Rian Johnson should be exhausted by now. Months after Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit theaters, the film is still being harangued by a segment of vocally dissatisfied fans who consider it a travesty and the worst installment in the decades-old franchise. And yet! Johnson still finds time to parry with them on Twitter, mocking the mens-rights activists who made a men-only edit of the film, sticking up for Kelly Marie Tran after she was harassed to the point of deleting her Instagram posts, and, now, weighing in on a nascent and ridiculous campaign from a group of Star Wars fans who claim theyve raised enough money to remake The Last Jedi altogether.
“Please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaase please actually happen please please please please please 
,” Johnson wrote on Twitter.
The director has not yet commented further. The remake campaign began in mid-June and was announced via the Twitter account Remake the Last Jedi, with this initial declaration: “This is a campaign to provide Disney an opportunity to course correct with the Star Wars franchise. The fans are completely divided and the core goal of Star Wars has been abandoned. The goal is to not make one half of the fandom happy over the other, it is to make a film that the fandom in general as a whole enjoys.”
On Wednesday, the account announced that, somehow, it had allegedly acquired producers who were willing to shell out the $200 million needed to remake the film entirely. The user behind the account also reiterated that “this isnt a joke, were ready to have the convo now!”
The whole thing is just an extraordinary chefs kiss, isnt it? My god, what a treat!
After Johnsons response, the tweet also got the attention of Seth Rogen, who waded into the absurdity by asking a few very sane questions: “Yo Im very confused as to what your goal is here,” he tweeted at the account. “You literally want to spend 200 million dollars remaking the last Jedi? And someone is giving you that money? I dont get it.”
The mysterious campaigners promised Rogen that they have actually found investors, a claim Rogen followed up with more logical queries: “How did you get investors without a script or stars or director or legal ability to make this movie?” he said. “Those have been important elements in the past.” And this was the response:
“Its a pretty solid brand so thats how the investors know theyd have a good shot at making money,” the account said, apparently in earnest. “To get the legal rights we would need a meeting with @Disney which would require getting their attention, we got yours didnt we? What did you think of TLJ? @HamillHimself.”
Exquisite. Simply exquisite. The account has also pre-emptively warded off accusations that its “remaking” the film for misogynistic reasons by claiming that it actually might hire a woman to helm this completely fictional movie. And it wants Tran to have a bigger role! And Rey to have a better story line!
Well, Bob Iger? Kathleen Kennedy? What are you waiting for! The time to remake that movie three very loud people hate, the one thats only been out for six months and made $1.3 billion worldwide so far, is now!
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