{"id":138293,"date":"2025-10-22T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138293\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:52:07","slug":"rian-johnsons-next-film-will-have-sci-fi-elements-but-not-those-sci-fi-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138293\/","title":{"rendered":"Rian Johnson’s Next Film Will Have Sci-Fi Elements, But Not Those Sci-Fi Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the release of Rian Johnson\u2019s third Knives Out film<\/a> right around the corner, the director has his sights set on his next project. It won\u2019t be something Knives Out<\/a>. It will be something sci-fi. But no, it will not be THAT particular sci-fi.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had to define it genre-wise, I\u2019d say it harkens back to the \u201970s paranoid thrillers. It\u2019s got a light sci-fi element to it,\u201d Johnson told Empire<\/a> about his next movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cLight sci-fi,\u201d of course, is not a way to describe Star Wars so, as usual, Johnson stood his ground on<\/a> a potential return to that galaxy far, far away. \u201cThat cog will be turning the rest of my life. I love Star Wars,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if some day it makes sense to come back to it, for both of us, it would be the most wonderful thing in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson is very excited about this new thing, though, and even though \u201clight sci-fi\u201d and \u201c\u201970s paranoid thriller\u201d isn\u2019t much to go on, we\u2019re in. Let\u2019s not forget that before Johnson made his wonderful yet controversial Star Wars sequel, The Last Jedi (and was tapped to make three more<\/a>), he dabbled in both thriller and sci-fi, most notably in the excellent time travel film Looper<\/a>. Plus, he also created and produces the amazing Peacock show Poker Face, which, the director is on record with io9 confirming, is also sci-fi.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely superhuman in that it\u2019s beyond reality in terms of what humans can do,\u201d Johnson once told us<\/a> of Charlie Cale\u2019s (Natasha Lyonne) ability to know if a person is lying or not. \u201cBut it\u2019s also something that\u2019s weirdly plausible. So if it means you\u2019ll cover it on io9, I think. Yes, it\u2019s absolutely [a superpower].\u201d<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, maybe he\u2019s just making a Poker Face movie since that show has definitely got some 1970s vibes (more detective serial than paranoid thriller, but we\u2019ll go with it) as well as that \u201clight sci-fi.\u201d We\u2019d be fine with that. But, we imagine, Johnson will do even better.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most exciting thing right now is this idea I have in my head for the next thing I\u2019m gonna make,\u201d Johnson said of the next project. \u201cAnd I think ultimately, that\u2019s all you can do, is just kind of follow your nose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s new movie, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, opens in select theaters on November 26 before its Netflix debut on December 12.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the release of Rian Johnson\u2019s third Knives Out film right around the corner, the director has his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327,35603],"class_list":{"0":"post-138293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-rian-johnson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}