"Rian Johnson has spent nearly 10 years building the world of Knives Out, and to great effect, but there's a league of fans who know him best from his sci-fi work. Johnson delivered a heady time travel thriller in 2012, Looper, before helming a now-infamous chapter of the Star Wars saga. The Last Jedi was surprisingly divisive, but those who picked up on Johnson's intent saw it as the breath of fresh air the franchise desperately needed."
""The most exciting thing right now is this idea I have in my head for the next thing I'm gonna make, and I think ultimately, that's all you can do, is just kind of follow your nose," he continued. "If I had to define it genre-wise, I'd say it harkens back to the '70s paranoid thrillers. It's got a light sci-fi element to it.""
Rian Johnson built the Knives Out world over nearly a decade and is also known for sci-fi films like Looper and his divisive Star Wars chapter, The Last Jedi. Johnson remains loosely attached to a proposed Star Wars trilogy but is not ready to return immediately; he acknowledged the trilogy's lasting presence in his life and left open the possibility of returning someday. With the third Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, forthcoming, Johnson is pursuing a new project that he describes as harkening back to 1970s paranoid thrillers with a light sci-fi element.
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