J.J. Abrams is talking Star Wars: Episode IX!
The director spoke to Stephen Colbert at Star Wars Celebration on Friday (April 12) in Chicago, Ill.
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“This movie, in addition to being the end of three trilogies, it also has to work as its own movie. It’s about this new generation and what they’ve inherited the light and the dark, and asking the question as they face the greatest evil, are they prepared? Are they ready?” he told the crowd.
He also once again confirmed the late Carrie Fisher will appear in the film.
“You don’t recast that part and you don’t suddenly have her disappear. The weird miracle of having a number of scenes from Force Awakens that had got unused, looking at those scenes and starting to understand that there was an actually a way to use those scenes and continue her story, so that it would be her. The idea of having a CG character was off the table…we said, ‘what if we could write scenes about her so it’s her performance?’” he explained.
“Every day it hits me that she’s not here. It’s so surreal because we are working with her still, if that makes sense. She’s in scenes. She’s alive in scenes.”
He also confirmed the movie does not take place immediately after 2017′s The Last Jedi.
“Some time has gone by. This is an adventure that the group goes on together. It’s a story that I think one of the great things about the movie, getting to work on it, was the dynamic between the characters. They are just the most wonderful together.”
Billy Dee Williams will return as Lando Calrissian for the first time since 1983′s Return of the Jedi.
“Billy came on to the set…and it just went silent. Everyone was watching. It was so sweet to see the reaction from the people who were working on the movie. Honestly it was an emotional thing,” the director explained.
The upcoming Star Wars movie hits theaters on December 20.
Source: justjared.com