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May The Force Be With You

Lucasfilm Animation Will “Wind Down” Star Wars: The Clone Wars; Episode VII Being Made Every Day

by Susana Polo | 1:59 pm, March 11th, 2013

The acquisition of LucasFilm by Disney spelled out pretty clearly the fate of licensed Star Wars stories on television and in comics. Disney has its own television distribution method and with its ownership of Marvel Comics its also got its own established sequential art production house. And while it took a while before we heard for certain that Dark Horse would be losing its Star Wars licenses, the announcement came swiftly in the case of Cartoon Network’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars, confirming that the current and fifth season would be its last to air under the CN banner.

But the full fate of the show, and Lucasfilm’s animation division got an update today that’s equal parts “status quo” and interesting details.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: This Minas Tirith Would Be Incredibly Easy for an Oliphaunt to Knock Over

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:30 pm, March 10th, 2013

Minas Tirith sandcastle by DeviantArtist BuckarooJoe, via Geekologie.

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Carrie Fisher Was Joking About the Star Wars Sequels, But George Lucas Says She’ll Probably Be In Them Anyway

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:01 am, March 7th, 2013

… as will Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford. According to George Lucas, that is.

(Oh, and can I just take a quick moment to say that we called it on Carrie Fisher joking about her Star Wars confirmation? Because we did.)

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Carrie Fisher Said She’ll Be in the Star Wars Sequels, But Let’s Not Freak Out Quite Yet

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:01 am, March 6th, 2013

OK, so, getting the important stuff covered first: Carrie Fisher was asked by the Palm Beach Illustrated whether she’d be in the Star Wars sequels, and she said, and I quote, “Yes.”

But here’s why we should wait before breaking out the cinnamon buns in celebration:

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Here’s What Mark Hamill Knows About Those Star Wars Sequel Casting Rumors

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:00 pm, February 20th, 2013

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the possibility of some combination of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill showing up in the Star Wars sequels. And we’re taking those rumors with a massive boulder of salt, since there’s been nothing close to an official announcement that any of the Original Trilogy Three will be coming back. There still isn’t. But Mark Hamill said a few things to Entertainment Tonight about the possibility of Luke, Leia, and Han showing up in the sequels that made my ears perk up.

Darnit, Mark. I’m trying to keep a cool head here.

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DO WANT

John Williams Is Ready to Listen If You Want to Call Him Up About the Star Wars Sequels, Disney. Any Time Now.

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:45 am, February 18th, 2013

And Disney/Lucasfilm will ask him to score the upcoming movies, right? I mean. They can’t do new Star Wars movies without John Williams. ‘Twould be blasphemy.

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Lawrence Kasdan Wants to “Start Fresh” For His Star Wars Spinoff, Won’t Pull from the Expanded Universe

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:45 pm, February 11th, 2013

The Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan is one of the writers assigned to those recently confirmed Star Wars spinoffs. We don’t yet know who Kasdan’s movie will be about—Boba Fett, Han Solo, and Yoda have all been rumored, though it could be someone else—but whoever it is, he’s kissing anything from their Expanded Universe storyline goodbye.

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Disney Confirms Standalone Star Wars Films; How Long Before They Get to Boba Fett: The Movie? [UPDATE: Not Long]

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:00 am, February 6th, 2013

You know they will.

A few months back we heard the rumor that The Empire Strikes Back writer Lawrence Kasdan and X-Men: First Class‘ Simon Kinberg would be writing standalone films separate from the Star Wars sequel trilogy. And now Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed it.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as Vampire Lovers

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, January 30th, 2013

Here’s the first pic from Jim Jarmusch‘s Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as, you guessed it, vampire lovers. Named Adam and Eve, incidentally. No release date for this one yet, sorry folks. (/Film)

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I will make it legal!

Here’s How Kathleen Kennedy, Producer and Studio Exec Extraordinaire, Convinced J.J. Abrams to do Star Wars

by Rebecca Pahle | 12:34 pm, January 30th, 2013

The Hollywood Reporter has an in-depth of profile of LucasFilm President Kathleen Kennedy, and while the whole thing is worth a read—Kennedy “know[s] the difference between a Colt .45 and a Colt .45 Gold Cup” and started dating her future husband, Raiders of the Lost Ark producer Frank Marshall, behind the back of Kennedy’s long-time collaborator Steven Spielberg (“I wanted Kathy to be working with me as my assistant and Frank to be producing the movie, and never the twain shall meet,” recalled Spielberg, “But you can’t stop love.”)—what caught my attention as an inveterate Star Wars nerd was something different.

Namely, the story of the secret meetings where Kennedy got J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars: Episode VII.

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