As far as I know, I’ve always been here.

Assuming this is a trilogy, it looks like we really are going to be taking a break from the Saga films with two standalone trilogies lined up for the next few years.

I’m excited about that aspect of this news and I’m really interested to see where these trilogies will lead us. I’m hoping at least one of them is set around the OT period.

Here’s the official announcement:

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.

It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit, Emmy Award-winning television series Game of Thrones, will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films.

These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson, writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

“David and Dan are some of the best storytellers working today,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and richness of mythology will break new ground and boldly push Star Wars in ways I find incredibly exciting.”

“In the summer of 1977 we traveled to a galaxy far, far away, and we’ve been dreaming of it ever since,” Benioff and Weiss said in a joint statement. “We are honored by the opportunity, a little terrified by the responsibility, and so excited to get started as soon as the final season of Game of Thrones is complete.”

No release dates have been set for the new films, and there have (thankfully) been no sightings of White Walkers around Lucasfilm.

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darthrush said:

The new Spock doesn’t work. He’s meant to be an emotionless Vulcan but actually translates onscreen to being a constantly grumpy and irritated dude. You also have no reason to believe he would become best friends with the new Kirk who is basically boiled down to being a jock flyboy who’s main thing is just to disobey every order.

TLDR: The new Star Trek movies minus Beyond (which is delightful) are dumb action movies with poorly written characters.

I agree with all of this (Beyond is the best)

NeverarGreat said:

Leonard Nimoy maintained that while his iconic character may have been seen as cold and unemotional, he always played him as “a guy trying to keep his emotions in check.”

Yeah, Nimoy played him as a levelheaded person that every now and then would slip up. Quinto’s portrayal was that of an ever irritated grump. None of the cast of nuTrek really nailed their character except for Bones and to a lesser extent Kirk. Though Kirk suffered the most from being written as a pop culture stereotype of the character.

As for the topic at hand, I’m a big believer in being able to recast an iconic role. But whoever is cast has to be able to capture the spirit of that character. Sean Patrick Flanery was a great young Indy in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles because he understood that. The jury is still out on Ehrenreich’s Solo but so far the prognosis is not good.

Yeah, I was wondering if he’s supposed to be Bollux or maybe Vuffi Raa in name only. Probably just an original character all around though.

DominicCobb said:

Mocata said:

But trailers are designed to maximise the hype, and presumably this was the best they could do in terms of crowd pleasing sound bites even after all the delays.

Well I haven’t seen it but I’m electing to defend it regardless!

FTFY

The film looks great but he is not Solo. Looks like they should have recast and gone with Ingruber while they were switching out directors.

Strangely, Ehrenreich sounds like Ingruber when he’s not doing his Harrison voice.

emanswfan said:

The cinematography does not disappoint! Bradford Young is killer behind the camera! And it also seems to be a nice continuation of the Rogue One’s heightened realism aesthetic.

This so much! Rogue One was easily my favorite of the new films in terms of visuals. It brought the OT era to life and it looks like they’ve done it again!

That teaser was fantastic! Can’t wait for the full trailer!

I am Tobar. I seek to crush my enemies. See them driven before me. And to hear the lamentations of their women.

DominicCobb said:

No room for rebels vs Empire kind of stories. Plenty of room for whatever else. Not every story has to be a massive galactic conflict.

They can do small character stories which is a lot of what they’ve been doing but that’s not sustainable.

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I just can’t believe how badly they’ve handcuffed themselves when it comes to room for more stories.

Why in the world would you end the conflict with the Empire just a year after ROTJ? That doesn’t even sound plausible.

The only conflict they’ve made room for is the wiping out of Hutt cartels as was referenced in Bloodlines. Something else that book establishes is that the Republic has been at peace for decades. So no real room for stories.

Fast forward to TFA and it’s revealed the attack with the Starkiller is the first time the First Order has committed an act of war. So no room for stories leading up to TFA.

TLJ starts immediately after the last film, so no room for stories there again.

The only chance they’ve got is if there’s a time jump between VIII and IX.

It’s just bizarre to me how they didn’t worked this out ahead of time and have instead written themselves into a very tight corner.

Hostiles (2017)

Really good film. Solid performances all around. It’s amazing that this is only this studio’s third film. Kudos to the writer/director.

theprequelsrule said:

Tobar’s avatar is mind-blowingly awesome.

Zombiology: Enjoy Yourself Tonight (2017)

Nutty Hong Kong Action Zombie Comedy.

Is it though? Their main base of operations was just destroyed. It’s going to take a while before they can regroup.

SilverWook said:

Anyone else think we might get a Droids movie someday? There isn’t the wiggle room there once was for Threepio and Artoo to have solo adventures between the trilogies, but maybe we’ll find out what the red arm thing in TFA was about.

That story was told in comic form and Tony Daniels milks it for all its worth by padding out his panels with it. =P

‘Star Wars Rebels’ sets 90-minute series finale

“Star Wars” is officially closing one chapter in its universe, with the animated series “Star Wars Rebels” to conclude March 5 with a 90-minute series finale.

The program, which airs on Disney XD, will return February 19 with back-to-back episodes leading up to its conclusion.

The cable network also confirmed that Ian McDiarmid – who has played Emperor Palpatine in the “Star Wars” movies – will provide the character’s voice during this final flurry of episodes. (Another actor had previously voiced the character, who has been heard but not seen in the series.)

The emperor is shown fleetingly in the trailer, which was released Friday.

Despite airing on a children’s network, “Rebels,” now in its fourth season, has been an intriguing offshoot of the “Star Wars” mythology, focusing on a small band battling against the empire several years before the events depicted in the original movie, subtitled “A New Hope.”

The question of what happened to those characters – which include a Jedi named Kanan and his apprentice, Ezra – has hung over the series in terms of how dark the ending might be.

In October, series producer Dave Filoni told CNN that charting a finish to the series represented “quite a puzzle,” saying, “The ending works as it’s meant to. One of George’s main things about ‘Star Wars’ is it is a story about hope. … I tried to stick to those themes.”

Lucasfilm parent Disney has ramped up its production of live-action “Star Wars” prequels, but Filoni said that there’s still a wide array of possibilities for animated storytelling as well.

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I’ll take a Rodian in any of these new movies anyway I can!

DominicCobb said:

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LuckyGungan2001 said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years vol. 2
What a wonderful era of Star Wars this was. Back when there was only the original film and writers and artists were free to run around the galaxy however they pleased.

Eh, I dunno. I tried reading those comics a while back and they were just really lame. I reckon the Dark Horse comics absolutely blew these old Marvel comics out of the water, and the new line of Marvel comics are also way better. Those old comics don’t feel like Star Wars and just aren’t my thing.

This.

That.

Yeah, I’m really hoping Dave has something up his sleeve that we’ll be hearing about soon.

Cloak & Dagger said:

Here’s a special look into the first episode. Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger premieres Thursday, June 7 on @FreeformTV.

Rian just posted this series of images on twitter a few hours ago.

I’m betting Pablo or someone in the story group handed him those books when he was writing the script. The handling of the Force in the film always sounded very accurate and informed from an EU perspective to me. Though I never got around to reading those specific books(THE SACRED TEXTS).