(This post contains spoilers for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”)
Chris Terrio, the screenwriter for J.J. Abrams’ “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” disagrees with critics and fans who have argued that the finale to the Skywalker saga undoes much of what was established in Rian Johnson’s “The Last Jedi.”
“I think they’re missing the point, which is that they’re in dialogue with ‘Episode VIII,’” Terrio told TheWrap ahead of the film’s release. “It’s not that it’s a meta-story or a rivalry between Rian and J.J. Rather, it’s about taking the ideas that came from ‘VIII’ and trying to complicate them and develop them and to have some new surprises.”