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The last Star Wars trilogy to his theaters left much to be desired as many felt the story was ok and the villain, Kylo Ren was underwhelming, but with the success of it’s Disney+ spinoff series it seems like Lucasfilms is going to be putting together another cinematic three-piece of the Star Wars saga.
According to Variety, a new Star Wars trilogy is currently in development and X-Men writer/producer, Simon Kinberg has been tapped to pen the upcoming project that for now will bring back the franchises new stars, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver. Truth be told, we could care less if Adam Driver returns (no shots). We’d rather Mark Hamill. Just sayin.’
Though we don’t know anything about what direction Kinberg will be going with the new Star Wars trilogy, best believe he’s got a lot of pressure to knock this one out the park as the fanbase has become rabid over recent decades about their beloved franchise. Luckily for him, he’s got a few good films under his belt, so there’s a good chance he’ll get things right… or as right as it can be.
Per Variety:
Kinberg is best known for writing and producing a number of “X-Men” films for 20th Century Fox, including 2006’s “The Last Stand,” 2011’s “First Class,” 2014’s “Days of Future Past,” 2016’s “Deadpool” and 2017’s “Logan,” before making his directorial debut with 2019’s spinoff “Dark Phoenix.” He’s worked with Lucasfilm on the Disney Channel animated series “Star Wars: Rebels,” which he co-created with Dave Filoni and Carrie Beck, and he consulted with director J.J. Abrams on 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
Sources stress that Kinberg’s trilogy remains in early development, and it’s unclear when it’ll go into production. The filmmaker is serving as a producer on Paramount and Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man” remake, which recently went into production with Glen Powell and Josh Brolin. He’s also attached as a producer on Paramount’s next “Star Trek” movie from director Toby Haynes.
May the force be with you young Kinberg because if you mess this up, man listen…
What do y’all think about a new Star Wars trilogy? Do y’all want to once again indulge in the adventures of a galaxy far, far away or should they just leave well enough alone? Sound off in the comments section below.
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Attention Star Wars fans: Lego has a new Star Wars set available that would make just about any sci-fi fan, movie enthusiast or Lego lover very happy.
Released exclusively at Lego.com, the Star Wars: Jabba’s Sail Barge (item No. 75397) is a replica of the desert-soaring sail barge from Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. It’s priced at $499.99 and drops Sunday, Oct. 6.
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However, if you’re a Lego Insider, then you can have early access to this set starting Thursday, Oct. 3, before it officially drops. Lego Insider is the toy company’s rewards program with perks such as early access to buy exclusive sets, special discounts, digital downloads and more. And best of all? It’s free to join.
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The Star Wars: Jabba’s Sail Barge set is a massive set at 10 inches tall, 30.5 inches wide and 9.5 inches deep. It comes with 3,942 Lego pieces that make up Jabba’s sail barge in Tatooine from the very popular film series.
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Additionally, it features 11 Lego Minifigures, including Princess Leia, C-3PO, Max Rebo, Wooof, Gamorrean Guard, Jabba the Hutt, Salacious Crumb, R2-D2 with bar table accessory and other characters.
Meanwhile, there are a few Lego sets we can recommend for the holidays, including the Fender Stratocaster Guitar set, the Legend of Zelda set, Wicked Emerald City set or Dungeons & Dragons Minifigures set. All three would make for great gifts.
Available on Sunday, Oct. 6, the Star Wars: Jabba’s Sail Barge set — which is made for builders ages 18 and up — goes for $499.99 at Lego.com.
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It’s time to return to a galaxy far, far away with a new Star Wars video game from Lucasfilm Games and Ubisoft.
Star Wars Outlaws is available for pre-order starting at $69.99 at ubisoft.com. The game is cross-platform for Xbox Series X/S, Sony PlayStation 5, Amazon Luna and PC. Ut’s expected to drop on Friday, Aug. 30.
And if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can access the game via Amazon Luna — the retail giant’s cloud gaming service — with a subscription to the Ubisoft+ add-on, which goes for $17.99 per month and comes with access to more than 100 games, including Star Wars Outlaws, Far Cry 6, Watch Dogs Legion, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Assassin’s Creed Mirage and others.
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Release date: Aug. 30
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Meanwhile, there are a few gaming tiers that are ready for pre-order. The standard tier for $69.99 comes with the game itself and two pre-order cosmetic packs, while the gold edition goes for $109.99 and comes with everything in the standard tier, as well as early access and the game’s season pass, which comes with two DLC (downloadable content) packs.
In addition, the ultimate edition for $129.99 comes with everything in the gold edition, plus two spaceship packs and a digital art book of the game’s concept art and storyboards. Lastly, there’s the ultimate edition with Ubisoft+ subscription service for $17.99 per month.
Star Wars Outlaws is set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in the Star Wars timeline. It follows Kay Vess, a “cunning scoundrel” and her furry companion Nix, as the pair go on a life-changing quest in the criminal underbelly of the evil empire. However, she attracts the attention of the wrong people in pursuit of a new life.
Available for pre-order starting at $69.99 at Ubisoft, Star Wars Outlaws comes out for Xbox, PS5, Amazon Luna and PC on Aug. 30. In the meantime, watch the story trailer for the game, below:
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While Star Wars fans have many issues with both the prequel and sequel trilogies that followed the first three classics that George Lucas blessed us with, the spinoff shows that stream on Disney+ have garnered much love and support. Now another series will be coming that will delve even deeper into the Star Wars universe.
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On Tuesday (March 20), Disney+ released their first trailer for a new Star Wars spinoff series dubbed The Acolyte which centers around a Jedi killer and actually takes place 100 years before the Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace. Judging from the trailer, the Jedi will have their hands full as they try to take down the young, Force-wielding Sith in training, portrayed by Amanda Stenberg
In the trailer we see this assassin wield a red lightsaber so you just know chaos is about to go down. We’re with it. Also in the cast are Carrie-Ann Moss and Jodie Turner-Smith, as if we didn’t need more reason to tune in.
With the series taking place 100 years before the prequel films, we doubt we’ll see anyone from the OG Star Wars film make an appearance (Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, etc), but Chewbacca and other role players are definitely on the table and maybe even a legendary Sith or two might make a cameo or play a role in the show after it’s all said and done.
Check out the trailer for The Acolyte below and let us know if you’ll be checking for it when it premiers on Disney+ on June 4th. Peep photos in the gallery, too.
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This isn’t shocking news, but it’s very much welcomed. Tuesday, Lucasfilm announced that Din Djarin and his lovable sidekick, Grogu, aka Baby Yoda’s adventure, will also reach the big screen.
This is the way.
The Mandalorian and his trusty sidekick lived on Disney+ for three seasons, with rumblings of the duo possibly teaming up for the feature-length film.
Finally, Lucasfilm has made the dreams of fans of The Mandalorian come true by announcing that a film based on Star Wars favorite duo is happening with Jon Favreau directing and producing alongside Kathleen Kennedy and the current architect of the Star Wars universe, Dave Filoni.
The film’s name will be The Mandalorian & Grogu, but it’s always subject to change. Production of the movie will begin later this year.
The Star Wars film franchise has been in limbo following 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, closing the chapter of The Skywalker saga and leaving fans arguing about how good the last three films were.
A Rogue Squadron movie from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was originally on the slate before Disney removed it from the slate. It looks like the House of the Mouse is relying on one of its most popular franchises to reinvigorate the Star Wars film machine.
Lucasfilm wasn’t done with the announcements. Fans of the most recent Star Wars Disney+ series, Ahsoka, starring Rosario Dawson, will be happy to learn the show will be getting a second season.
The production company announced that the show’s next season is in development, and Dave Filoni will oversee the project.
It looks like the future is bright for Star Wars fans.
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It’s been almost a decade since the Star Wars franchise was reintroduced in its last trilogy The Force Awakens. While fans had many bones to pick with each film, most of them pretty much agreed that Adam Driver taking on the mantle of main villain was a mistake, respectfully.
As it turns out, it seems like the man himself didn’t enjoy filming the projects much, which is probably why he looked annoyed during most of the films. According to Variety, Driver recently appeared on the SmartLess podcast and spoke about his time while filming the Star Wars trilogy. He admitted that it was an “exhausting” experience and that he wouldn’t be interested in reprising his role as Kylo Ren in any future projects.
With Disney+ churning out Star Wars spinoff series—which feature cameos from some Star Wars OGs— and rumors about a new Star Wars film trilogy in the works, Driver bluntly stated: “I’m not doing any more” filming related to anything going on in a galaxy far, far away.
Variety reports:
“You’re done because the character’s done?” podcast co-host Sean Haynes asked as a follow-up question, to which Driver responded: “Yes.”
“‘Star Wars’ was way more exhausting for me … I made it more exhausting than it should have been,” Driver added. “I hadn’t quite figured out the momentum of a set that was that big before. All the things I had worked on were pretty small and moved pretty fast … The director sets the pace of the set. I don’t like to control that. I have to adjust. Spike Lee and [Steven] Soderbergh shoot really fast. For me that’s not comfortable, but it’s there movie and their film so I adjust.”
Can’t say we’re heartbroken over the news. No shots.
Continuing to talk about how his character arc changed over the course of the trilogy, Driver says that Kylo was supposed to get more evil and darker with each passing film as opposed to becoming a conflicted anti-hero who didn’t know if he was coming or going.
From Variety:
“I had an overall arc in mind that [J.J. Abrams] wanted to do,” Driver said.
“His idea was that [Kylo’s] journey was the opposite journey of Vader, where Vader starts the most confident and the most committed to the dark side. And then by the last movie, he’s the most vulnerable and weak. He wanted to start with the opposite. This character was the most confused and vulnerable, and by the end of the three movies, he would be the most committed to the dark side. I tried to keep that arc in mind, regardless if that wound up not being the journey anyway, because it changed while shooting. But I was still focused on that.”
A lot of fans always felt that Kylo Ren shouldn’t have taken off his mask so soon and rode that look out Darth Vader style until the very last film. But alas, he revealed himself and his origin quick-fast in the first film, and it was all downhill from there.
Now that Daisy Ridley’s follow-up movie to The Rise of Skywalker is in the works, we doubt the production team will be contacting Driver for some kind of ghost cameo. Especially because he seems to have no interest in returning to the franchise whatsoever.
Truth be told, we doubt fans even want to see him again. Just sayin’.
What do y’all think about Adam Driver not wanting to return to the Star Wars franchise? Will y’all miss him or nah? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Donald Glover will be reprising his role as a young Lando Calrissian again, but it won’t be as a Disney+ series.
Lando Calrissian will be back, and his first adventure will be on the big screen. Originally supposed to be a series on Disney+, Donald Glover’s Lando will be getting his own standalone Star Wars film, the actor’s young brother and longtime collaborator, Stephen revealed.
Per Vulture:
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Donald Glover is taking Star Wars back to its home galaxy — the cinema. In an episode of the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, his younger brother, Stephen, spilled some tea about their joint Star Wars project, a spinoff following Lando Calrissian. The character was most recently embodied by Donald Glover in Solo, Disney, and Lucasfilms’ expensive box-office flop, taking the mantle from the original actor, Billy Dee Williams.
The Glovers took over the project originally directed by Dear White People writer-director Justin Simien. “It’s not even a show … the idea right now is to do a movie,” Glover told Torre during the podcast episode.
“Right now, because of the strike, it’s kind of like telephone, all of the information,” he continued. Initially, this news felt like a slip of the tongue, but per Variety’s reporting, Lucasfilm did confirm Stephen was telling the truth.
Well, yes to more Lando, and yes to it being in theaters. We hope it’s a much better movie than Solo: A Star Wars Story because that flick was very mid.
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