Wow! Is this actually going to happen in “Star Wars Rebels: Season 2?” Darth Vader taking on his former apprentice, Ashoka Tano? That is going to be huge! This is almost as good as Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao! Sign me up!
Here is another poster that was released for “Star Wars Rebels: Season 2.” (But damn, that first one…):
Source: IGN
Today at Star Wars Celebration it was revealed that the upcoming “Star Wars” spinoff movies will be classified and called “Star Wars Anthology” films and the very first one is officially titled “Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One.”
Official synopsis for “Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One”:
A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans in Star Wars Anthology film, Rogue One.
The director of “Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One,” Gareth Edwards (“Godzilla”), had a few words to say about the upcoming movie:
“It’s about the fact that god’s not coming to save us, and we’re on our own,” said Edwards. “The absence of the Jedi is omnipresent in the film. It hangs over the whole movie.”
So far, neither Disney or Lucasfilm has released the official teaser trailer for “Rogue One.” I’ll update this article with the official teaser trailer when it is officially released. Until then, this is the best video that I could find:
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Source: Star Wars Twitter
It appears all the talk that Disney Infinity 3.0 will include a Star Wars theme, may be true after all. The German electronics website Saturn has posted (and has since pulled) a pre-order for the Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars starter set for the Nintendo Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 consoles. And the best part… a release date of August 20th, 2015!
The photo that went with the listing shows what looks to be legitimate packaging for the starter set, along with a play set piece, infinity figures and game disc box. The look of this packaging, with a black theme, seems to compare to some leaked photos of Disney Infinity 3.0 Originals figures of Mickey, Minnie, Mulan and others last week.
This photo can be both exciting and polarizing for Star Wars fans as the figures are that of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano from the prequel/Clone Wars era. The style of all the characters seems to have a Clone Wars animated series feel to it. Other notables seen on the box art include Obi-Wan, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Yoda and Vader. We can also see vehicles and mounts such as pod racers and a Tauntaun!
Star Wars day is right around the corner… will we learn more about this soon?
Josh Trank (“Chronicle”) was let go by Disney and Lucasfilm as the director of the second “Star Wars Anthology” film. The result of him being dropped means that there will be no “Star Wars” film in 2018. Disney originally planned to release a Star Wars film ever year beginning with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
Recently Josh Trank was scheduled to be a guest speaker at a Star Wars Celebration panel to discuss his upcoming Star Wars spinoff movie but was a no show. Attendees were told that Trank was suffering from the flu but a lot of people speculated that something was up. Variety has indeed confirm that Trank was let go by Disney and Lucasfilm.
The Hollywood Reporter says that most of this stems from Trank’s antics on the set of his movie, “Fantastic Four.” Trank was described by some as being erratic and very isolated and would not respond to questions on the set and resorted to hiding at times. He also rented a house in New Orleans while filming Fantastic Four and caused over $100,000 worth of damage to the house.
It does appear that Trank’s mild success from filming the movie “Chronicle” has gone to his head and both Disney and Lucasfilm were worried to hand over a Star Wars film to him.
Source: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter
On the cover of the June issue of Vanity Fair, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) re-unites with his trusty co-pilot Chewbacca, and is joined by some new faces: Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), and a little droid who goes by the name of BB-8.
VanityFair.com has released online a preview of the upcoming issue which finally reveals that Adam Driver will be playing Kylo Ren. Prior to this, it was just assumed that Driver was Kylo Ren. They also reveal that Lupita Nyong’o’s is indeed a CGI character and she will be playing Maz Kanata, some kind of space pirate. They also hint that the reason why we have yet to hear Daisy Ridley’s character’s Rey’s last name is because it is a familiar name, either Skywalker or Solo.
Vanity Fair has also released a behind the scenes video of the special Star Wars photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz.
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This Vanity Fair issue will be available digitally on May 7th and through newsstands on May12th.
Photos form the Vanity Fair Star Wars: The Force Awakens issue:
Snowtroopers and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver)
Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong’o)
Some characters from Maz Kanata’s castle
Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac)
JJ. Abrams directing Daisy Ridley (Rey)
John Williams (composer), Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Lawrence Kasdan (writer) and J.J. Abrams (director)
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opens December 18th.
Source: Vanity Fair
The next trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will make its premier on April 16th to attendees at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, CA.
When will we see it? Disney hasn’t said anything other than it will be attached to “Avengers: Age Of Ultron” but I have a feeling that we may see the trailer shortly after it premiers at Star Wars Celebration. “Avengers: Age Of Ultron” open in the US on May 1st but will open in Europe on April 22nd. Expect to see something appear online during the fourth week of April or possibly during the weekend of Celebration.
Last year, MakingStarWars.com posted the description of “The Force Awakens” teaser before it debuted and they were spot on. Now Making Star Wars has information as to what we will see in the newest trailer for “The Force Awakens.”
Source: Making Star Wars
Entertainment Weekly has given us our first official look of Paul Bettany as “The Vision” from “Avengers: Age Of Ultron.” This image is from one of the four variant covers that Entertainment Weekly released for their Summer Movie Preview issue
Here are all of the Entertainment Weekly variant covers:
Source: Entertainment Weekly
A promotional photo of what appears to be Charlie Cox in the red “Daredevil” costume recently hit the net. We still are not sure if this is official or fan-made but to me this looks pretty damn good. I’m hoping this is real but it’s not official until we get confirmation from Netflix, Marvel or Disney.
Blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, Matt Murdock fights against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the Super Hero ‘Daredevil’ in modern day Hell’s Kitchen, New York City.
Marvel’s “Daredevil” premiers this Friday, April 10th on Netflix!
*UPDATE: It’s real! Marvel just released this new motion trailer with the red suit!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwjB2uzFHw]
Marvel recently revealed the cover for issue #645 of the Fantastic Four and what makes this significant is that this is the final issue of the Fantastic Four. This is clearly a shout out to Fox that they are cancelling the series because of Fox’s upcoming reboot movie of the “Fantastic Four”. Just compare the comic book cover with the official movie poster for Fox’s “Fantastic Four” and you can see that Marvel is making a statement as to who is responsible for the death of the Fantastic Four. Although Marvel has never officially said this, it is obvious that they don’t want to provide any free marketing for Fox’s Fantastic Four movie. I am sure the Fantastic Four will be back in the comics after the release of the movie on home video.
Marvel:
This is the end of the Fantastic Four – 4ever! Be there when the most controversial Fantastic Four story concludes in the extra-sized FANTASTIC FOUR #645!
James Gunn, director of “The Guardians Of The Galaxy” and the upcoming sequel gave us a progress report on “Guardians 2”.
“I turned in my treatment. I’m going in to meet about it Friday and we will start working on the screenplay next week,” Gunn explained yesterday using the Periscope social media broadcasting app, later adding during the video that the script is “very, very far along.” How long? 70 pages long.
While discussing the progress of the sequel to “The Guardians Of The Galaxy,” James Gunn confirmed that actress Karen Gillan will reprise her role as Nebula in “Gaurdians 2.”
Source: Screen Rant
With “Avengers: Age Of Ultron” being released soon in theaters, Hot Toys has been commissioned to make life size statues of The Avengers that will headline a Hot Toys exhibition tour throughout Asia. The Hulkbuster comes in measuring 11 feet. Hope this eventually makes it over here stateside.
Source: ComicBook.com
StarWars.com gives an exclusive preview of Marvel’s Darth Vader #4.
In an attempt to create his own secret army, Darth Vader has teamed up with the mysterious droid archeologist Doctor Aphra and is lead back to the planet where the Clone Wars began: Geonosis.
Witness the Dark Lord’s bitter déjà vu in the exclusive preview pages below and continue the story when the book hits shelves on Wednesday, April 8th.
Source: StarWars.com
Our second episode of “WDWNT: Nerd Alert” will air this Friday night at 10 PM, which can be heard on WDWNT: On The Air. Nerd Alert will immediately follow “WDWNT: The Radio Show,” which airs from 8-10 PM.
This week’s news segment consists of:
This week’s “Topic Of The Week” will be all about “The Star Wars Original Trilogy: Special Editions.”
Finally in our last segment will read and answer listener emails.
Iron Man: Mark XLIII
Just in time for the release of “Avengers: Age Of Ultron” in theaters Sideshow Collectibles has officially revealed one of Hot Toy’s newest masterpeieces, “Iron Man Mark XLIII from “Avengers: Age Of Ultron.”
Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are thrilled to officially present the first 1/4th scale Iron Man collectible figure – the Mark XLIII from Avengers: Age of Ultron!
The movie-accurate quarter scale Mark XLIII Collectible Figure is remarkably detailed and sophisticatedly crafted base on the image of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Mark XLIII in Avengers: Age of Ultron. It stands 49cm (20 inches) tall and features a newly sculpted Tony Stark head, interchangeable helmeted head, specially applied metallic red, gold and silver armor, LED light-up functions in the eyes, arc reactor and repulsors. The figure includes LED lights that shine through various areas of the armor, removable armor parts, and a specially designed fallen Ultron Sentry diorama base with detachable head and arm.
The Iron Man Mark XVIII is crurrently available for preorder at a price of $544.99 and is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2016.
Source: Sideshow Collectibles
That’s it for this time!
According to BadAssDigest.com, those purchasing the digital version of “Star Wars: A New Hope” may be in for a very pleasant surprise.
From BadAssDigest:
If my sources are correct – and we’ll know in about 24 hours – Han will now shoot first in this edition of Star Wars. It’s probably one of the most egregious changes made to the Original Trilogy (and a lot of those changes were egregious) and now, almost two decades after it was included in the Special Edition, it will be gone.
The author says that a number of people have confirmed this to be true to him, but like us, he wont believe it till he sees it.
If this does come true this could be a very good sign that we will eventually see the unaltered versions of The Original “Star Wars” Trilogy. Bye bye Hayden Christensen!
We wont know for sure until midnight if this is true or not but for now we have “a new hope”…for a few hours.
Source: Bad Ass Digest
*Update – Bad Ass Digest has just updated their story and they are confirming that Han still does not shoot first, based on people who already have purchased the digital versions in Australia.
They are now reporting that there is a 4K remastered version of “A New Hope” that is in the works, or possibly completed, that shows Han shooting first in that version.
There is a 4k remaster of A New Hope. In this 4k remaster, which includes tweaks and small changes, the Han/Greedo scene is altered. The 4k remaster is not what is being used for the digital editions. The existence of the 4k remasters have been known for a while – they were reported in June of last year – but which version was being remastered wasn’t exactly clear. It seems like the 4k remaster is still being held back for… something. A rerelease timed with The Force Awakens? A 40th anniversary rerelease right before Episode VIII? A new box set tied to the release of The Force Awakens?
Only time will tell if this new story is true but I think it is a no-brainier that 4K remasters are being worked on and they will probably be released this year or early next year to coincide with the theatrical release of “The Force Awakens”. And with Disney announcing the release of the digital version of the “Star Wars Saga” just 4 days before their official release, nothing would surprise me anymore.
With Star Wars Celebration only being just a few days away, here is a first look at some exclusive T-shirts and hoodies that will be available for sale at the convention. Star Wars Celebration is the official annual Star Wars convention and will take place from April 16th – 19th at the Anaheim Convention Center.
SOURCE: StarWars.com
During Disney’s annual shareholder meeting, Bob Iger announced that Disney will absolutely prohibit the use of a character smoking in all of its films rated PG-13 and below. The only exception will be the portrayal of a historical character who smoked. This rule will apply to all Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars films.
Bob Iger:
“We are extending our policy to prohibit smoking in movies across the board. In terms of any new characters that are created for any of those films, under any of those labels, we will absolutely prohibit smoking in any of those films. Except when we are depicting a historical figure who may have smoked at the time. For instance, we’ve been doing a movie on Abraham Lincoln, he was a smoker, and we would consider that acceptable.”“I thought it was the right thing for us to do,” he said about the decision — which he says he made over the last 48 hours prior to the shareholders meeting.
