Overview
- In a new Hollywood Reporter profile, Johnson characterizes the long‑announced trilogy as “effectively dead.”
- The project, unveiled in 2017 after The Last Jedi, never moved beyond early development over subsequent years.
- Johnson has pointed to his commitment to the Benoit Blanc films at Netflix as the major reason progress stalled.
- Lucasfilm outlined upcoming movies without mentioning Johnson at Star Wars Celebration Japan, signaling a move to other directors.
- Johnson says a part of his brain will always be in Star Wars, yet his near‑term schedule runs through Wake Up Dead Man before a paranoid‑thriller project.