RELATED: Kylo Ren Knows Rey’s Secret in New Star Wars 9 TV Spot”I think [The Last Jedi director] Rian Johnson is an amazing filmmaker, and I just think that when you’re doing a trilogy, you can’t just abandon a story.
“All I can say about that is that The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed, but I will say it did present a lot of challenges in terms of where Episode IX had to go to finish the saga.
Sacrificing himself at the end of director Rian Johnson’s divisive The Last Jedi, the Academy Award-nominated editor, Maryann Brandon, has been discussing the problems that Luke’s death caused, particularly when combined with the real-life tragic death of actress Carrie Fisher.
So we had those two opposing problems, so I think what you’re seeing trend is that the setup was difficult to deal with.”