Trevorrow might be the right man for Star Wars: Episode IX, but we won’t find out one way or the other for years, and that means a lot more articles like this along the way.
And I hope everybody would realize that that set of stories has affected me as deeply in my life as it has affected them.
Whedon once wrote a series of X-Men comic books; Duncan Jones had spent years playing the Warcraft MMORPG; Neill Blomkamp adored the Alien franchise; Rian Johnson was an unparalleled Star Wars nerd.
I’ve always found the intersection of fan culture and Hollywood to be endlessly fascinating.