A couple of excellent articles have been posted in the last couple of days regarding the 40th anniversary of Industrial Light and Magic and Kathleen Kennedy’s approach to making the new Star Wars movies. Both are worth reading in full, but here I want to focus on the comments about the prequel trilogy. Kennedy brings…
There’s been a lot of consternation among some fans as to George Lucas’ lack of involvement in the new movies, particularly The Force Awakens. Sure, he wrote the initial treatments for Episodes VII-IX, but in January he very pointedly said the following: The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision…
Episode VII was initially announced for summer (presumably May) 2015, but word on the street was that, as pre-production progressed and Lawrence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams rewrote Michael Arndt’s draft script, Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy approached Disney CEO Bob Iger for a May 2016 release date instead. Iger compromised and gave them a December 2015…
This is rather surprising news. Lucasfilm have just announced Josh Trank as the director for another spinoff film. Trank previously directed Chronicle in 2012 and is currently filming the upcoming Fantastic Four movie (from a screenplay co-written by Simon Kinberg). Here’s a 2012 interview with Trank where he name-checks Star Wars quite a bit: So…
Two pieces of Episode VII news today, one coming from the official Star Wars blog and the other coming straight from the horse’s mouth. Firstly, R2-D2 will be in Star Wars: Episode VII. What of a certain golden protocol droid? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see… The photo of J.J. Abrams, Kathleen…
The big Episode VII news isn’t really that big, but it is kind of cool. Bad Robot (J.J. Abrams’ production company) posted the below tweet featuring Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy and a little-known droid called Artoo-Detoo: Hi from the workshop! #StarWarsVII pic.twitter.com/9R7JGSfxlC — Bad Robot (@bad_robot) November 14, 2013 So there’s our first character confirmation: Artoo-Detoo.…
Deadline has posted a few relevant quotes from J.J. Abrams on the removal of Michael Arndt from scripting duties on Episode VII: “It became clear that given the time frame and given the process and the way the thing was going that working with Larry in this way was going to get us where we…
Well, one rumour can now be put to rest. StarWars.com has now confirmed the oft-heard rumour that Episode VII would be released late 2015. Specifically, Star Wars: Episode VII will be released December 18, 2015. As Disney CEO Bob Iger noted to shareholders, this is the same release date that Avatar was given in 2009. Earlier…
Like sands through the hourglass… In our last instalment, Kathleen Kennedy was butting heads with Bob Iger over the release date for Episode VII, with Kennedy pushing for a 2016 release while Iger flatly refusing to budge from the expected summer 2015 release. Meanwhile, StarWars.com were only listing an open-ended 2015 release. The long-standing rumour,…
This is interesting… and kind of worrying. The Hollywood Reporter has posted a story claiming that Kathleen Kennedy is pushing for a 2016 release date for Episode VII while Disney CEO Bob Iger is adamant that the film must make its scheduled summer 2015 release date “at all costs”. That’s sort of in line with…
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