'Star Wars': Disney chief promises movies every year starting in 2015

‘Star Wars’: Disney arch promises cinema each year starting in 2015

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There are few film franchises that can explain to have influenced cocktail enlightenment as profoundly as “Star Wars,” a brainchild of George Lucas. A new “Star Wars” trilogy is unfailing for theaters, though here’s a demeanour behind during a franchise’s big-screen offerings over a years. Click by a gallery. (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

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“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (1977)
On a day “Star Wars” thundered into theaters on May 25, 1977, a film’s writer Gary Kurtz seemed on a radio call-in show. Kurtz recalled: “This guy, this caller, was unequivocally eager and articulate about a film in unequivocally low detail. … we said, ‘You know a lot aside a film.’ He said, ‘Yeah, yeah, I’ve seen it 4 times already.’ And that was opening day. we knew something was happening.” (Lucasfilm)

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“Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” (1980)
The second “Star Wars” film, a many critically worshiped film in a franchise, was destined by Irvin Kershner. “I unequivocally knocked myself out,” Kershner said. “I was means to go deeper into a characterization. we was doing a second act of a three-act play, or a second mutation of a symphony. That’s always a slower movement. we could not have a grand climax, we had to leave things ambiguous. My large consummate came during a commencement of a film, with a conflict in a snow, afterwards we told a story of a people.” (Lucasfilm)

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“Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of a Jedi” (1983)
The strange array came to a tighten with “Return of a Jedi” — a acquire finale for Lucas, who pronounced during a time, “There hasn’t unequivocally been one day in a final 10 years that we haven’t had to arise adult in a morning and say, ‘God, I’ve got to worry about this movie. … If we had to do it all over again, I’d have to consider about it, generally if we knew what we was going to have to give adult in sequence to get it.”

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“Star Wars: Episode we – The Phantom Menace” (1999)
Sixteen years after a strange trilogy wrapped up, “The Phantom Menace” began a new prequel trilogy formed on Darth Vader’s start story. “Phantom Menace,” that introduced new characters like Darth Maul (above right) and a much-maligned Jar Jar Binks, noted a initial time a entirely digital film was shown to a public. It was a usually “Star Wars” film to acquire some-more than $1 billion during a box office. (Lucasfilm)

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“Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of a Clones” (2002)
Anakin Skywalker’s mutation from a precocious, pod-racing child to a ultimate knave Darth Vader continued in “Attack of a Clones,” in that Hayden Christensen portrayed a gloomy immature Jedi, and Natalie Portman played his lady-love, Padme. (Lucasfilm)

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“Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of a Sith” (2005)
“Revenge of a Sith” non-stop 28 years after a strange “Star Wars” and was a initial to accept a PG-13 rating, due to several aroused scenes as Anakin turns to a Dark Side. “I had to spin him into a monster,” Lucas pronounced during a time. “It’s a tough story. You can’t make a man immorality but carrying him do immorality things.” (Lucasfilm)

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“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (2008)
The Star Wars star found a approach to a large shade again in 2008, despite in charcterised form. “The Clone Wars” centered on a wartime tales of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi and featured Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Count Dooku and other characters from a prequel trilogy. The film paved a approach for a award-winning animation array of a same name. “I am vacant during how it continues,” Lucas pronounced during a time. “It’s not something we approaching to happen, and not something we spend a lot of time meditative about perplexing to expand. This was combined given we wanted to kindle kids’ imaginations, enthuse them to be artistic and to consider outward a box.” (Lucasfilm)

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The Force is clever with Alan Horn.

At CinemaCon on Wednesday, a Walt Disney Studios authority pronounced a association skeleton to recover 3 “Star Wars” films by a finish of a decade — one in 2015, 2017 and 2019.

In between those movies, “we design to have cinema subsequent from that universe,” Horn said, indicating that spinoff cinema should be approaching in 2016 and 2018 as well.

The news comes 6 months after Disney acquired Lucasfilm in a warn understanding for $4.05 billion.

At a time of that understanding in October, a association pronounced it designed to recover a seventh live-action “Star Wars” film in 2015.

It has given been announced that J.J. Abrams will approach that film, while Oscar leader Michael Arndt (“Little Miss Sunshine,” “Toy Story 3″) has been tapped to write a screenplay.

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“Star Wars: Episode VII” will be expelled in summer 2015, Horn said, and will be followed by a subsequent dual films swapping each other year.

Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn speaks during CinemaCon, a central gathering of a National Assn. of Theatre Owners, on Wednesday in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote “The Empire Strikes Back” and with George Lucas penned a book for “Return of a Jedi,” and Simon Kinberg have been announced as a screenwriters of a spinoff films.

“I’m perplexing to start fresh,” Kasdan told Hero Complex in an talk progressing this year. “There are certain pleasures that we consider a tale can move to people that they’ve been missing, and we’re anticipating to move them that, and during a same time, have them feel that it’s all new.”

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At CinemaCon, Horn pronounced Lucasfilm is “consistent with a family imprimatur” of Disney, describing a new revisit to Lucasfilm’s Northern California campus as idyllic.

“There’s an 8-foot statue of Yoda, and we travel down a gymnasium and they contend ‘May a force be with you,’ ” Horn said, evoking delight from a throng of film museum owners. “And we said, ‘And with you, my brother.’ Because what do we say?”

– Amy Kaufman stating from Las Vegas

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