If you go look at the prequels, none of those movies are “rip-offs” of the OT.
I’m betting if Lucas was still in charge of the ST, then we wouldn’t be getting any rip-off or soft-reboots of the earlier movies.
Really? TPM was a rip off of ANH with extra boring bits added to throw you off, with the whole last act being ROTJ. And AOTC has more in common with ESB than TFA does with ANH. They just jumble it up a bit more and make it look like a video game to throw you off.
For a while, we were told that Johnson would also be writing and directing Episode 9. But recently we learned that instead, JJ was coming back for 9. Does anyone know what happened there? I’m wondering if Lucasfilm decided they didn’t like the direction that Johnson took the ST in, and decided to bring JJ back to retcon it?
Yeh, they must have really hated his take on the ST to give him how own trilogy. SMH