Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie has just made one of the most critically acclaimed blockbusters of the year in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, but in the lead-up to the film’s release, he found himself embroiled in the toxicity surrounding Star Wars: The Last Jedi. McQuarrie is friendly with Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson, and is also active on Twitter, so he recently got caught up in the vitriol that’s being spewed at Johnson daily for “ruining Star Wars.”
But the toxicity surrounding The Last Jedi isn’t exactly new, and as iconic properties are starting to be mined in unique ways, longtime fans of the source material are having intense reactions that can sometimes verge on the unacceptable. Such was the case when McQuarrie tried to engage with some Last Jedi fans, so when Collider’s own Steve Weintraub spoke with McQuarrie at the press day for Fallout, he asked the filmmaker for his take on the whole “toxic fandom” issue we’re dealing with right now:
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