While 2017 released Star Wars: The Last Jedi performed quite well financially raking in more than $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, it failed to impress some Star Wars fans.
This is the reason that a group of Star Wars fans or so to say a team of producers as they claim have come together to start a new campaign to remake writer/director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The campaign which runs through a Twitter account by the name of “Remake The Last Jedi” first tweeted on June 14. The team promises to consult Star Wars fans directly through the writing of the remake to make sure that the new version of the Last Jedi is as close to universally accepted as possible.
The tweets soon began to spread like wildfire and even gained the attention of Rian Johnson. He was quick enough to react to the campaign.
“Please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaase please actually happen please please please please please,” Johnson wrote on Twitter along with a lot of prayer emojis.
After Johnson’s response, writer Rachel Pendergrass came forward to suggest that the campaigners should make “a reality show of this production process.” Actor Seth Rogen also joined in but he seemed a bit confused about the campaign’s goal.
“I’m very confused as to what your goal is here,” Rogen tweeted. “You literally want to spend 200 million dollars remaking the last Jedi? And someone is giving you that money? I don’t get it.”
Frank Oz, who voices Yoda in the Star Wars films, was less than amused with the campaign as he thinks that the money raised to remake the Last Jedi should, in fact, be put to use for some good cause like for helping refugees, wounded soldiers, mental health, disabled police & firefighters, Lupus research, battered women, finding missing children and hunger.
Do you support the “Remake The Last Jedi” campaign or do you like Star Wars: The Last Jedi as it is already? Let us know in comments below.
please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaase please actually happen please please please please please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 https://t.co/mNpSjgovax
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) June 21, 2018
I really need a reality show of this production process.
— Rachel Pendergrass ❤️💜💙 (@sharkespearean) June 21, 2018
Yo I’m very confused as to what your goal is here. You literally want to spend 200 million dollars remaking the last Jedi? And someone is giving you that money? I don’t get it.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) June 21, 2018
Really? Really? Really? Not raising money for helping refugees, wounded soldiers, mental health, disabled police & firefighters, Lupus research, battered women, finding missing children, hunger, and on and on and on? You're instead raising money to remake a movie? Really? Really? https://t.co/uzr4WTJ9hQ
— Frank Oz (@TheFrankOzJam) June 21, 2018
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