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'Game of Thrones' creators to write, produce new 'Star Wars' films
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February 6, 2018
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Winter is coming to the Star Wars universe.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators of HBO’s Game of Thrones, will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films.
These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga, which concludes in 2019 with Episode IX, and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson.
“David and Dan are some of the best storytellers working today,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and richness of mythology will break new ground and boldly push Star Wars in ways I find incredibly exciting.”
“In the summer of 1977 we traveled to a galaxy far, far away, and we’ve been dreaming of it ever since,” Benioff and Weiss said in a joint statement. “We are honored by the opportunity, a little terrified by the responsibility, and so excited to get started as soon as the final season of Game of Thrones is complete.”
Season 8 of Game of Thrones is shooting now and is expected to air in 2019.
Benioff and Weiss adapted Game of Thrones from George R.R. Martin’s bestselling books, and the show has since surpassed where the storylines are in the novels.
In an interview with TIME last year, Benioff talked about how the show and books will be different.
“Some people wish we would wait until the books were finished to finish the show, but George works on his own schedule, which is the way any good writer should do it. He shouldn’t be beholden to a TV schedule to finish his novels, that would be completely artificial and would not serve him well. But we do have these actors and they’re getting older, and we have to finish.”
No release dates have been set for the new films, but it will likely be sometime after 2020.
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han solo dies in the end of the new star wars movie.

He is killed by kylo ren who is actually ben solo, han and leia's son.

Finn is not a force sensitive. He gets to wield a lightsaber, but it's a misdirection. Rey is the real new jedi, and she kicks ben's ***. She is as powerful in the end of the movie as luke was in the end of the first trilogy.

Luke is almost not in the movie. He doesn't say or do anything. He is on screen for several seconds.




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A guide to every 'Star Wars' movie and TV show in the works
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The "Star Wars" franchise - including the follow-up film to last December's "The Last Jedi" (with Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill) - is set to expand again. But just how big can it grow? (Jonathan Olley, Lucasfilm Ltd. photo)Lucasfilm Ltd
Every dozen parsecs or so, the “Star Wars” universe seems to expand.
Just one day after the world glimpsed “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke in the first full trailer for this summer’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” Disney announced Tuesday that “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will write and produce a new series of “Star Wars” films.
Disney chief executive Bob Iger also announced Tuesday that the company is developing “a few” “Star Wars” TV series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
So if you’re tracking Disney’s cinematic march forward (cue John Williams and the peal of trumpets), you can see that our screens will be practically overlapping with fresh Lucasfilm fare.
To help you keep track of just how many projects Disney has deployed, here’s a user guide to the “Star Wars” plans:
1. “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Next up is the latest stand-alone story, “Solo,” starring Alden Ehrenreich as young Han, as directed by Ron Howard and written by veteran “Star Wars” scribe Lawrence Kasdan and son Jon. Lucasfilm is hoping to land it safely after original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller got the galactic heave-ho. (Due out: May 25.)
Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson) asks whether Han (Alden Ehrenreich) and Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) want to team up, in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” (Disney-Lucasfilm photo)
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2. “Star Wars: Episode IX”
Stepping in for the booted Colin Trevorrow, “The Force Awakens” filmmaker J.J. Abrams returns to the director’s chair for the final film in the current “Star Wars” sequel trilogy. But will Luke (Mark Hamill) return, now with Force-powers from the afterlife? (Due out: Dec. 20, 2019)
3. The new Rian Johnson trilogy
As fans continue to debate every last burn-it-all turn in Johnson’s “Last Jedi,” the director is guiding the next “Star Wars” trilogy. Johnson will write and direct the first outing in the new triptych, which Lucasfilm has said will exist outside “the episodic Skywalker saga.” When might we see it? It could be years, Padawan.
4. The Benioff/Weiss trilogy
The “Game of Thrones” creators will see their epic HBO series launch its final season next year, according to Variety. The pair had planned on a follow-up HBO series, “Confederate” – which imagined an America in which the South had won the Civil War – but as The Washington Post reported in the fall, Benioff and Weiss were no longer working on that technically still-in-development series after it sparked controversy.
Besides the team’s massive “Game of Thrones” success – they’ve won four Emmys for the series – Benioff received screenplay credits for the critically drubbed 2009 film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” the sword-and-sandals epic “Troy” and the well-received “Brothers.”
So how might they fare in the world of “Star Wars”?
As The Washington Post’s Stephanie Merry wrote Tuesday, Benioff and Weiss “have an excellent track record adapting beloved material for a fanatic audience, not to mention coming up with new narratives within an established universe. But HBO is known for giving its showrunners creative freedom, whereas Lucasfilm is not.”
So we wait to see whether they can retain the faith that Iger and Kennedy are placing in them.
5. Potential spinoffs of other characters
Talk continues to swirl around Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Boba Fett getting their own films, according to such outlets as the Hollywood Reporter. At this point of galloping Disney expansion, who’s to say that each won’t one day get his own TV trilogy?
6. The streaming TV series
Iger’s new announcement comes just several months after he first said a live-action “Star Wars” series would happen. Expect that TV menu to grow at a significant rate, as Disney gets set to launch its own entertainment streaming services by next year.
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Composer John Williams exiting 'Star Wars' after Episode IX
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March 7, 2018
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March 7, 2018 11:03 AM EST
Composer John Williams attends the 40 Years of Star Wars panel during the 2017 Star Wars Celebrationat Orange County Convention Center on April 13, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images for Disney)
Star Wars theme creator John Williams will stop writing scores for the franchise once Episode Ix is complete.
The legendary composer is the brains behind some of film’s most iconic music, crafting scores for movies such as Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana Jones series.
The five-times Oscar winner has been a part of Star Wars since the 1977 original, and has landed an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe for his work on the sci-fi franchise, but having composed all eight of the core films in the series so far, the 86-year-old has announced that he is finally bowing out.
“We know (director) J.J. Abrams is preparing (Star Wars: Episode IX) now that I will hopefully do next year for him,” Williams explained in an interview with U.S. radio station KUSC. “I look forward it. It will round out a series of nine, that will be quite enough for me.”
It was reported in December that Williams would compose the theme for upcoming spin-off Solo: A Star Wars Story, which hits cinemas in May, with British composer John Powell hired to create the movie’s full score. Powell was nominated for an Oscar in 2011 for his work on How To Train Your Dragon.
Williams currently holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for a living person, with 51 nods to his name.
In addition to his departure, it has been announced that Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens and Solo: A Star Wars Story, is also exiting the franchise.
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Jon Favreau to write, produce new ’Star Wars’ series
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March 8, 2018
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March 8, 2018 12:39 PM EST
Jon Favreau arrives at the 70th annual Directors Guild of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton hotel on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif.Chris Pizzello / Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
NEW YORK — That galaxy far, far away keeps expanding. In the latest in a flurry of “Star Wars” spinoffs, the Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that Jon Favreau will write and executive produce a live-action “Star Wars” series for the company’s planned streaming platform.
Disney is readying a streaming service to compete with Netflix, and it has signalled that “Star Wars” will be a major component. The not-yet-named service is planned to launch in late 2019.
“Jon brings the perfect mix of producing and writing talent, combined with a fluency in the Star Wars universe,” said Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm president, in a statement. “This series will allow Jon the chance to work with a diverse group of writers and directors and give Lucasfilm the opportunity to build a robust talent base.”
Favreau has been a Disney regular, having directed the first two “Iron Man” films for Marvel and 2016’s “The Jungle Book.” He also helped produce several “Avengers” movies. He’s currently prepping a “Lion King” remake to be released in 2019.
He has some “Star Wars” experience, too, having provided a voice for “The Clone Wars” animated series. Favreau also has a role in the upcoming Han Solo spinoff “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
“If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn’t have believed you,” said Favreau.
Disney has previously announced that “The Last Jedi” writer-director Rian Johnson is developing a new “Star Wars” film trilogy, and that “Game of Thrones” creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff will write and produce a separate series of “Star Wars” films.
No details or release date were announced for Favreau’s series.
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SPOILER ALERT: Mark Hamill read 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' script backwards
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March 23, 2018
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Actor Mark Hamill, winner of the Empire Icon award, is interviewed in the winners room at the Rakuten TV EMPIRE Awards 2018 at The Roundhouse on March 18, 2018 in London, England.John Phillips / Getty Images
Mark Hamill discovered his iconic Luke Skywalker character wouldn’t survive the latest Star Wars installment after reading the film script backwards.
The veteran actor reprised his Jedi role onscreen for the first time in over three decades for a brief appearance in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first film in the new trilogy, and returned for its sequel, The Last Jedi, which was released in December.
Hamill wanted to learn the fate of Skywalker as soon as he got his hands on the screenplay for the eighth film in the franchise, and it quickly became apparent his character, which he first tackled in 1977’s A New Hope, wouldn’t live to see the end of the movie.
“When they (producers) sent the script for Episode VIII, I turned backwards and started reading from the last page, so I got to the (death scene), and it says in the script, ‘Luke Skywalker dies,’” he shared on breakfast show Good Morning America.
“I was in Nepal (at the time), and I just went, ‘Hmm…’”
Hamill had to keep the plot twist a secret while promoting Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and once the movie hit theatres, he was inundated with Twitter messages from longtime fans expressing their outrage.
“It’s very controversial, there’s people that are not happy,” he acknowledged.
However, the 66-year-old insists he has no hard feelings towards Star Wars bosses: “It’s one of those things where, once it’s finished, you just have to let it go,” he shrugged, admitting he would still jump at the chance to somehow appear in future Star Wars sequels.
Filming The Last Jedi was particularly poignant for Hamill as it also marked the last time he shared the screen with his late co-star Carrie Fisher, who portrayed his movie sister Princess Leia Organa.
Ironically, Skywalker’s last words to Leia are, “No one’s ever really gone,” and that exchange has proved difficult for Hamill to watch following the actress’ demise.
“When I see that scene, it just takes me out of the movie,” he said. “I was saying a final goodbye (as Skywalker), but I didn’t expect that to happen in real life. I wish she could be here now…”
The movie farewell was shot shortly before Carrie’s death in December 2016, after she suffered a massive heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles.
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Margaret Atwood: 'Star Wars' inspired 9/11 terror attacks
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April 11, 2018
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Author Margaret Atwood arrives at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Was the force with the masterminds behind the 9/11 terror attacks?
Canadian author Margaret Atwood seems to think so.
During a recent interview with Variety, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ author stated the terrorist that orchestrated the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center “got the idea from ‘Star Wars.’”
Atwood was asked about women’s marches as the latest wave of activism, and the 78-year-old author became sidetracked and started talking about a film reel in the opera version of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ depicting the Twin Towers blowing up.
The author then insinuated the terrorists were inspired by the George Lucas films.
“Remember the first one? Two guys fly a plane in the middle of something and blow that up? The only difference is, in ‘Star Wars,’ they get away. Right after 9/11, they hired a bunch of Hollywood screenwriters to tell them how the story might go next,” she said. “Sci-fi writers are very good at this stuff, anticipating future events. They don’t all come true, but there are interesting ‘what if’ scenarios.”
It’s unsure whether Atwood is familiar with what goes on in the Star Wars film series. In Episode IV: A New Hope, Rebels attack a weakened spot in the Death Star, while the Millennium Falcon — piloted by Lando Calrissian and Nien Nunb — is flown into another Death Star in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
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