Star Wars: Episode VII Finally Gets a Release Date
bootlegga @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:33 pm
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Putting an exact date on when all Star Wars fans must now focus their attention, Lucasfilm announced today that Episode VII will hit theaters Dec. 18, 2015.
“It will not only anchor the popular holiday film-going season but also ensure our extraordinary filmmaking team has the time needed to deliver a sensational picture,” Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a statement on StarWars.com announcing the release date.
The announcement comes just two weeks after the studio revealed that the flick’s director J.J. Abrams and Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan would be taking over writing duties on the film from Episode VII‘s original writer Michael Arndt, who wrote this month’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire screenplay adaptation.
Legendary composer John Williams will be returning to score Episode VII, and filming for the latest installment of the franchise is set to begin in the spring of 2014.
“It will not only anchor the popular holiday film-going season but also ensure our extraordinary filmmaking team has the time needed to deliver a sensational picture,” Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a statement on StarWars.com announcing the release date.
The announcement comes just two weeks after the studio revealed that the flick’s director J.J. Abrams and Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan would be taking over writing duties on the film from Episode VII‘s original writer Michael Arndt, who wrote this month’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire screenplay adaptation.
Legendary composer John Williams will be returning to score Episode VII, and filming for the latest installment of the franchise is set to begin in the spring of 2014.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/ ... -date-set/
BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:38 pm
Two years, eh? It damn well better be worth the wait. And if Jar Jar Binks shows up I want my f*cking money back.
Thanos @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:43 pm
Jar Jar Abrams is directing so you know it's gonna suck. STID was merely his disgusting foreplay up for how he's gonna bend Star Wars over a table and rape it to death. By the time it's over Lucas' Episodes 1 to 3 will look like goddamn Casablanca by comparison.
canuckns @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:56 pm
I hoping for the best. I'm praying they don't fuck this up.
commanderkai @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:56 pm
My prediction? LIGHTSABERS FOR EVERYBODY! Going for groceries? Better pack your lightsaber. Want to take a Sunday drive? Make sure you have the lightsaber package on your car!
BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 5:31 pm
commanderkai commanderkai:
My prediction? LIGHTSABERS FOR EVERYBODY! Going for groceries? Better pack your lightsaber. Want to take a Sunday drive? Make sure you have the lightsaber package on your car!
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
llama66 @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 5:40 pm
If there is any reference to Jar-Jar or if Jar-Jar makes an appearance, I cannot and will not be held responsible for my reaction. they assume volenti non fit injuria.
It better be in the vein of the Star Wars I remember... god help them if they fuck this up.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 5:41 pm
Return of the Ancient, Geriatric Jedis in Walkers
"Use the fo.."
"WHAT?"
"THE FO..."
"WHAT?!?"
"T H E F O R C E!! USE THE FORCE!!!
commanderkai @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:10 pm
The only way I'd see it in theaters is if this video was the trailer:
Needs more Sisko though.
xerxes @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:12 pm
And cue the uber-nerds lining up already....
PJB @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 7:54 pm
Lost interest after Return of the Jedi. (The original)
Thanos @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:35 pm
ROTJ wasn't even all that good when compared with SW and TESB. Lucas was in full "let's dumb this down so we can sell lots of toys" mode as far back as 1983.
Been lots of comments elsewhere that any new SW movies that aren't an adaptation of the Admiral Thrawn paperbacks from the Expanded Universe setting are a waste of time. The Empire was too huge to be beaten in one shot at Endor, and there had to be lots of competent (if not outright genius commanders like Thrawn was) that would have proven to be an absolute nightmare to the Alliance after Palpatine was killed. Just the regular Star Destroyer fleet alone, if handled properly, could have destroyed the Rebels without needing to fall back on some idiotic waste-of-resources super-weapon like the Death Stars were.
llama66 @ Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:37 pm
I want to see the Eclipse SSD. That would be AWESOME!!!!