Selvom Rise of Skywalker heller ej formåede at var det gigantiske hit som Disney måske havde håbet på, så står The Last Jedi stadig tilbage som det mest kontroversielle kapitel i serien til dato. Det var instruktør Rian Johnson der besluttede at tage serien i en anden retning, og selvom han har forsvaret sin film i flere omgange, så indrømmer han nu alligevel, at det ville have været en god ide med en testscreening eller to.
Som ScreenRant skriver, så mener Johnson at screentests hjalp hans seneste film, Knives Out, og at han ville have ønsket at det samme var blevet gjort for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
"It was like a party in the theatre, it was really fun. It was like the first time I was like 'Oh wow, this actually plays. This is good.' Which is really nice and that's something on Star Wars, you can't test Star Wars movies for a lot of different reasons. I've always hated test screening, and when we were making Star Wars, at a certain point in the process you're like 'God, I would give my left arm to put this in front of 300 people in Burbank and just see how it plays.'"
Screentests er normale for de fleste store film, men i eksempelvis Star Wars' tilfælde, så afholdes de ikke af frygt for spoilers.