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'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the wait-you-will dept.

Mr.Intel writes with bad news for those of you champing at the bit to see the next Star Wars movie. Engadget reports: "You'll have to wait a bit longer to see what the heck is up with Luke Skywalker. Disney announced this afternoon that it's delaying Star Wars: Episode VIII from May 26, 2017 by seven months to December 15, 2017. Disney didn't give any reason for the delay, but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that it'll allow the studio to give the film a Christmas release treatment, which worked pretty well for The Force Awakens. Additionally, it'll give director/writer Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper) more time to work on the film. THR's Borys Kit notes that may include rewrites to focus more on the new class of Star Wars characters."

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  1. story development... by lkcl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "that may include rewrites to focus more on the new class of Star Wars characters"

    yeah. that'll be because they ignore george lucas, who has been working on a storyline for several decades. did anyone else notice that the film was pretty much a quotes modern reinvention quotes of the exact same story of the very first film - right down to having a tunnel that the tie-fighters went down and got shot at?

    i heard a story related to john lasseter, where the only reason that some of the older artists working on disney films stayed on was out of loyalty to walt. this despite the managers and directors at disney studios for over a decade basically viewing disney studios as a "profit generation outfit". as a result we got absolutely awful films like that one about voodoo down in new orleans, and that one about a bison in the U.S. desert, which was a truly nerve-grating scratch-your-own-eyes-out bitch-fest, with the main characters verbally back-stabbing each other pretty much the entire time [and this is supposed to be a kid's film].

    marvel comics and dc comics films are successful because there is a HUGE volume of material developed by extremely talented writers over many decades. script-writers therefore actually have *too much* originality to work from, as well as having the advantage of not really needing to do too much in the way of "back-story" - they can jump right in.

    to dick about with a 3-decade-long complex story by IGNORING THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT is just... well... disappointing.