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Thanks in large part to the popular 2003 role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars fans in various online polls and Twitter chatter named this period as their favorite when they were asked what Last Jedi director Rian Johnson should focus on for his still-mysterious trilogy. He played the game and loves it too, but it's just not compelling enough.
"I played that game when it first came out and it was like, god, I loved it. Yeah, that’s a fantastic game. And I understand it, the instinct to automatically go to something that you know and love, that you’ve already seen." And yet Johnson rejects that instinct. "To me," he says, "what’s really fun is the notion of what new stuff are we gonna see, what new stories can we tell?"
"I played that game when it first came out and it was like, god, I loved it. Yeah, that’s a fantastic game. And I understand it, the instinct to automatically go to something that you know and love, that you’ve already seen." And yet Johnson rejects that instinct. "To me," he says, "what’s really fun is the notion of what new stuff are we gonna see, what new stories can we tell?"