“I thought, ‘How can this be retconned? How can we fix as much as possible from Episode VIII in a proposed Episode IX?’ And I wrote a partial treatment for that, attempting in that storyline to explain a lot of the really silly things that happened in Episode VIII.”
“I thought was a terrible Star Wars movie, and there’s no need to go into why because every fan already has,” Foster said to Midnight’s Edge. While Splinter is decidedly non-canon, as it was written before George Lucas started on the script for The Empire Strikes Back, it’s the first original Star Wars novel ever published.įoster’s other Star Wars work includes ghost-writing Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker for Lucas in 19 novel The Approaching Storm, set in the era of Lucas’s prequel trilogy and the 2015 novelization of The Force Awakens. Franchise veteran Alan Dean Foster, during a long livestreamed interview on the YouTube analysis show Midnight’s Edge, mentioned that he “thought it was a terrible film.” He even went so far as to write a treatment for the final film in the trilogy, which would do as much as possible to fix what he saw as the damage Johnson had done.įoster’s opinion holds some weight among long-time Star Wars fans, as he’s generally credited with starting the pre-Disney “Expanded Universe” with his 1978 Star Wars novel Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. The endless debate over the merits and flaws of Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi got another shot in the arm on the week before Christmas. You Are Reading : Veteran Star Wars Writer Alan Dean Foster Hated The Last Jedi He went so far as to write a treatment for the final film in the trilogy, which would do as much as possible to fix the second film’s mistakes. Veteran Star Wars Writer Alan Dean Foster Hated ‘The Last Jedi’
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