Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Labarin ya fara ne nan da nan bayan wasan karshe na The Force Awakens. Johnson ya sa ƙungiyar labarinsa ta kalli fina-finai kamar Twelve O'Clock High, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Gunga Din, Three Outlaw Samurai, Sahara, da Letter Never Sent don wahayi yayin haɓaka ra'ayoyi. Ya ji yana da wuya a yi aiki a kan fim din yayin da aka gama The Force Awakens. A watan Disamba na 2015, shugabar Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy ta ce, "ba mu tsara kowane daki-daki [na jerin jerin abubuwa ba] tukuna", kuma Abrams yana aiki tare da Johnson kuma Johnson zai yi aiki tare da (to) Episode IX darektan Colin Trevorrow don tabbatar da sauyi mai sauƙi. Abrams ne mai zartarwa m tare da Jason McGatlin da kuma Tom Karnowski. Lucasfilm ya sanar da taken fim din, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a ranar 23 ga Janairu, 2017. A lokacin samarwa, Hamill ya nuna rashin yarda da shugabancin da aka yi wa halayensa, yana ganin matsayin halayyar da ya fi damuwa ya saɓa da kyakkyawan fata na baya. Hamill daga baya ya ce ya yi nadama da sanya shakku na farko a bainar jama'a kuma ya kwatanta rashin jituwa da ya yi da George Lucas a lokacin yin fim na Dawowar Jedi.  Tambaya: Me yasa Johnson ya nuna fina-finai daban-daban?
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