With the release of Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out film right around the corner, the director has his sights set on his next project. It won’t be something Knives Out . It will be something sci-fi. But no, it will not be THAT particular sci-fi.

“If I had to define it genre-wise, I’d say it harkens back to the ’70s paranoid thrillers. It’s got a light sci-fi element to it,” Johnson told Empire about his next movie.

“Light sci-fi,” of course, is not a way to describe Star Wars so, as usual, Johnson stood his ground on a potential return to that galaxy far, far away. “That cog will be turning the rest of my life. I love Star Wars ,” he said. “And 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.”

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