San Fernando Investor wrote:

Furcifer wrote:

People on reddit were claiming that Ridley and Kasdan verified in previous interviews that JJ actually did have written plans and backstories for Luke, Rey, and Snoke, but Rian Johnson just tossed them all out. No sources were provided though.

It's a likely enough story in Hollywood where outlines and screenplays get stepped on several times by different cooks. At the end of the day Johnson should have had the self awareness to say 'No' to the job since this toy box was not a good fit for him. Considering his pettiness on Twitter I fear he didn't actually learn anything introspectively about the whole ordeal.

However at the end of the day it doesn't really matter, because it's all crap anyway. The "best" JJ and $200M can deliver is a string of inciting incidents to breakneck FX cataclysm with no real reason, payoff, or emotional weight. It's a flat formula for a single film, and scales just as poorly for a trio of pictures.