Star Wars: Rian Johnson RESPONDS to fan campaign to ‘REMAKE The Last Jedi’

The film-maker divided opinion with the eighth episode in the Skywalker saga, earning rave reviews from critics but stirring up a lot anger amongst social-media-savvy fans who took issue with Johnson’s bolder choices.

Now, a Twitter account called Remake The Last Jedi claims to have set a plan in place to actually make a re-do happen.

They said: “Our team of producers is offering to cover the budget for a remake of The Last Jedi in order to save Star Wars. Share this and spread the word to let @RobertIger & @Disney know you want this! This isn’t a joke, we’re ready to have the convo now!

“We will be consulting with Star Wars fans directly throughout the writing of the remake of The Last Jedi as the plan is to make a version of TLJ that is as close to universally accepted as possible! (You’ll never please everyone, but at least it wouldn’t be blasphemy)

“In fact we want the writing team to be a diverse group of people that both loved and hated TLJ, so we will have an inbox for story treatment submissions and actually hire people onto the writing team from what we receive! So this is your chance to write a Star Wars film!”

They added: “Iron sharpens iron and the best writing comes from a group of people who have differing opinions but can constructively work together for the best story possible. Not just one writer sitting in a room thinking whatever pops into their head is the best idea ever.

“The people in power think the fans who disliked TLJ are an irrelevant minority of basement dwellers who are just keyboard cowboys that will never actually effect real change. If you don’t want them to win then spread #RemakeTheLastJedi and let your voice be heard!”

Johnson himself shared the Twitter thread, captioning it: “please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaase please actually happen please please please please please”.

He has had 11,000 Retweets and 60,000 Likes for his quip, while Seth Rogen has challenged the group head-on.

“Yo I’m very confused as to what your goal is here,” he wrote. “You literally want to spend 200 million dollars remaking the last Jedi? And someone is giving you that money? I don’t get it.”

They replied: “Not just spend, invest, good ROI.”

Rogen continued: “Ok. Is someone actually investing money in this? How did you get investors without a script or stars or director or legal ability to make this movie? Those have been important elements in the past.”

“It’s a pretty solid brand so that’s how the investors know they’d have a good shot at making money,” came the answer.

“To get the legal rights we would need a meeting with @Disney which would require getting their attention, we got yours didn’t we? What did you think of TLJ? @HamillHimself.”

Rogen kept pushing, saying: “So do you already have investors? Like, you already got people to invest money with the HOPES that Disney will let you make this, which there is no reason or historical precedent for?

“I reread your other tweet. So from what I gather you don’t have investors, so Disney would just be entrusting you with the IP in the hopes you do it justice and are able to pay for it. Is that the plan? I’m so curious how this is supposed to work.”

For now, the Star Wars saga continues with the conclusion to the current trilogy in 2019 with the release of Episode 9.

That movie will see JJ Abrams – whose 2015 release The Force Awakens was criticised for almost exactly the opposite reasons to The Last Jedi – back at the helm.