Star Wars: Episode VIII
The middle of the new trilogy focusing on a middle-age Luke Skywalker.Stage: Development
View ArticleNext Three 'Star Wars' Films Get Treatment By 'Hunger Games' Sequel Scribe
Michael Arndt has written a treatment for not just one but also the next three Star Wars films coming from Disney, Deadline has learned. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Toy Story 3 screenwriter is...
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Michael Arndt Already Wrote Treatments for 'Star Wars: Episode VII-IX'; Will...
Star Wars: Episode VII has found its writer, it seems. Sources told Vulture that Toy Story 3's Michael Arndt has written a 40-to-50 page treatment for the seventh Star Wars movie and will most likely...
View ArticleSpielberg, Tarantino Turn Down "Star Wars"
You may want one of your favorite big-time directors taking the helm of the much anticipated "Star Wars: Episode VII", but right now it looks like none of them are stepping up to the plate. Steven...
View ArticleSources: Lawrence Kasdan, Simon Kinberg Lock Deals to Write and Produce 'Star...
The pair will write either Episode VIII or Episode IX — their exact division of responsibilities is yet to be determined — and they will also come aboard to produce the films.
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What's Popping: 'Star Wars', 'Machete Kills', 'Amazing Spider-Man 2',...
Hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving. Let's start this column off with some Star Wars news. With writers set for the next threeStar Wars episodes, the focus now is on the director(s). Colin...
View ArticleStar Wars: How Writers Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg Will Expand the Galaxy
Sources tell THR that each will write separate projects, not necessarily "Episode 8" and "Episode 9" -- a plan similar to Marvel's movies around "The Avengers."
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Disney's 'Star Wars' Movies Could Take a Marvel-ous Approach
Why settle for just one franchise when you can use a core cast of characters to spin interrelated movies off into infinity?read more
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Exclusive 'Star Wars Insider' Excerpt: George Lucas Looks Toward The Future
"Star Wars" lives on, like it or not! Three new movies (at least) are on the way courtesy of Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm, with the first of these films hitting theaters in 2015. The latest issue...
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George Lucas Once Envisioned Four 'Star Wars' Trilogies
Ok, this is an odd one that no one seems to have noticed nor made much fuss about. In the latest issue of Empire magazine detailing this history leading up to "Star Wars: Episode VII," the publication...
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Disney Reportedly Eyeing December 2015 for 'Star Wars Episode VII'
Movies don't get much more summer blockbustery than the Star Wars franchise, so it seemed like a matter of course that Disney would release the upcoming Episode VII -- still earmarked for 2015, in...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Dropped Out of 'Crimson Peak' for 'Star Wars: Episode VII'?
Benedict Cumberbatch dropped out of Guillermo Del Toro's haunted house movie Crimson Peak last month for unknown reasons, but if the rumors are true, he may be re-uniting with his Star Trek Into...
View ArticleJ.J. Abrams to find a compromise between his secrecy and Star Wars reveals
After the bungled "is he/isn't he" reveal surrounding Benedict Cumberbatch's John Harrison/Khan character in STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS put a hole in J.J. Abrams trademark secrecy surrounding projects he...
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Five Actors Rumored for Major 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Role
With Adam Driver seemingly set to play the villain in the next installment of Star Wars, director J.J. Abrams is reportedly winnowing down his shortlist of contenders to play the next generation of...
View Article'Star Wars' Sequels Will Stick With Cinematic Canon, Won't Include Elements...
Yeah, we know. If you're a diehard "Star Wars" fan, this is not really news at all, but confirmation of what you already know. But for the more casual viewer, or those who were perhaps hoping that the...
View Article‘Star Wars’: Rian Johnson to Write, Direct Episode VIII
While production just began on “Star Wars: Episode VII,” Disney and LucasFilm are already focusing on Episode VIII. Sources tell Variety that “Looper” director Rian Johnson is in talks to write and...
View ArticleUPDATED: ‘Star Wars’ Bombshell! Rian Johnson To Write, Direct Next Two Films
UPDATE: Rian Johnson hasn’t commented yet on his monumental new task of mounting the next two Star Wars films. Even better, he has borrowed the spirit of another space film, The Right Stuff, that...
View Article‘Star Wars': Rian Johnson to Write, Direct Episode VIII — But Not IX
Rian Johnson will write and direct the eighth “Star Wars” movie, inheriting the franchise from J.J. Abrams, according to two individuals with knowledge of the director's plans. Johnson will also write...
View Article‘Star Wars: Episode 8′ To Be Written and Directed By Rian Johnson
Just when the future of the Star Warsseries seemed possible to guess, the studio has thrown another curveball. With J.J. Abrams hard at work filming Star Wars: Episode VII , it has been announced that...
View Article'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Sets Director
UPDATED: "Looper" director Rian Johnson will direct the second new film, and write a treatment for the third.
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