Star Wars Universe (Rebels, Clone Wars, Comics, Books, Video Games) • Page 276

Fairly certain that is not new information. At the least, I’m fairly certain we knew he was asked to at least write it.

 

yeah, i believe i remember hearing back as early as 2014 or 2015 that he was supposed to write a story treatment. could see them asking him to direct after Colin Trevorrow was let go, but obviously that was probably unlikely

 

Yeah I thought that was news back in early 2017 and he didn’t do it because he had to focus on the edit for TLJ. So they signed JJ in September of 2017 or something like that

 

Now that I think about it, yeah, when he signed on to write/direct TLJ, he also signed on to write a treatment for IX with the possibility of directing. Not news. But still a bummer he didn’t have the bandwidth for it. Definitely feel like the trilogy as a whole would’ve been more well received, had he been able to.

EDIT: Yup, June 20, 2014. Rian Johnson boarding 'Star Wars' franchise as writer and director