Lucasfilm just released a brand new TV spot for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and unlike the recent international trailer, this one has a decent amount of new footage. Check it out!
Special thanks to Brian LaFrazia for the heads up!
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This brand new featurette takes us behind the scenes of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. Director Rian Johnson and cast talk about what it’s like working on the newest chapter in The Star Wars Saga. Love that new shot of the Millennium Falcon being pursued by TIE Fighters!
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If you were hoping to see lots of new footage in the international trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, you may be disappointed. This trailer, from Japan, is basically parts of the teaser trailer, combined with the official domestic trailer, plus a few new shots of Rey, Kylo’s helmet, BB-8 and C3PO. It’s nothing like the international trailer that was released for “The Force Awakens”, which added a lot more additional footage. Lucasfilm is trying to keep as much of this film as possible under wraps and they are doing a very good job of it!
https://youtu.be/I_tNoPEa5Oc
This, however, is a little more interesting. Japan has also released a new international poster for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and in it we finally see Luke igniting his light saber. This is very similar to the domestic poster that was released recently but Luke and Rey have traded places. Does that mean anything? We’ll soon find out.
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The Han Solo “Star Wars” spin off movie has officially wrapped up production, and to celebrate this occasion, director Ron Howard released a video thanking the cast and crew and finally letting us know what the title of the movie is called. Check out the video below where Howard receives a little help from a certain Wookiee that is still on set for some reason.
Hey #Twitterville we just wrapped production so here's a special message #StarWars pic.twitter.com/8QJqN5BGxr
— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) October 17, 2017
So what do you think of the title?
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It’s finally here! Lucasfilm has just released the first official full length trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. Only 65 more days!
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” opens on December 15th.
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The Hollywood Reporter just announced that a Obi-Wan Kenobi movie is in the works at Disney and Lucasfilm. This will be the third Star Wars spinoff movie and join the likes of “Rogue One” and “Han Solo”.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Stephen Daldry is Star Wars’ newest hope.
The Oscar-nominated director behind Billy Elliot and The Hours is in early talks to direct a Star Wars stand-alone movie centering on Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Sources say talks are at the earliest of stages and that the project has no script. If a deal makes, Daldry would oversee the development and writing with Lucasfilm brass. It’s not known at this stage if Ewan McGregor will reprise his role.
The Obi-Wan Kenobi stand-alone is one of several projects being developed by Lucasfilm and Disney that fall outside the trilogies telling the saga of the Skywalker family. A Han Solo movie is now in the final stages of shooting under new director Ron Howard and Lucasfilm is also looking at movies featuring Yoda and bounty hunter Boba Fett, among others.
Source: THR
Lucasfilm has released some new character posters for Luke, Rey, Finn and General Leia Organa from “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. So what is going on with the red theme? Seems like dark times are eminent for our heroes.
Update: Individual posters for Kylo Ren (or maybe Ben Solo) and Poe Dameron have also been released!
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Can Ron Howard save the “Han Solo” movie? It seems that Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm seem to thinks so as he has been chosen to take over the helm of the “Han Solo” movie. This week in a shocking announcement by Kathleen Kennedy, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were let go over creative differences. Who knows what happened behind the scenes, but things must have been bad if they were let go after principal photography for the film was almost fully completed. Ron Howard is set to meet with the cast and crew of the film and then pour over all of the footage to see what can be salvaged. This story is far from over, and although it may take a long time, I’m sure we will find out what was Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s version of the movie and how it differed from Ron Howard’s eventual version.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Ron Howard has been named as the new director of Lucasfilm and Disney’s untitled Han Solo movie, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter exclusively. The official announcement is expected Thursday morning.
The move comes two days after directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were let go from the movie they had spent over four-and-a-half months directing. Creative differences over style and tone came to a head between the duo and Lawrence Kasdan, with the studio backing the veteran screenwriter.
The firing sent shockwaves around Hollywood and beyond as the movie was about three-quarters through principal photography and the replacement of a director at that stage is near-unprecedented.
Howard, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter, will meet with the actors — Alden Ehrenreich is playing the iconic smuggler, Donald Glover is playing Lando Calrissian, with Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and Thandie Newton also on the roll call — to soothe a rattled set and will pore over a rough edit to see what the project has and still needs.
The movie was scheduled to shoot for three-and-a-half more weeks, with five weeks of reshoots built into the schedule — the latter a standard procedure on large franchise productions.
Howard, who won an Oscar for directing 2002’s A Beautiful Mind, comes to the Han Solo film with several connections to George Lucas and the worlds of Lucasfilm. He appeared in Lucas’ 1973 breakout film American Graffiti, and implemented Lucas’ 1988 pet fantasy project Willow as helmer. Howard also revealed on a podcast in 2015 that Lucas had approached him to direct 1999’s Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace.
Howard is considered to be a safe choice to complete the task, someone who will more than ably finish the movie while being a calming presence on set.
Howard’s recent movies include Inferno and In the Heart of the Sea, costly ventures that have underperformed at the box office.
Source: THR
This image has not been officially confirmed, but it looks like the real deal to me. With only 5 months to go until the release of “Solo”, we should be getting some promotional material and this could be the first one. This originally was posted on reddit and the image originates somewhere from Russia, as you can see by the writing in the main title. In this image we see Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich), Lando Calrisian (Donald Glover) and Kira (Emilia Clarke).
And another potential image has also leaked. Seems to be the reverse image of the above image plus the addition of The Millennium Falcon.
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After the mixed reception by Star Wars fans concerning “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, it seems Disney is preparing itself for the worst when “Solo: A Star Wars Story” comes out this May.
According to Screen Geek:
A source close to the film’s production has informed us:
Disney is bracing themselves for the Han Solo movie to bomb. They were worried about it before all The Last Jedi controversy, but now they’re essentially writing Solo off. The lead actor, Alden Ehrenreich, can’t act, and they had a dialogue coach on hand for all of his scenes. On top of that, the script is unworkable. It’s going to be a car crash.
I hate to say it but Disney is behaving like Warner Brothers when they tried to mirror the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Warner Brothers should have taken their time with releasing individual superhero movies accumulating to the formation of Justice League, but Warner Brothers wanted Avengers like box office money right away, and now they are stuck with a mess on their hands.
Disney knows it is sitting on a gold mine with Star Wars and feels it’s necessary to have a Star Wars movie released annually in order to apply that box office revenue to their year end earnings. But if you dont have a good story, just dont bother making the movie. The consumers of today have a lot more access to reviews from both critics and audiences that have seen a particular movie that they are interested in, and if those scores are low, they are going to save their hard earned money for another movie.
Disney’s goal should always be quality over quantity.
Here is hoping for the best, but like Disney, prepare for the worst when Solo is released on May 25, 2018.
Source: Screen Geek
