Lawrence Kasdan is enthousiast over Episode VIII

In The Force Awakens, en in voorgaande original StarWars film, was Lawrence Kasdan de screenwriter van de film. Maar voor Episode VIII en IX wordt hij opgevolgd door Rian Johnson. En Kasdan liet weten dat Johnson een geweldige richting op gaat met de nieuwe films.

“These movies will all be so different. Rian Johnson is a friend of mine — he's going to make some weird thing. If you've seen Rian's work, you know it's not going be like anything that's ever been in Star Wars. You couldn't have three more different people than J.J., Rian and Colin [Trevorrow, Episode IX director]."

Ook over de komende Anthology fims had Kasdan nog wat te zeggen.

“Those movies will have the Star Wars saga as their basis, but everything else will be different. Then Phil Lord and Chris Miller are going to make the Han Solo film and I can't guess what that will be like — and I'm writing it!”