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Marvel honcho Kevin Feige to produce Star Wars film for Disney
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September 26, 2019
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Marvel supremo Kevin Feige will develop a new Star Wars movie for Disney.
The Marvel Studios president has been at the helm of 23 blockbuster films – including this year’s Avengers: Endgame, which took $2.9 billion at the box office to unseat Avatar as the highest-grossing film of all time.
According to editors at The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has turned to the producer to work on a new movie in the next phase of the Star Wars universe.
“We are excited about the projects Kathy and the Lucasfilm team are working on, not only in terms of Star Wars but also Indiana Jones and reaching into other parts of the company,” Walt Disney Studios co-chairman and chief creative officer Alan Horn told THR. “With the close of the Skywalker Saga, Kathy (Kennedy) is pursuing a new era in Star Wars storytelling, and knowing what a die-hard fan Kevin is, it made sense for these two extraordinary producers to work on a Star Wars film together.”
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Feige will work with Disney and Lucasfilm head Kennedy on the next phase of the Star Wars franchise, with the current trilogy – which began with J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens in 2015 – set to conclude with The Rise Of Skywalker in December.
Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012. Since then, both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the new Star Wars sequels and spinoffs have garnered global box office success.
Feige joins The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson and Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss on the roster of creative talent earmarked to work on future Star Wars projects.
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Final 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' trailer teases epic ending
Mark Daniell
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October 22, 2019
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Over four decades after it began, George Lucas’ Skywalker saga is coming to an end later this year. And to stoke anticipation for the last instalment in the mainline Star Wars series, Lucasfilm and Disney have released the final trailer for December’s The Rise of Skywalker.
The new clip opens with Rey (Daisy Ridley) running through a forest as Finn (John Boyega) says, “The Force brought us together.”
From there, we get to see plenty of new action-packed scenes, including Poe (Oscar Isaac), Finn and Chewbacca blasting their way through a swath of Stormtroopers, Rebels on horseback, and a fresh faceoff between Rey and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) on top of what appears to be the wreckage of a Death Star as a stormy sea swirls around them. But there’s also a brief sequence which shows the adversaries teaming up to destroy what some are speculating to be Darth Vader’s helmet.
Daisy Ridley is Rey in STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
“People keep telling me they know me… no one does,” Rey says.
“But I do,” comes Kylo’s reply.
Adam Driver is Kylo Ren in STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
After teasing the return of the evil Emperor Palpatine earlier this year, we hear more from the Sith Lord.
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“Long have I waited,” Palpatine says as a camera pans over an empty throne. “And now your coming together… is your undoing.”
Elsewhere, we get a glimpse of First Order TIE fighters speeding towards an icy planet and a squadron of Resistance ships, one of which Vanity Fair pointed out might be The Ghost from the Star Wars Rebels animated series, flanking the Millennium Falcon. Even more tantalizing, though, is a brief look at a Hammerhead Corvette, similar to the one that was featured in Rogue One.
Day one Star Wars fans will want to grab a hanky during a scene in which C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) is being rebooted or powered down when Poe asks him what he’s doing.
“Taking one last look, sir,” Threepio says with a note of sadness, “at my friends.”
Anthony Daniels is C-3PO in STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
There’s also voiceover from Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill): “Confronting fear is the destiny of the Jedi. Your destiny … The Force will be with you.”
“Always,” Carrie Fisher’s beloved Leia Organa adds. Fisher, who died before filming began on Episode IX, appears in the finished film thanks to unused footage she shot for 2015’s The Force Awakens.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director J.J. Abrams promises The Rise of Skywalker will deliver a satisfying conclusion for fans of the 42-year-old franchise.
“This is about bringing this thing to a close in a way that is emotional and meaningful and also satisfying in terms of actually answering (as many) questions as possible,” Abrams says in next month’s issue. “So if years from now, someone’s watching these movies, all nine of them, they’re watching a story that is as cohesive as possible… We went into this thing knowing it has to be an ending. We’re not screwing around.”
Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca, Oscar Isaac is Poe Dameron, Daisy Ridley is Rey and John Boyega is Finn in STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
Still, the new trailer doesn’t offer up any more clues as to the origin of Rey. We likely won’t get an answer to that mystery until the film’s opening day, Dec. 20.
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Original Darth Vader actor David Prowse dead at 85

David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died.
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Before playing Darth Vader, he was famous in Britain in the 1970s for playing the Green Cross Code Man in the TV road safety ads.

Everyone in Britain born after 1970, when it was established, knows the Green Cross Code: "Stop, Look, Listen, Think." We're taught it in schools.

 
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