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'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com)
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."
Star Wars is an awful franchise. Star Trek is far superior -- better characters, better plots, more imaginative, better writing, etc... Star Wars should cease.
to figure out how to bring Hans Solo back to life...
Because you sell more toys and other merchandise at Christmas time
That's about when those new parks open.
I thought it was clear now, Luke Skywalker went back to his desert home world so he could have anal sex with the sand people.
Sand People: NNNNGGG!!!! NGGGG NGGG NGGGGG!
I am altering the release date.
Pray I do not alter it any further.
I think the box office returns have made their statement, but thanks for your opinion, which, of course, means absolutely nothing.
I liked the new Star Wars film. My family enjoyed it very much.
I look forward to many more movies to come.
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Episode VII was a steaming pile of dog s***, I imagine the next will be even worse. Long live Disney princesses. :P
Oh wait, no, Disney owns both titles.
Browncoats yay!
Having watched all 7 movies this week, I've decided that the franchise really died after ESB.
RoTJ was mostly crap (Jabba's palace an Ewoks were equally as bad as Jar Jar), and the prequels need no further explanation.
Ep7 was so pathetic it's not funny. Lame characters, unoriginal script and plot, and massive holes in the story. I'll watch Ep8 when it comes out, but only because I found a new way to enjoy them, picking the shit out of their weak production.
"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.
for the marketing people to develop all those new toys and make a the licensing deals with hamburger chains.
Apparently, Disney is asking for 40% more shocking plotholes. Also, the film in its present form contains several original ideas, and it takes time to meticulously edit these out.
Bring George Lucas in, let him come up with another funny "Jar Jar" character to make the movie even better!
Do you have ESP?
To allow more time for additional crybaby bitch whining from George Lucas.
Divine justice would be for fans seeing how shitty the Disney ownership of Star Wars really is to clamor the return of Uncle George at the helm. And Lucas should give the finger to the so-called fans.
with all the money they made from the first movie, they can afford an original script.
Seriously, episode 7 was the most disappointing SW ever. I would rather cherish the memory of episode 1-6 rather than watch yet another one and ruin my memory. I have decided no more to watch new episodes of series which are otherwise logically completed (Wont' watch next Harry Potter if it ever comes out).
I still haven't seen Episode VII. Maybe I'll catch it when it hits the bargain theaters.
So.. this one will be a re-envisioned remake of The Empire Strikes Back instead of A New Hope Version 2?
Star Wars is a child's movie for small minds who can't grasp concepts beyond bad and good, black and white.
to decline fomr
Good Lord; basic editing is even done on the most garden-variety hobbyist sites nowadays. Rudimentary technology knowledge and good English skills aren't mutually exclusive.
It's obvious where that dark side feeling comes from; Di$ney (c)orporation. I should have expected to find them holding the fans' leash. I recognized their foul stench as soon as I read the headline.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
maybe it will give them time to actually come up with a story this time rather than just rehashing the original movies.
Now I like both (some of) Star Trek and (some of) Star Wars. Some things to keep in mind are that :
* Trek was *many* series with some movies. SW was movies with a cartoon series, both had books
* Trek had some abysmal episodes, but there's a lot more to pick from when digging for gold
* Meesa Jar-Jar Bin... SHUT UP WESLEY!
* Both had some exceptional actors. I don't think many can say Patrick Stuart is pretty awesome, and Ford rocks
Most comparisons are likely going to be between STTOS and SW. I think overall Trek had more (quantity wise) memorable characters, but again it was a SERIES so there was more time for development. In the end though, some scenarios come to mind:
William Shatner gets VD and misses the audition, so another actor takes Kirk. Would it be better or worse?
Harrison Ford breaks his leg while saving a kitten from a tree, missing his audition. Better or worse?
In the above, I'd say Trek might do better or the same, but SW would be worse off. To me that means SW's main actor was better, but also that a lot of what made it good was due to Ford.
Now last scenario to drive it home:
Shatner gets kicked off set when he's caught banging the director' s assistant. Instead, they cast as Kirk... Harrison Ford.
Which one is the winner now? â
> who doesn't want to make human torches!
Er, Disney. Haven't you been paying attention? (See: Disney's Marvel, and its refusal to produce Fantastic Four merchandise until it gets the rights back from Fox)
I was a fan of the original Star Wars, they are tremendously well done space opera movies, but their time has passed. Lightsabers, the Millenium Falcon, the stupid Storm Troopers, the death star/planet, the masked bad guy, etc all seen before. The latest movie, although suberbly executed, was not fresh at all. It was a rehash of all the things we have seen in the past.
I hope they take those 7 months and update the Star Wars Universe, at last.
The force is a religion to them and they've all been born again.
Going totally against his entire character of the prior films? The Luke I know wouldn't turn tail and run and hide, so there better be a damn good explanation.
Hopefully it will give them time to make a good movie unlike that poorly directed poorly paced clusterfuck of a movie that spent all of the character development time ignoring the two new and interesting actors in favor of more overly long actions scenes and cameos with characters whose actors stopped giving a shit in 1980.
"There are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics"
Somebody's pregnant.
I predict it's Andy Serkis.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joe
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
Don't care about Star Wars any longer. J.J. Can take Star Wars and cram it. He ruined it. But seems the general populace couldn't care less. So I guess we are stuck with more crap like this last one.
Which is just another Star Wars episode anyway thanks to JJ.
of any value at all was lost!
Some people do.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."