The headline is maybe a mouthful, but there’s so much awesome goodness in there that it’s hard to not include it all. The rumoured Han Solo Anthology film has been confirmed, finally, with a release date of 25 May, 2018. The screenplay is written by the father/son team of Lawrence and Jon Kasdan, whose collective…
Vanity Fair have posted an extended interview with Lawrence Kasdan, and if you want more reason to be positive about The Force Awakens, this interview gives it in spades. Kasdan talks about his relationship with George Lucas, how he seemed to be one of the few people to be able to “get into [George’s] head”…
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…
There have been some conflicting rumours regarding the overall schedule for the upcoming standalone films. The leaked Hasbro schedule listed Boba Fett for 2016, Solo for 2018 and Red Five for 2020, with episodes VIII and IX appearing in between. Lawrence Kasdan had always been attached as the screenwriter on Boba Fett. But when Gary Whitta was…
It’s a simple gesture, but this video is pretty exciting nonetheless: Seeing Lawrence Kasdan with J.J. Abrams makes it all seem so… real. As if the table read wasn’t cool enough. Yes, it’s actually happening: the ever-likeable Abrams is working with the man who gave us Empire, Jedi and Raiders to bring us the sequel to…
We know that Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg are each writing spinoff/origin films in the Star Wars universe, possibly due for release in 2016 and 2018. Furthermore, there’s reason to believe that these films will form part of a new series that will culminate in an eventual Avengers/Seven Samurai-style team-up film. But which characters will…
The very likeable J.J. Abrams has given some more interviews regarding Episode VII. MTV offers up the following quote regarding the release date: I will say that it is an infinitely better situation now than when they were saying that they wanted it in the summer [of 2015]. Before I even came onto the project,…
A persistent rumour for the last couple of months has been the inclusion of New Mexico in the list of locations being used for Episode VII. Well, the rumour just won’t die, which suggests there may be something to it. The Star Wars Underworld is reporting via their source that “Disney has signed a three…
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…
About a month ago, a little video called 4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again did the rounds. The four rules were as follows: The setting is the frontier The future is old The Force is mysterious Star Wars isn’t cute We’ll get to those four rules in a second, but here’s Abrams’ response,…
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