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The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson disliked Star Wars: Episodes I-III: 'My friends and I were Prequel Hate Central'

'The Last Jedi' director Rian Johnson says he disliked the 'Star Wars' prequels when they first came out: 'My friends and I were Prequel Hate Central. Everyone was ruthless at the time.'

Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'.Lucasfilm Ltd./courtesy Everett Collection Johnson previously praised the prequel trilogy in a 2020 social media post, celebrating the films' political subtext and formal accomplishments. "Lucas made a gorgeous seven-hour-long movie for children about how entitlement and fear of loss turns good people into fascists, and did it while spearheading nearly every technical sea change in modern filmmaking of the past 30 years," he wrote on X.

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