J.J. Abrams was just as surprised as a lot of Star Wars fans when he read the script for The Last Jedi.
J.J. Abrams was surprised Rian Johnson chose to kill off a certain character in The Last Jedi.
It wasn’t like I just went to go see The Last Jedi, but I saw what Rian was doing.
The death of Captain Phasma caught J.J. Abrams off-guard because he thought she was “one of those characters that I felt there was something else [for her to do].”