Fri. Mar 29th, 2024


During a recent video for GQ in which he went over the films he’s directed, Rian Johnson elaborated on how he went about implementing humor in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

“Everyone has a different take,” Johnson said. “I know there are Star Wars fans who somehow think Star Wars was a serious thing like the Batman movies or something.”

After providing examples of comedic moments from A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, Johnson elaborated on how he views humor in relation to Star Wars.

“The slightly self-aware element of gleeful humor is something that is part and parcel to Star Wars,” Johnson stated. “It’s not the whole thing — and we get very serious in the movie as well — and I think that brazen balance of those two things is also something that is part of Star Wars. So for me, that scene with Hux and Poe, besides just being a hell of a lot of fun, was also something that felt essentially Star Wars to me.”

Johnson’s latest film is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which he wrote, directed, and produced. The sequel follows Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc as he travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects.

By Dave Jenks

Dave Jenks is an American novelist and Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Between those careers, he’s worked as a deckhand, commercial fisherman, divemaster, taxi driver, construction manager, and over the road truck driver, among many other things. He now lives on a sea island, in the South Carolina Lowcountry, with his wife and youngest daughter. They also have three grown children, five grand children, three dogs and a whole flock of parakeets. Stinnett grew up in Melbourne, Florida and has also lived in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico. His next dream is to one day visit and dive Cuba.