rocknroll41

Tom Cruise visited the set of Starfighter and claims he helped direct a lightsaber duel scene, so that’s more evidence that Jedi/Rey are involved in that movie.

Also Jeff Sneider says that Disney is thinking of fast-tracking the next trilogy (written by Simon Kinberg) after Starfighter, so Sharmeen’s movie is basically dead.

This will be a day long remembered!

JadedSkywalker said:

A lighthearted adventure movie is what Mando and Grogu is. A kids movie. Or at least the trailer said so, but trailers can also be lies like Rogue One.

I was hoping for Rogue Squadron. Though to be honest I was split on whether Patty Jenkins could pull it off. I thought Kathryn Bigelow might have been a better choice.

Yeah one of the things that worries me about Starfighter is that all the current rumors seem to suggest that it’s basically just Mando Season 2 again, and we already have enough repetition in starwars as is!

JadedSkywalker said:

Daisy was cast in The Good Samaritan. I doubt The Rey movie is happening anytime soon. She has multiple projects lined up and booked and none of them is Star Wars.

There is no Rey movie for 2027, or 2028. And I’m not holding my breath for one coming before the decade is out by 2030.

Yeah it’s pretty clear that starfighter will now set the course for post-TRoS stuff.

The close-up on the fang there really shows just how much more detailed this new version is. Very exciting stuff!

Mocata said:

I honestly can’t remember what his movie is now, and really it doesn’t matter unless pics of a stage or location being built arrive.

Dave’s film is supposed to tie up all the mandoverse loose ends.

ImperialFighter said:

File this under ‘Rumour’ for now

The Darkhorizons site is mooting that the discarded ‘Rogue Squadron’ movie project is possibly being reworked as a TV show now -

https://www.darkhorizons.com/rogue-squadron-to-become-a-tv-series/

Kathy Kennedy herself said in 2023 that this was a possibility.

Had the Ben Solo movie gotten made, I have a feeling it woulda lifted elements from the scrapped Duel of the Fates script (mainly Mortis). On the other hand, maybe it woulda been cool to see Ben have to explore the criminal underworld, and get a taste of his dad’s life.

LFL posted this today (“coincidence”): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLJ43vqFxk

Adam Driver confirmed in an interview today that in 2021 he tried convincing Disney to make a movie about Kylo coming back to life called The Hunt for Ben Solo, but they said no.

Mocata said:

Oh yeah that’s definitely for a callback when Ahsoka shows up.

Ahsoka is still lost in another galaxy and season 2 of her show doesn’t come out until after this movie. I doubt she’s in this.

Never knew about any of this. Very cool stuff!

Hardened1337 said:

The Shawn Levy directed film has begun production in the U.K.

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-starfighter-cast

Amy Adams is an interesting addition.

I finally got around to binging season 2 and absolutely loved it! This show is one of my favorite things ever now.

Fang Zei said:

rocknroll41 said:

Not sure if this has been discussed here yet but:

New rumor going around is that the theatrical re-release of Star Wars A New Hope planned for 2027 will be the original, unaltered version… but they might use AI to upscale it to 8k/ 120 frames per sec.

You joke (I think?) but Cameron literally used that TrueCut technology to “motion grade” certain scenes in Titanic and Avatar for 48 frames per second.

Wasn’t joking: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rjebUZNRHs&pp=ugUEEgJlbtIHCQmtCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

Not sure if this has been discussed here yet but:

New rumor going around is that the theatrical re-release of Star Wars A New Hope planned for 2027 will be the original, unaltered version… but they might use AI to upscale it to 8k/ 120 frames per sec.

Jeff Sneider (sometimes right and sometimes wrong) says that Smith is actually playing an imperial commander this time around.

Matt Smith is confirmed to be playing the big bad in Starfighter (the post-episode 9 movie). He’s probably playing the “Sith King” character that Palpatine was originally gonna transform into in episode 9. It was described as all the Sith morphed together or something. So, in a sense: somehow Palpatine returns (again).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFU8U4UVUBs&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB

JadedSkywalker said:

Well so far he hasn’t done anything for Star Wars or Star Trek for that matter. He was a producer on the Fox X-men series and did two lousy attempts on adapting the Dark Phoenix Saga the second of which he directed, and which closed out the Fox X-men franchise on a whimper.

I guess his name is in the credits of Logan and Deadpool and Wolverine and Lucasfilm wants that kind of cachet. I mean look they desperately want Sean Levy to make a Star Wars movie as well.

Hasn’t done anything for Star Wars? You do realize he was involved in the early story stages of TFA and R1, right? He even got a thank-you credit in both movies. He also basically co-created Rebels, alongside Filoni.

Kennedy just confirmed that Shawn Levy’s movie (the one Ryan Gosling is starring in) takes place “five or six years” after TRoS and that some st characters could be in it. So I guess the rumors of it being an “old lady Rey” movie were false.

So now, we have this:

Shawn Levy’s movie (5-6 years after TRoS)

Sharmeen Chinoy’s movie (15 years after TRoS)

Simon Kinberg’s trilogy (some undisclosed time after TRoS)

Kathy Kennedy confirmed she’s retiring at the end of this year.

James Gunn says swamp thing isn’t happening anytime soon, so maybe this movie really will happen first.

dj720 said:

IMO Interstellar proved he’s capable of adapting to film what would usually work best if it stuck to the written word. Considering that, I believe this adaption will be amazing. I have high hopes.

The emotional undercurrent in Tenet was non-existent, and a bit inaccessible on repeat watches of Oppenheimer. I hope that isn’t the case here, but he’ll likely stick to his usual style. Bracing myself to be disappointed again in this regard.

Have they confirmed who’d be directing the photography?

This person: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyte_van_Hoytema

First look at Damon as Odysseus:

https://vxtwitter.com/odysseymovie/status/1891519115262669304

Nolan also built a life-sized Trojan horse.

I wonder if they’ll use British accents.