Post by TheWrestleGeek on Apr 17, 2015 19:00:41 GMT -5
With all the excitement going around about the new Episode VII Trailer, it was announced that Rogue One will be released on December 16, 2016. So If everything works out (money wise), we are expected to see one new live-action Star Wars film per year for the next 5 years. Ep. VII (2015), Rogue One (2016), Ep. VIII (2017), Unannounced Title (2018), and Ep. IX (2019). Rogue One will be the first stand-alone Star Wars film, it is expected to be based on a new female character in which we have not met in previous films. Felicity Jones has been casted as one of the main characters.
What do you all think about this? Is Disney going a little over the edge w/ these new rights? Should they make stand-alone films or not?
UPDATE 4/19/15:
Today at the final day of Star Wars Celebration, Star Wars: Rogue One director Gareth Edwards took the stage for a panel called “Conversations with Gareth Edwards and Josh Trank.” They showed a very brief teaser and provided some details on Rogue One. The teaser trailer shown was simple. A card with “December 2016″ fades in and out, with a sound that is somewhere between a slow Inception horn and a lightsaber. Then a familiar voice: Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, saying “For more than a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire.” As he speaks, the teaser fades in on a tracking shot, high up through a forested canyon. We hear a TIE Fighter pass overhead, and see the ship move forward into frame as the camera continues to push forward. We see, dominating the sky, the outline of what could be a moon. But that’s no moon, it’s a… well, you know what it is. The Death Star. Music swells and the screen goes black. The Rogue One logo comes up, and we hear radio voices, like troops communicating during combat. The chatter gets more frantic and loud as light strobes on the logo, which finally breaks up as the sound cuts out. Gareth Edwards says that Felicity Jones plays a rebel soldier. “We wanted to see fear, humor, and warmth” in the character, he said, not just a cliched image of a warrior. More important, this is definitely a war movie. “It’s called Star Wars,” emphasized the director. This film is about moral grey areas and realities of war, and is set in between Episode III and IV — and closer to IV, aka the original Star Wars. Greig Fraser, who shot Zero Dark Thirty, is the cinematographer. Rogue One is set in a time when the Jedi are basically extinct — there are no warriors with “magical powers” to save the day. “It’s about the fact that God’s not coming to save us,” said Edwards. “The absence of the Jedi hangs over the movie.” So this could be a very different Star Wars movie, one that features more “reality” than we’ve ever seen, and potentially some slightly morally murky characters, from a moral perspective. And it has a female lead — color us very. But Neal Scanlan is on for creature design and effects, so don’t think this won’t look like a Star Wars movie. I think we can assume that, despite some leanings towards more adult concepts than we’ve seen in Star Wars, this film will still essentially fit into the overall feel of the series. Edwards also mentioned that there are “opportunities” in the fact that this film is set in the same time period as Star Wars Rebels — what that means is something we’ll have to wait to see. This film was pitched by John Knoll of ILM, who first talked about the standalone film idea to co-workers at ILM and LucasFilm. They loved it, and suggested he pitch it for real. and they all told him he should pitch it to the company. He did, and when Kathleen Kennedy came on board as head of Lucasfilm, this became one of her very first priorities.
