Hear Star Wars 8 Director Rian Johnson Review Star Wars 7 Director J.J. Abrams' 'Star Trek'

Long before Rian Johnson was directing Star Wars movies, the writer/director was a frequent guest on the /Filmcast. Johnson, who directed Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper and Breaking Bad, has appeared on the show numerous times to discuss a broad range of topics, and to make fun of host David Chen.

One of those topics, oddly enough, was a film that not only resembled Star Wars, it was by a Star Wars director. Back in May 2009, Johnson appeared on the /Filmcast to review J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. To say a lot has changed since that happened would be an understatement, the most significant being Johnson will follow Abrams to a galaxy far, far, away. Still, the audio gives a great idea of Johnson's insight, talent, and knowledge of the sci-fi genre. As if Looper didn't do that a few years later.

If you'd like to download the 50th episode of the /Filmcast from May 2009, with Rian Johnson talking about J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, click here.

And here's an embed. FYI: This isn't the full episode, it's just the truncated version with only Johnson.