The Director and the Jedi Page #2

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No, that's ridiculous.

I'll throw out maybe 8:30 tonight.

- That sounds good.

- No pressure.

- There you go.

- Yeah.

Wow. Hmm.

Battle of Crait. Shot by shot.

Any questions, any answers,

greatly appreciated.

Page 1, reveal of the speeder.

Page 3, we have the fox tunnel here,

lead onto our trench.

I'm like the conduit of everything.

Everything comes to me,

and then I kind of branch it out

to who is responsible for it.

A decision by the Art Department

can affect special effects.

Action!

It can affect visual effects.

Make it look good, all right?

I'll be your best mate.

Uh, cool.

It can affect cameras.

To the creature effects.

The set builds.

So, it's very much a big group effort here.

Did I tell you this?

I've gotten a rush of tweets,

coordinated tweets, like somewhere else on the Internet,

there's a group that's saying,

"Okay, everyone tweet Rian Johnson

at the same time."

All from Russian accounts,

and all begging me not to kill

Admiral Hux in this movie.

- Are you serious?

- Russian accounts exclusively.

Look at this.

"General H ux, lovely personality,

"if you kill him in the new episode

my heart can't take it, #H uxLive."

We have 120 sets over 100 days' filming.

Even if I throw thousands of people

to build this, it's insane.

Practically, this is impossible.

They cannot physically build it.

So that means either we cut some sets,

or we combine sets.

It gives them more weeks,

and more time, and more turnaround.

And then we'll make it more doable.

It's really a house of cards.

Everything needs to be, like,

so perfect in terms of the schedule.

So we now go Ireland,

straight to Iceland, three days in Iceland...

I've eliminated a travel day. Genius.

And no matter we do,

nobody here knows any movie

where they had to build 120 sets.

And it's not just building the set,

because every time you build a set,

the lighting guys need to come and light it,

set dressing, stunts, special effects.

So, when you look at the schedule,

we have weeks where we're shooting

eight different sets,

and then they need to turn around.

It takes them months to build them,

especially a set like the casino,

which is a huge, giant set.

This is actually my first time seeing it all.

- Are you pleased?

- Yeah.

It's big.

One actor gets sick.

Rian gets sick for one day.

That has an effect that goes all the way.

It's like... House of cards.

The whole thing falls.

Everything has to be so perfect to get it done.

And it's not going to be.

Yeah. Good work. Boy, it's...

Yeah, it's tight.

It is 100 days. Walk in the park.

Jesus.

No, it's good.

It's good to, uh...

It's good to get my head, like, around it,

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