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The Star Wars: Episode VII Team Would Like An Extension On Their Homework, Please. To 2016.

May The Force Be With You

Just last week we had word Star Wars: Episode VII was switching writers. As you can imagine, that didn’t instill many of us with hopeful thoughts about the next installment of the franchise, due in theaters 2015. As it turns out, the folks working on the film seem to be a little concerned as well. So much so they asked for the film to be pushed back a year. But Disney’s CEO said no. 

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The Hollywood Reporter writes, “According to those close to the project, producer Kathleen Kennedy and most of the film’s creative team have asked Disney to push the release to 2016, but studio CEO Robert Iger is adamant that Episode VII — perhaps the franchise’s most anticipated installment since 1999’s The Phantom Menace — not budge.”

What bothers me is, if the people you’ve hired to put together this huge production are expressing their concern, it’s probably for good reason, and they should be listened to. They want to put out the best product possible and want the time to do that so why not push back until 2016?

“Although the 2015 schedule already is full of tentpoles including Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, Warner Bros.’ Superman-Batman mashup and Lionsgate’s final Hunger Games, Iger has crafted a Star Wars game plan that hinges on Episode VII hitting the big screen that summer,” writes THR.

This includes the three main films as well as at least two spin-offs. With J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan are taking over the script from Michael Arndt, the report says there’s basically zero margin for error to get the film out for its intended release date. May the Force be with you all…

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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