Episode VII and Spinoff Movie News Summary
Latino Review posted one of a initial casting rumors for Star Wars: Episode VII:
This is a name that has been thrown around a lot, generally given he has a attribute with J.J. Abrams. He seemed in Mission Impossible: III, destined by Abrams.
Sounds like he already has it.
He’s nothing other than
The Tudors (2007-2010) star Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
We’ll see if this pans out!
Patton Oswalt’s waggish “Episode VII” filibuster from Parks Recreation, now animated!
Wired speculates on what Star Trek Into Darkness could meant for “Episode VII”:
That said, there are rumors that former Star Wars faces like Harrison Ford/Han Solo and Carrie Fisher/Leia will return. And in a eventuality that they do, Abrams can hoop it. For all of a missteps in Darknesss self-referencing, he did a excellent pursuit operative strange Spock Leonard Nimoy into a 2009 Trek film. He only needs to gaunt some-more toward a fun, lax feel of his initial Trek film and not a trying-a-bit-too-hard vibe of a second.
Bottom line: While there are still a lot of pitfalls for Abrams to equivocate in his stirring Star Wars, they won’t be a same ones he faced with Trek. He’s a idealist during creation space eyeglasses and his “Mystery Box” regulation of gripping things underneath wraps until butts are in seats (and infrequently even after that) lends itself good to this dauntless new star of uncharted Star Wars territory. And, by his possess admission, he was always some-more of a Millennium Falcon fan than an Enterprise lover.
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Grantland spoke with Damon Lindelof about possibly or not he’d be concerned in a “Star Wars” film:
Now, it does sound, formed on what I’m hearing, like Disney is going to make 14 Star Wars cinema a year, maybe 15 if they can fist it in.
I’ve listened that, yeah.
So there’ll be a Jan Star Wars movie, a Feb one
Holiday specials.
I joke, kind of, yet clearly, they’ve got a array of opposite projects, and if we were a betting man, I’d contend they’re going to have to coquette with murdering a golden goose, and afterwards they’ll lift back. But I’d contend over a subsequent decade, we and we are going to get 5 Star Wars films, and it won’t be Episode VII, yet we competence be concerned in one of them when a vigour isn’t as intense.
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The Wall Street Journal also spoke with “Star Trek and “Transformers” writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci who addressed possibly or not they’d be doing a Star Wars film:
Is there any probability you’ll work with J.J. Abrams on “Star Wars”?
Kurtzman: we don’t consider so. Obviously a God analogy relates there as well. But we consider all of a slates are flattering full right now. we consider we’re unequivocally happy with what we’ve finished on “Star Trek” and a heads have been there, we know? They haven’t unequivocally left past that point. we consider right now we’re mostly vehement to lay there in a museum and be fans of a subsequent “Star Wars” movie. You don’t get that event unequivocally mostly so I’m not certain we wish to intermix it.
Meanwhile, Buzzfeed spoke with prolonged time J.J. Abrams co-operator Michael Kaplan who reliable he’d be operative on costumes “Episode VII”:
So will we be switching adult and maybe picking a duration play for your subsequent film? What’s entrance adult next?
Well, I’ve only schooled I’ll be operative on a new Star Wars movie, again with J.J. Everything only got formalized [last week], we haven’t even had a probability to speak to anyone about it all other than to be told acquire aboard.’ It’s a small too shortly to know accurately what’s in store yet I’m excited, absolutely, to get to work on another prestigious sci-fi series.”
Variety reports that Star Wars maestro John Knoll has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer of ILM alongside boss Lynwen Brennan:
“We have timeless supervisors here that positively don’t need me to meddle with their projects,” pronounced Knoll. “Michael Bay comes given he wants to work with Scott Farrar. J.J. (Abrams) comes to ILM given he has a good attribute with Roger Guyett. These things are already operative and we don’t need to interfere. (My role) is only to assistance from a comforts standpoint to make certain they get a resources they need, and to troubleshoot problems.”
ILM is in active formulation for a subsequent “Star Wars” design and Brennan pronounced a association is formulation to conduct all of a vfx for “Episode VII” and destiny “Star Wars” pics, yet she left a doorway open to subcontracting some of a work. The association is questioning a probability of opening a London branch, pronounced Brennan.
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Finally, supplement Josh Holloway to a list of actors who would adore to be in “Star Wars. Visit E! Online for his comments.
Star Wars Television
The large news of a week is Disney’s new charcterised array entitled “Star Wars Rebels.” StarWars.com has a press release:
Production has begun on Star Wars Rebels, an exciting, all-new charcterised radio array formed on one of a biggest party franchises of all time. Scheduled to premiere in tumble 2014 as a one-hour special telecast on Disney Channel, it will be followed by a array on Disney XD channels around a world.
Leading a growth of a array is a artistic group of well-developed talent. Screenwriter/producer Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class, Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Mrs. Smith) is an executive writer on Star Wars Rebels and will write a premiere episode. He is assimilated by Dave Filoni as executive producer, who served as supervising executive of a Emmy nominated Star Wars: The Clone Wars given 2008. Executive writer Greg Weisman brings with him a resources of animation knowledge with credits such as Young Justice, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Gargoyles.
Gary Marsh, boss and arch artistic officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, said, “The whole group during Lucasfilm has supposing unusual creativity and creation for over 3 decades, and we’re anxious to be bringing a expanded and talented star of Star Wars to Disney XD’s viewers.”
“I couldn’t be some-more vehement to try new corners of a Star Wars universe,” pronounced Kathleen Kennedy, president, Lucasfilm. “I consider Star Wars Rebels will constraint a look, feel and fun that both kids and their relatives adore about Star Wars.”
The action-filled array is set between a events of Episode III and IV — an epoch travelling roughly dual decades never-before explored on-screen. Star Wars Rebels takes place in a time where a Empire is securing a hold on a star and sport down a final of a Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion opposite a Empire is holding shape. Details about a uncover are a closely rhythmical tip during this point.
Star Wars Rebels will be constructed by Lucasfilm Animation, featuring many of a pivotal talents that finished Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Fans attending Star Wars Celebration Europe will be a initial to get an disdainful demeanour during a new series. Casting will be announced during a after date. More information about this building plan will be found on StarWars.com and on Facebook during facebook.com/starwarsrebels.
This, obviously, is what Dave Filoni has been teasing fans about on his Twitter feed. Sounds like it will be fun!
A fan posted a illicit video of one of a unaired episodes from a sixth deteriorate of “The Clone Wars.” This was shown during a Disney Star Wars Weekends.
To encourage a arriving Cartoon Network special “The Yoda Chronicles,” LEGO has built a life-sized X-Wing Fighter! Here’s a press release:
The LEGO Group currently denounced a world’s largest LEGO model, a 1:1 reproduction of a LEGO Star Wars X-Wing starfighter, in New York’s Times Square. To applaud a arriving premiere of The Yoda Chronicles on Cartoon Network on Wednesday, May 29 during 8:00 p.m. (ET, PT), a large reproduction took 32 master builders, 5 million LEGO bricks and over 17,000 hours to complete. The indication weighs scarcely 46,000 pounds, stands 11 feet high and 43 feet long, with a wingspan of 44 feet. The Model will “take off” for a summer alighting during LEGOLAND California Resort where it will be commissioned by a residue of a year.
“Just as kids adore to exam and file their LEGO building skills and talented storytelling, a LEGO Master Builders are always contrast their artistic skills to tip their final larger-than-life sized creations,” pronounced Michael McNally, Brand Relations Director for LEGO Systems. “The distance and constructional complexity of a freestanding indication 42 times a distance of one a sell sets was a plea they could not resist.”
LEGO Star Wars is a strange and many successful protected product collection in The LEGO Group’s story and stays among a best-selling tellurian fondle lines. The theme’s evergreen strength comes from a interest opposite generations to fans of all ages and a solid introduction of digital calm such as The Yoda Chronicles to enrich a building experience.
“Much a same approach that fans can build a Star Wars star with a LEGO sets, we are advantageous to work with Lucasfilm to build new stories, characters and vehicles by one-of-a-kind calm such as a new ‘Yoda Chronicles’ miniseries rising on Cartoon Network,” pronounced Nicholas Hort, LEGO Star Wars formula manager.
LEGO Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter Model Fun Facts
Contains 5,335,200 LEGO bricks
Weighs 45,980 pounds
Height: 11 feet / 3.35 meters
Length: 43 feet / 13.1 meters
Wingspan: 44 feet / 13.44 meters
32 builders spent 17,336 hours to erect about 4 months
Built in a LEGO Model Shop in Kladno, Czech Republic
Is a one-to-one reproduction of LEGO Star Wars set The indication is 42x a distance of a sell building set
The indication was heavily engineered to withstand all a transportation, setup/break down and to safeguard it was protected for Times Square given a transport complement next and California’s seismic mandate for a LEGOLAND California Resort installation.
How to Celebrate From a “Galaxy Far, Far Away” with Cool Content and LEGO Bricks “The Yoda Chronicles”
The Yoda Chronicles is an exciting, humorous and action-packed new LEGO Star Wars story told in 3 charcterised TV specials. “The Phantom Clone” will premiere on Wednesday, May 29 during 8:00 p.m. (ET, PT) on Cartoon Network with specials dual and 3 airing after this year. In a initial of 3 specials, a formula new character, Jek 14 will enter a Star Wars universe. Created by a LEGO Group, Jek 14 is a counterpart who has been ‘enhanced’ by a Force.
LEGO Star Wars Red Five X-Wing Starfighter
The many notation and picturesque chronicle of a construction set, a LEGO Star Wars Red Five X-Wing Starfighter, is now accessible as a ultimate collectible. This disdainful indication that contains over 1,500 LEGO bricks comes with a special arrangement mount and information piece label, is accessible during LEGO formula sell stores and shop.LEGO.com for $199.99 USD.
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Gizmodo has a full print gallery of a X-Wing as good as a video of a functions.
TIME also has an essay that sum a construction of a X-Wing.
Video Games
EA announced around a blog that association boss Frank Gibeau will give specific sum about their “Star Wars” skeleton during this year’s E3 Expo.
Our E3 lecture “The Download: EA 2013 Preview” will be a showcase of next-generation games like Battlefield 4, Need For Speed, a full operation of EA SPORTS games and a initial demeanour during a skeleton for a Star Wars partnership with Disney. Tune in on Monday, Jun 10 during 1pm PT on Spike TV or atwww.ea.com/e3 to knowledge it all. I’m fervent to your greeting in a comments and a forums, Facebook and Twitter.
Macrumors – Is “Star Wars: Knights of a Old Republic” entrance to a iPad?
Around The Web
Mark Hamill creates a warn coming on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno.
LA Times – Mark Hamill’s pants from “A New Hope” are adult for auction and we can possess them for an estimated $70,000 to $100,000!
Neatorama – Trek Wars cookies! Check out a tasty mash-up.
Disney Star Wars Weekends – Dance-Off With a Star Wars Stars 2013 culmination medley.
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The Hollywood Reporter has a good yet brief talk with Ben Burtt on jumping from “Star Wars” to “Star Trek”:
Coincidentally, Star Trek was an early change for Burtt. “When we worked on a unequivocally initial Star Wars we was in some clarity desirous by Star Trek a radio series, along with progressing scholarship novella like Forbidden Planet and War of a Worlds,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
In a end, Burtt gave an “organic” feel to George Lucas’s Star Wars galaxy. “To make things sound genuine as if they used tangible technology, a sounds would be subsequent from motors and aircrafts and machinery. We would record it in a bureau or aircraft hangar and move it behind [to a studio] and routine it a bit so we wouldn’t utterly commend it, therefore giving Star Wars a credibility.”
To keep his worlds separate, he gave his Star Trek star a possess set of rules. “I have always pronounced Star Trek should be musical,” Burtt explained. “If someone presses a symbol and a conveyor doorway opens on a Enterprise, it should play a small melody. That is something signature to a strange TV series. Most of a sound effects for that uncover were finished by musicians in a song sessions while they available a score. Gene Roddenberry was instrumental in pulling for any room [in a Enterprise] to sound particular and have a personality.”
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A hide demeanour during executive Kyle Newman’s “Return of a Jedi” retrospective, in that some famous fans plead Luke’s lapse to a galaxy’s “slimy mudhole.”
Entertainment Weekly has a longer chronicle of a video during a integrate featuring Kevin Smith, Seth Green, Chris Hardwick, Jaime King, Topher Grace, Fall Out Boy, Eli Roth, and Jason Mewes.
The Hollywood Reporter profiles Disney’s lead profession Brian McCarthy who helped promote a understanding to buy Lucasfilm:
Before The Walt Disney Co. could finish a $4.05 billion merger of Lucasfilm in October, a lead attorney, Brian McCarthy, and a group from Skadden Arps faced a daunting task: reckoning out possibly George Lucas indeed owned a rights to Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and about 10,000 characters and elements from a 6 Star Wars cinema and their several offshoots.
McCarthy, a conduct of his white-shoe firms Los Angeles office, narrowed a charge down to 290 primary, copyrighted characters. To arrange by them all, he fabricated a authorised group of bona fide Star Wars fans. we attempted to find people in a bureau who … didnt have to spend time reckoning out who Princess Leia was, recalls McCarthy. we was repelled by how many people knew a intricacies of whose father-in-law was married to whose sister. The top-secret routine formula names were employed to keep bureau gibberish to a smallest started in Jun 2012, and break time came during a six-week duration commencement in August, when as many as 20 Skadden employees (from $500-an-hour partners to reduction costly paralegals) pored over formidable chain-of-title papers associated to Star Wars and Lucasfilm.
The essay also reveals that 20th Century Fox still owns a placement rights for a strange “Star Wars” films that is an engaging footnote. Visit a integrate for some-more info!
StarWars.com – Read about how “Jaws” finished “Star Wars” possible.
Check out this IGN video featuring a conflict between “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” played out over San Francisco:
MTV News – Go in-depth into a good Ewok discuss – bushy agents of genocide or merchandising ploy?
The Onion – George Lucas reveals “The Events Depicted In Star Wars Actually Happened To Me”:
It should be apparent to any moviegoer of notice that we combined a array of rarely personal films with my famous Star Wars franchise. But we consider one of a things many critics skip about my six-part space show is that a works are many some-more autobiographical than one competence primarily think. we mean, it’s not like we dreamed this things upI finished these cinema a approach we did given a events decorated in them indeed did occur.
This is my life we’re articulate about here. And people need to honour that.
I’m not observant it was a verbatim transcription of a events of my life, of course. There was some artistic licensefor example, we wasnt ever indeed an X-Wing pilot; we was drifting a Y-Wing during a timebut we did blow adult a Death Star during a age of 17. (And don’t consider those Y-Wings aren’t only as tough to fly, either. They’re arguably even some-more formidable to conduct in a dogfight situation.) So, sure, there was some embellishment, yet a core events and romantic practice of a storyline are all unequivocally real.
Book Comic News
The Huffington Post talks to J.W. Rinzler about a arriving “Making of Return of a Jedi” book. Here are a integrate of critical excerpts:
On sex among a actors who played Ewoks:
I don’t know how many of that has been farfetched over a past but, yeah, a few people had humorous stories about carrying to hit on any doors that contained private places. we consider there was one Ewok integrate that did get married a few years later, that is not in a book, yet that did happen. What they said, routinely small people aren’t used to saying so many other small people during a same time — so it was kind of a new knowledge for them.
On a trials of a executive of “Return of a Jedi,” a late Richard Marquand:
Certainly George did not wish to have a repeat knowledge of “Empire” in terms of a time and a bill … George wanted coverage of each scene, that he didn’t unequivocally get as many of with [“The Empire Strikes Back” director] Irvin Kershner. It finished it harder to do what he does in a modifying room — and for George, that’s where some of a many critical filmmaking takes place, so he unequivocally wanted to get that footage and he was dynamic to get it for “Jedi.” And Marquand was kind of wondering during some points, “What’s my job?” Kershner was kind of — not accurately doing it like Hitchcock — yet some-more like Hitchcock. Saying, “I know what this is going to demeanour like. we know how it’s going to cut together.” That army a editor into a singular approach of slicing it together, and George didn’t wish to be handcuffed that way.
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There there’s another mention during The Huffington Post where Lucas maps out a prequels with Lawrence Kasdan and Richard Marquand behind in 1981:
Lucas: Well, anyway, Luke’s father gets subverted by a Emperor. He gets a small uncanny during home and his mom starts to figure out that things are going wrong and she confides in Ben, who is his mentor. On his missions by a galaxies, Anakin has been going off doing his Jedi thing and a lot of Jedi have been removing killedand it’s given they spin their behind on him and he cuts them down. The boss is branch into an Emperor and Luke’s mom suspects that something has happened to her husband. She is pregnant. Anakin gets worse and worse, and finally Ben has to quarrel him and he throws him down into a volcano and Vader is all kick up.
Now, when he falls into a pit, his other arm goes and his leg and there is frequency anything left of him by a time a Emperor’s infantry fish him out of a drink. Then when Ben finds out that Vader has been fished out and is in a hands of a Empire, he is disturbed about it. He goes behind to Vader’s mom and explains that Anakin is a bad guy, a one murdering all a Jedi.
When he goes behind his wife, Mrs. Skywalker has had a kids, a twins, so she has these dual small babies who are 6 months aged or so. So everybody has to go into hiding. The Skywalker line is unequivocally clever with a Force, so Ben says, “I consider we should strengthen a kids, given they competence be means to assistance us right a wrong that your father has combined in a universe.” And so Ben takes one and gives him to a integrate out there on Tatooine and he gets his small hideout in a hills and he watches him grow. Ben can’t lift Luke himself, given he’s a wanted man. Leia and Luke’s mom go to Alderaan and are taken in by a aristocrat there, who is a crony of Ben’s. She dies shortly afterward and Leia is brought adult by her encourage parents. She knows that her genuine mom died.
Kasdan: She does know that?
Lucas: Yes, so we can move that out when Luke is articulate to her; she can contend that her mom died when “I was dual years old.”
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Before “Star Wars Episode VII” hits theaters in 2015, you’ll get to see another product of a matrimony of Disney and Lucasfilm.
