After defending the much-maligned Rian Johnson-directed eighth installment of the Star Wars’ Skywalker saga for months, superstar producer and director J.J. Abrams made an off-hand comment this week that has sparked blowback from diehard defenders of “The Last Jedi.”
Abrams directed the seventh episode of the Star Wars Skywalker trilogy, “The Force Awakens” (2015), allowed Johnson to direct the eighth, “The Last Jedi” (2017), and then took back over as director for the ninth and final installment, “The Rise of Skywalker,” which hits theaters on December 20.
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