Star Wars director Rian Johnson defends the prequels

Rian Johnson has leapt to the defence of Star Wars‘ prequel trilogy, which earned a not so nice repute when it was launched.

Beginning with 1999’s The Phantom Menace, then Attack of the Clones three years later and ending up with 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, this assortment of flicks coated every little thing from the ascension of Darth Vader to the spectacle of podracing.

Yet, regardless of its lower than beneficial legacy, The Last Jedi director seems to be a giant fan.

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– Every time Star Wars acknowledged the existence of the prequels within the Disney motion pictures

He replied to a tweet right now (June 29), which urged Twitter customers to “say a genuinely good factor concerning the Star Wars prequels.” And Johnson let his arms go on the keyboard.

“[George] Lucas made a gorgeous 7 hour long movie for children about how entitlement and fear of loss turns good people into fascists,” he wrote, “and did it while spearheading nearly every technical sea change in modern filmmaking of the past 30 years”.

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– Ewan McGregor says he’ll “enjoy” Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Disney+ present greater than Star Wars prequels

Featuring an unforgettably epic lightsaber duel between Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul, plus the underwater Gungan metropolis scenes and the return of a youthful Yoda, it is laborious to disagree with Johnson right here.

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