‘Last Jedi’ director says porgs are a ‘nightmare’ to work with

It isn’t just you. The internet has gone even more crazy than normal for porgs, those cute puffin-like creatures we’ve seen for two seconds, max, in The Last Jedi trailers. 

Most of that is coming from Twitter, where porgs were trending Tuesday thanks in part to the addition of porg emoji to porg hashtags. And Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has been stoking the flames by using a hashtag beloved by fans, #porgnation.  

As part of a social media Q&A offensive, Johnson also had this to say about his feathered friends: they were harder to direct than Chewbacca. Read more…

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