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  • Disney Hopes You’re Ready For A Whole Lot More Star Wars

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    Photo courtesy loadpaper.com

    And by a lot of Star Wars, I mean a metric shit ton of Star Wars.

    Disney announced today at CinemaCon that they plan on releasing a Star Wars film every year beginning with Episode VII in 2015. They would alternate years with a movie in the new trilogy and one of the standalone films the next summer.

    J.J. Abrams is hard at work with pre-production of Episode VII which we will just call The Phantom Nerfherder for now and screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinburg are rumored to be working on one or more of the stand alone films which are shrouded in even more mystery than Episode VII.

    Now I love me some Star Wars, but damn Disney. Every year? No matter how big the property is there is going to be a saturation point and people will stop caring. The prequels did enough damage to the legacy of Star Wars so let’s pull back the reins a bit. Star Wars movies are an event. If we get one every year for at the very least next six years beginning in 2015, people (like me) could get very tired, very quickly.

    Honestly I would rather get to play 1313 and get a new trilogy.

  • Star Wars Spinoff Movies Confirmed, Will Center On Young Han And Boba Fett

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    Photo courtesy iruntheinternet.com

    In news that really didn’t surprise anyone, Disney is damn sure going to get their $4 billion worth out of the Star Wars license.

    In other news that may surprise, the rumored standalone Star Wars films that will center on stories outside the new trilogy are officially happening with Empire scribe Lawrence Kasdan and Sherlock Holmes writer Simon Kinberg working on the scripts.

    But we already heard about that. I hear you exclaiming.

    I know that. The surprising part is that it has been found out that one movie will focus on a young Han Solo and his origin story and the second will center on everyone’s favorite Sarlacc dinner (yes, I know he didn’t die technically) and bounty hunter Boba Fett.

    The Boba Fett movie would either take place between A New Hope and Empire or between Empire and Return of the Jedi. Either way, as long as they get as far away from the horrible orphan boy clone in Episode 2, then we will be good to go.

    On the Han side of things, we don’t know if this will be how he met Chewbacca or if the Wookie will even be involved. The most fun aspect of this new Han-centric movie has got to be the casting. Let’s take for granted that a script by Kasdan or Kinberg is going to be pretty good. Now who do you find to take over an iconic role this large? And do you try to get Harrison Ford to come back? Maybe have Han reflecting back on days gone by as he sits on his intergalactic rocking chair.

  • Star Wars Episodes VIII And IX Have Their Screenwriters

    New Trilogy Begins To Take Shape.

    You thought Disney was on the ball by getting Michael Arndt so quickly to begin work on Episode VII? Well here’s proof that they aren’t playing around with getting this new trilogy into theaters.

    Disney has gotten Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg to serve as writers and producers on Episodes VIII and IX. If you are unaware as to why this is a big deal, Kasdan was the screenwriter for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as well as writing the script for a tiny film called Raiders of the Lost Ark. Kinberg has also written some top notch films as well including: Sherlock Holmes, X-Men: First Class and the upcoming sequel X-Men: Days of Future’s Past. 

    Let the Matthew Vaughn speculation begin anew with Kinberg being involved with second and third movies. Having the First Class scribe is only going to give that rumor more traction that the director may take over duties on at least one of the flicks.

    While Kasdan and Kinberg are now officially involved their exact roles are not known. It seems like they both will be producing Episodes VIII and IX and may either work on the scripts together or split the movies between the two of them.

    This delights me to no end that Disney could get Kasdan to come back and be involved in such a big way with this new trilogy. Now if we could just get past that whole wanting to bring back Darth Vader thing I think all would be well.