This option is much less likely than the previous, but there is a chance that Disney could trust Johnson enough to simply let him do his thing. Remember, Johnson was hired to write the scripts for not only Episode VIII, but Episode IX as well. Even Force Awakens screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan hinted that, under Johnson's vision, Episode VIII will be a departure from Kasdan's collaboration with J.J. Abrams. "Rian Johnson is a friend of mine—he's going to make some weird thing," Kasdan told The LA Times in December 2015. "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 [Episode IX director] Colin [Trevorrow]. Those movies will have the Star Wars saga as their basis, but everything else will be different." On the one hand, exciting; on the other, completely and utterly terrifying.
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