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FILMS // NOVEMBER 9, 2017

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RIAN JOHNSON, WRITER-DIRECTOR OF STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, TO CREATE ALL-NEW STAR WARS TRILOGY


For director Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi was just the beginning of his journey in a galaxy far, far away.

 

Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Johnson will create a brand-new Star Wars trilogy, the first of which he is also set to write and direct, with longtime collaborator Ram Bergman onboard to produce. 

 

As writer-director of The Last Jedi, Johnson conceived and realized a powerful film of which Lucasfilm and Disney are immensely proud. In shepherding this new trilogy, which is separate from the episodic Skywalker saga, Johnson will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored.

 

“We all loved working with Rian on The Last Jedi,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “He’s a creative force, and watching him craft The Last Jedi from start to finish was one of the great joys of my career. Rian will do amazing things with the blank canvas of this new trilogy.”

 

“We had the time of our lives collaborating with Lucasfilm and Disney on The Last Jedi,” Johnson and Bergman said in a joint statement. “Star Wars is the greatest modern mythology and we feel very lucky to have contributed to it. We can’t wait to continue with this new series of films.” 

 

Johnson’s upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi arrives in U.S. theaters on Dec. 15, 2017.

 

No release dates have been set for the new films, and no porgs were available for comment.

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Disney to Launch Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ TV Series on New Streaming Service
BY HALEIGH FOUTCH      NOVEMBER 9, 2017
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Disney is planning to launch an in-house streaming service by the end of 2019, and while we knew it was going to come with a catalogue of their film titles (sorry, Netflix), the studio isn’t just content to stream their most famous titles, they’re creating some buzzy new series to go with them.

 

During the company’s quarterly earnings call, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger announced that they’re developing a number of TV series to air on the streaming service, based on some major IP. The big mic drop? A live-action Star Wars series; something that has been in demand and in the works for decades but never quite came together before. Of course, Star Wars has a thriving foothold in animated serialized storytelling with Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but the live-action market has yet to be tapped all these years later. Until now.


No details are available on the series at this point, whether it will tie in with the Skywalker saga (which seems unlikely), or venture out to new corners of the galaxy. With the standalone Star Wars Stories exploring Skywalker-adjacent narratives like Rogue One and Solo, the serialized TV landscape seems like the perfect venue to take the franchise in bolder, unique directions. Serialized storytelling has become home to some of the most interesting ideas in cinema over the last decade and I’d love to see something fearless, like Legion for the Star Wars universe. Of course, Lucasfilm is pretty darn particular about that Star Wars brand, so that might not be in the cards. All we know for now is that a live-action TV series is finally in development.

 

Iger also announced that Disney is working on TV adaptations of Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and Disney Channel’s High School Musical, as well as an original series from Marvel. With Marvel airing accross networks and mediums right now on FOX (The Gifted), FX (Legion), ABC (Agents of SHIELD), Hulu (Runaways), and Netflix (The Defenders-verse), I’ll be interested to see how Disney approaches the material and what heroes they bring to the screen. Iger also mentioned the studio is considering licensing programming from third parties and that ABC Studios could end up producing for the new service. Pricing hasn’t been decided yet, but Iger noted they intended to make it less than Netflix, which currently charges $10.99 a month for their two-device streaming plan.

 

In other Star Wars news, Disney also announced a new trilogy of films created by The Last Jedi helmer Rian Johnson. You can get the full details on that here.

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