Star Wars movies, and they have all been removed from those projects. Every so often, Disney will announce that another big-deal director has signed on for further
Star Wars movies, and it never seems especially likely that those movies will end up getting made. In a lot of ways, 2019’s
Star Wars film, feels like Disney apologizing to pissed-off fans for the decisions that director Rian Johnson made on
The Last Jedi, its predecessor, and attempting to erase those decisions. Disney is simply not willing to spend hundreds of millions to indulge a director’s whims when there’s Star Wars money on the line. When those hired directors fall in love with their own aspirations, Disney chokes them right out.
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The Midnight Sky sees Jones play astronaut Sully, who on a return trip to Earth learns that humanity has been wiped out. Her only contact on the planet is Augustine (Clooney), a dying scientist with a warning for Sully s ship: Don t return home. The film is full of sweeping landscapes and big sci-fi concepts, yet it is an understated final conversation between Sully and Augustine that proves to be the film s most stirring moment. George had already shot his part, so I was able to watch that, which was really helpful to then inform what I was doing on my side, Jones tells