just as it was from 8 to 9

— Sariah Wilson (@sariahwilson) March 3, 2021

“Full hand-off” appears to mean that the directors did not work with each other at all as to the vision of the trilogy. Meaning, that there were separate ideas for all three films. The story of the trilogy was split into three parts, which would explain the discombobulated storyline. 

Hopefully, the next Star Wars trilogy that Lucasfilm makes will stick with one director, making the films flow better.

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