At its best, new Last Jedi making-of film is a touching tribute to old Star Wars
Enlarge / Three of the main characters in The Director and The Jedi. (credit: Disney / Anthony Wonkie / SXSW)
Warning: The Director and The Jedi is a film about the making of The Last Jedi, therefore this review contains potential spoilers for the most recent Star Wars film.
AUSTIN, Texas-It may come with resources you can't find anywhere else, but helming a Star Wars film is no walk in the park. To start, it involves sky-high expectations, continent-spanning production schedules, and perhaps unrivaled levels of fan obsession (including possible Russian social accounts lobbying for General Hux to live, seriously). The House of Mouse now also looms over everything, inevitably demanding a certain box office bottom line.
That's a daunting task for even the most established of Hollywood creators-but it's especially herculean for a relatively unknown filmmaker. And that evidently made Rian Johnson's intergalactic debut with The Last Jedi the perfect opportunity for a full-length behind-the-scenes documentary, The Director and the Jedi.
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