Rumors over the last few days claim that Rian Johnson will not continue with Netflix after the release of Wake Up Dead Man, the finale of his Knives Out trilogy, this December. Adding fuel to that fire are words from Johnson himself in a recent Rolling Stone piece, in which he discusses his next project, an original sci-fi story.
Johnson revealed that ever since he directed Looper in 2012, he’s been developing another original sci-fi project, and elements of that have become part of what’s next on his agenda…
“Right after I made ‘Looper,’ I spent several years trying to crack this sci-fi idea that I had. Ultimately could not make it work. I never really got those gears I described to connect. So it just felt like a high concept that didn’t have any innards. But elements of that ended up working their way into the thing that I’m developing next. So, everything comes around,” Johnson said of circling back on a previous film idea that the filmmaker had a tough time putting together.
So it sounds as if this could end up as either a movie or a TV series. Alongside Knives Out, Johnson has been working on two seasons of the hit Peacock show, Poker Face.
This comes after Johnson talked about his time on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and why his announced trilogy never got off the ground. Johnson just seems occupied with original content right now, so any hope of him leaping into another franchise is unlikely.
