How Can J.J. Abrams Follow-Up Directing 'Star Wars' - The Director Answers

The film was directed by none other than J.J. Abrams and now, this chapter is also directed by Abrams. However, when you do something as iconic as Star Wars, how can you follow up something like that.

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We are just a few days away from the release of a phenomenon that has been Star Wars - supposedly last installment, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. As we know, the last original Star Wars film that was Star Wars: The Force Awakens turned out to be a massive success with immense critical acclaim.

The film was directed by none other than J.J. Abrams and now, this chapter is also directed by Abrams. However, when you do something as iconic as Star Wars, how can you follow up something like that. In an interview with Variety, Abrams said, "I’d love to direct a play. “Jerry Maguire” — its humor and its charm and its emotional resonance is something that interests me as much as anything. To me, the greatest visual effect is Daisy Ridley’s eyes, or what John Boyega or Oscar Isaac or Adam Driver bring. Those are the moments that to me are the most moving."

On the experience of making The Rise of Skywalker, Abrams said, Well, on the one hand, I feel like there’s no difference doing a big “Star Wars” film than there is doing a dramatic scene in a TV series. It’s all going to be about who the characters are and what they’re wrestling with. But the scope of this movie was so crazy. Having to focus on the emotional intimacy, you know, what’s really moving about the story, and at the same time deal with the logistics, which were pretty vast, that was the thing that gave me a sort of newfound respect for every department and all the work that was done. The number of moving pieces — I get a headache just trying to think about what was done to move these mountains so we could be shooting the sequences that we did."

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